Monday, May 9, 2011
Annual Fundraising Campaign
This season Dearborn Heights Wrestling will spend $3,000 on guest clinicians for weekend clinics. Please help support our organization by donating here.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Wrestling, Gymnastics Dropped
Cal State Fullerton Terminates Wrestling, Women's Gymnastics Programs
Apr. 8, 2011
Cal State Fullerton today announced that its intercollegiate wrestling and women's gymnastics programs will be terminated.
The action was considered at the end of the 2009-10 academic year, but the programs were given the opportunity to continue operating if they could fund their own annual budgets. Extensive fund-raising campaigns enabled them to compete in 2010-11 but came up short of a subsequent goal of a two-year funding commitment by a Mar. 1 deadline given to them.
All pre-existing scholarships will be honored until the student-athletes' eligibility has expired. Wrestlers and gymnasts who wish to transfer to other schools will be given blanket releases.
"It is with great sadness that we must eliminate two great Olympic sports that have a long history at Cal State Fullerton," said Director of Athletics Brian Quinn. "Unfortunately, we just do not have the resources to continue sports that are not sponsored by the Big West Conference.
"We want to thank wrestling Coaches Dan Hicks and Risto Marttinen and gymnastics Coaches Jill Hicks and Richard Gishi for their dedication and hard work for the student-athletes. We also want to thank our many donors for their support in helping keep the programs over the past few years."
Wrestling dates to 1968 at Cal State Fullerton. Dan Hicks, who arrived from Oregon State in 2002-03, is only the fourth head coach in the program's history. The Titans never won a team championship but boast 31 conference champions, 12 Div. I and 3 Div. II All-Americans and 87 NCAA Div. I national qualifiers including at least one in the 26 seasons prior to this one.
Gymnastics dates to 1976 when the program achieved national attention from its outset, winning its first 71 matches. Fullerton won the 1979 national championship (AIAW) and had three second-place (2 AIAW, 1 NCAA) and five third-place (3 AIAW, 2 NCAA) finishes to go with 10 conference championships and nine regional titles, all between 1976 and 1995. The program produced 34 All-Americans but none since 1989. Jill Hicks is only the fourth head coach in this program's history, moving up from an assistant's role for the 2007 season.
Apr. 8, 2011
Cal State Fullerton today announced that its intercollegiate wrestling and women's gymnastics programs will be terminated.
The action was considered at the end of the 2009-10 academic year, but the programs were given the opportunity to continue operating if they could fund their own annual budgets. Extensive fund-raising campaigns enabled them to compete in 2010-11 but came up short of a subsequent goal of a two-year funding commitment by a Mar. 1 deadline given to them.
All pre-existing scholarships will be honored until the student-athletes' eligibility has expired. Wrestlers and gymnasts who wish to transfer to other schools will be given blanket releases.
"It is with great sadness that we must eliminate two great Olympic sports that have a long history at Cal State Fullerton," said Director of Athletics Brian Quinn. "Unfortunately, we just do not have the resources to continue sports that are not sponsored by the Big West Conference.
"We want to thank wrestling Coaches Dan Hicks and Risto Marttinen and gymnastics Coaches Jill Hicks and Richard Gishi for their dedication and hard work for the student-athletes. We also want to thank our many donors for their support in helping keep the programs over the past few years."
Wrestling dates to 1968 at Cal State Fullerton. Dan Hicks, who arrived from Oregon State in 2002-03, is only the fourth head coach in the program's history. The Titans never won a team championship but boast 31 conference champions, 12 Div. I and 3 Div. II All-Americans and 87 NCAA Div. I national qualifiers including at least one in the 26 seasons prior to this one.
Gymnastics dates to 1976 when the program achieved national attention from its outset, winning its first 71 matches. Fullerton won the 1979 national championship (AIAW) and had three second-place (2 AIAW, 1 NCAA) and five third-place (3 AIAW, 2 NCAA) finishes to go with 10 conference championships and nine regional titles, all between 1976 and 1995. The program produced 34 All-Americans but none since 1989. Jill Hicks is only the fourth head coach in this program's history, moving up from an assistant's role for the 2007 season.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Academic Honor for wrestler
April 6, 2011
Walnut Creek, Calif. - Cal State Fullerton redshirt freshman Bryce Whitehead has been selected to the Pac-10 Wrestling All-Academic Team for 2010-11.
The 165-pounder from Sprague High School in Salem, Oregon, earned second-team honors for his work in the classroom and on the mat. He is a mechanical engineering major with a 3.19 overall grade-point average. He had an 8-12 record at 165 pounds while going 0-4 at 174 this season.
The complete team is attached.
Walnut Creek, Calif. - Cal State Fullerton redshirt freshman Bryce Whitehead has been selected to the Pac-10 Wrestling All-Academic Team for 2010-11.
The 165-pounder from Sprague High School in Salem, Oregon, earned second-team honors for his work in the classroom and on the mat. He is a mechanical engineering major with a 3.19 overall grade-point average. He had an 8-12 record at 165 pounds while going 0-4 at 174 this season.
The complete team is attached.
