Mental preparation is key to success in wrestling. For four-time Junior Nationals All-American Tirza TwoTeeth and her old teammates at Ronan High School in Montana, this preparation includes smudging. Smudging is a traditional ceremony common to many I...
Editor’s Note: This season, USA Wrestling Leader members are given a free subscription to the digital edition of WIN Magazine. This story, which appeared in the December 2025 edition, is an example of the four feature stories in each WIN Magazine editi...
With the first semester across college campuses coming to an end, there will be an influx of talent as we head into the second half of the NCAA wrestling season.There is a wide variety of reasons many top wrestlers had to sit out of the competition sce...
HAYS, Kan. – Four athletes in USA Wrestling’s Elite Accelerator Program (EAP) took the mats at the 2025 Bob Smith Open held over the weekend at Gross Memorial Coliseum at Fort Hays State, with Benjamin Smith leading the charge as 174-pound champion. S...
As I wrote in last week’s notebook, duals were going to be all the rage in Week Five of this women’s college wrestling season. And boy did that prove to be the case. (Not that it took Nostradamus-level foresight to make such a prediction.) We saw top 1...
CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (December 8) -- United World Wrestling has officially confirmed the host city for the 2026 U20 World Championships and finalized the competition dates for the 2026 Senior World Championships.In addition, the host for 2026...
USA Wrestling and the wrestling community at large celebrate the life of dedicated wrestling supporter and superfan Murry I. Gurfein, who recently passed away at his home after 78 spirited years of life. Murry was a dedicated father to his son Eric, wh...
NEWTON, Iowa — WIN’s Dec. 9 updated Tournament Power Index (TPI), Top-20 Dual Teams and Individual Rankings, presented by Cliff Keen Athletic, saw lots of movement, especially for individuals, after an action-packed weekend that featured the annual Cli...
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Koelzer won the 60 kg gold medal in Greco-Roman at the 2025 Haparanda Cup held in Sweden. USA Wrestling Athlete of the Week is presented by U.S. Air Force Special Warfare.
Par terre gets way more entertaining when Senior World Team Members, Macey Kilty and Alexandria Glaude, are mic’d up.
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