Monday, April 4, 2011
U.S. OPEN PREVIEW: World medalists Herbert, Dlagnev, Zadick Seek National Freestyle Titles
The return to the mat of 2008 Olympic gold medalist Henry Cejudo and 2008 Olympian Steve Mocco has provided a big boost to the freestyle program.
2009 World bronze medalist Tervel Dlagnev has continued to improve and progress. He looks poised to make a run at a World medal this year, but is in a tough weight class in the U.S. at heavyweight.
2009 World silver medalist Jake Herbert also has looked strong this year and is ready to make a run at his second medal.
Mocco, Dlagnev and Herbert are among the top wrestlers expected to compete at the U.S. Open in Cleveland.
Olympian and World silver medalist Mike Zadick also is expected to be back.
NCAA champion Jordan Burroughs of Nebraska is ready to make a splash in freestyle this season as well.
The U.S. is looking to crown its first World champion in freestyle since Bill Zadick won Worlds in 2006. This is a big year with the World Championships serving as a qualifier for the 2012 Olympics Games.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Annual Funraising Campaign
Did you know that Call State Fullerton University Wrestling Program will spend $7000 to paint the wrestling room? Please support our team by donating.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Fullerton Update
Update on Cal State Fullerton:
I am sure many of you have wondered what the status of the Cal State Fullerton Wrestling Program is going to be for next year. We have been working with the Athletic Director to come up with a strategy to help make his decision easier as to what he can do to help keep the threatened wrestling program. Although we (the Wrestling Community) had done some amazing work the past 2 years to raise money to fund wrestling and gymnastics, it seemed to be too little. The Vice President, Dr. Palmer, seemed to want more than we could raise. He asked for two years of budget in cash, by March 1st, 2011. Not only was that discouraging but it really discounted all that the wrestling community had done to help be part of the solution.
Dr. Palmer retired in December. A new Vice President has been appointed who is much more positive, had a son who wrestled at Fullerton, and wants to look for solutions to stabilize the entire athletic department, that has been sinking faster than the Titanic.
Brian Quinn, our athletic Director told me on Wednesday, "I do not want to cut any sports". He has finally been able, with VP Si Abrego, to get to the president, Milton Gordon and begin working on a plan that would right the ship and allocate the necessary funding to athletics for all the teams to be out of survival mode. Brian told me, he, Si Abrego and the President discussed not singling out any sport to provide a short term fix to a much bigger department wide problem.
Brian, was hopeful that we would know more in the next week or two. He realizes that for recruiting purposes, program development , etc. we need a definite long term solution soon.
I wanted to say thank you to all of you who have supported our efforts to fight for college wrestling in California. Your phone calls and emails have been making a difference. The key decision makers are hearing and starting to respond. The positive nature of the calls and correspondence has amazed then. They fully expected to be bashed by the wrestling community. What they need right now is continued positive interaction, encouragement to find solutions and stories about how significant the sport of wrestling is to California and the western United States.
$250,000 year is not much money to keep wrestling alive a Fullerton. We have a great facility, in a great location, with great high school wrestling, and a state with great history.
The fact that we are a Regional Olympic Training Center for USA Wrestling allows us to offer automatic residency to out of state incoming freshman and transfers.
Our tuition is very cheap compared to most states. This alone is very attractive to many out of state, state champs in states with no four year college wrestling.
We could have a great program at Cal State Fullerton if we had long term stability.
Call to action:
Continue to consider donating to the program. Many of the people who committed to the program thru the Lasting Impact Pledge drive have been waiting to see what will happen. Rightly so. If and when the AD and president come up with a plan, we will need to be ready to help if he asks us to finish what we committed to for this year,10-11. A fully funded program like Iowa State has a budget of $750,000. ASU $650,000. In order to help our kids we may need to supplement the scholarship budget. My goal would be that the school pays for all expenses of having the program and money raised by us would go to providing the full 9.9 scholarships that would make us competitive with all the programs in the country.
Second, let them know we want the program to survive. Following are the key decision makers. Send a new wave of support calls and e-mails.
CONTACTS
Others to email Marsha Smith at The OC Register masmith@ocregister.com
Athletic Director Brian Quinn: bquinn@fullerton.edu; 657-278-2777 P.O. Box 6810, Fullerton, Ca. 92834
Vice President Si Abrego: Son Wrestled at Fullerton. Son is a big donor to the program. Si may be taking over responsibility for supervising Athletics as VP of Student Affairs when current VP retires in Dec 2010
sabrego@fullerton.edu; 657-278-3221 800 North State College Blvd.,Fullerton, Ca 92831
President Milton Gordon: mgordan@fullerton.edu; 657-278-3456 800 North State College Blvd.,Fullerton, Ca 92831
Our roster for next year includes five state champs, many who red shirted this year. We had 17 out of state champs interested in visits to campus and have delayed them until we know a definite answer about our future. With stability we can be a great program.
Again,Thank you!!! For being a great support to Risto and I and all the wrestlers at Cal State Fullerton.
Coach Hicks
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Risto Marttinen
Assistant Wrestling Coach
California State University, Fullerton
Rmarttinen@fullerton.edu
Phone: 657-278-8550
Fax: 657-278-5957
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