There are well over 30 different active teams in the VISWA and 32 participated in the state tourney this year (one more than last year).
Is this a VISWA record?  Stay tuned...

Here are the results for the 2008 Virginia Independent Schools state wrestling tournament championships...

Team Scores:
1) St. Christopher’s: 348.5,
2) Greenbriar Christian 147,
3) Virginia Episcopal School (VES) 145,
4) Norfolk Academy 128,
5) Episcopal High School 124,
6) Bishop O’Connell: 120,
7) Woodberry Forest: 118.5,
8) Norfolk Collegiate 109.5,
9) St. Stephen’s / St. Agnes: 107.5,
10) Randolph-Macon Academy 102.5,
11) Bishop Ireton 93.5,
12) Covenant 83.5,
13) Collegiate 82,
14) Paul VI 79,
15) Cape Henry Collegiate 78,  
16) Bishop Sullivan (previously called Norfolk Catholic) 67,
17) Hargrave Military 65,
18) Roanoke Catholic 59.5,
19) Fork Union Military Academy (FUMA) 53,
20) Norfolk Christian 43.5,
21) St. Anne’s-Belfield (STAB) 38.5,
22) Peninsula Catholic 33,
23) Massanutten Military Academy [a third year program] 28.5,
24) Potomac School 28,
25) Miller School 27.5,
26) Fishburne Military Academy 25,
27) Blue Ridge 17,
28) Lynchburg Christian 17,
29) Benedictine 14,
30) Christchurch 13,
31) Tandem Friends 10,
32) Timberlake Christian 6.

How do these Virginia prep school wrestling (VISWA) individual & team rankings look to you?

*VirginiaWrestling.com´s Virginia private school results, rankings and forums page... 

Are Trinity Episcopal High School & Wakefield School adding wrestling like Westover Christian Academy, Seton School & Massanutten Military Academy fairly recently have, and Timberlake Christian has considered doing?

    Meanwhile, not all Va. prep schools with wrestling traditions sent contestants this year.  Among the no-shows for 2005 were: New Covenant (Lynchburg); Nansemond Suffolk Academy; Eastern Mennonite; North Cross (Roanoke), Seton School  & Trinity Episcopal.  Feel free to e-mail them and ask them if they think they're doing all they should for the sport that doesn't discriminate on the basis of blindness, deafness, amputee status, size, or even gender (as of the 2004 Olympics).   We'd welcome your please letting us know what they say, too.  Winners seldom quit, and quitters seldom win.

    Incidentally, Richmond's Trinity Episcopal High School reinstated football during the Fall of 2004. Why not wrestling, though? They had a National Prep All-American in Will Seger (1984) [4th place, 185 lbs.] and some All Prep and state medalist wrestlers since then. Nevertheless, that Richmond-area nonboarding school which charges at least $12,500 per year in tuition still has no DEFINED plans to reinstate humanity's oldest sport which doesn't discriminate on the basis of blindness, deafness, amputee status, size or gender (as of the Summer of 2004 Olympics in which women's freestyle wrestlers participated).

     What's more influential than questioning from aspiring students and parents, or even from folks in the community who are simply concerned about this seemingly discriminatory decision of Trinity's? Here's their contact data:

http://www.trinityes.org/admissions/financial_aid.php

Might you know any alumni who would call or write in, too? 

    Incidentally, very few people seem to realize just how affordable an education at an independently run school in Virginia can be.   For more information on vouchers (which neighboring Washington D.C. already offers its taxpayers' youth), please click  here .  And if you're interested in asking an elected official in Virginia what (s)he thinks, feel free to click here: http://legis.state.va.us.   Can you believe that Virginia is one of the only states not to even offer "open-enrollment" in exchange for our tax dollars?  

Championship Finals:

103: Robert Friddell (Collegiate) majdec. Michael Slabinski (St. Stephens-St. Agnes), 12-4.
112: Eric Kurtzke (Bishop O'Connell) dec. Joseph Munno (St. Christopher's), 7-1.
119: Tyler Hamblin (St. Christopher's) dec. Charlie Wilson (Fork Union), 5-1.
125: Kevin Donahue (St. Christopher's) maj. dec. Colin Ward (St. Stephens-St. Agnes), 15-2.
130: Sam Redd (St. Christopher's) dec. Vinny deLalla (Norfolk Academy), 19-16.
135: Zach Rolfe (St. Christopher's) techfall. Sam Haga (Norfolk Collegiate), 22-6.
140: David Schafer (St. Christopher's) maj. dec. Jared Reutter (Hargrave Military), 20-7.
145: Hunter McDonald (St. Christopher's) dec. Kris Park (Bishop O'Connell), 6-5.
152: Josh Moses (St. Christopher's) maj. dec. Jonathan Toalson (Cape Henry), 17-3.
160: Dirk Hurrin (St. Stephens-St. Agnes) dec. Hardwick Caldwell (Virginia Episcopal), 3-0.
171: Hunter Higginbotham (Virginia Episcopal) dec. Brandon Nunnally (St. Christopher's), 8-6.
189: Tyler Schmidt (St. Christopher's) maj. dec. Elijah Vidal (Episcopal), 9-0.
215: Kent Patton (Randolph Macon) pin Seth Price (Roanoke Catholic), 2:25.
275: Tim Rose (St. Christopher's) dec. Jake Marcey (Woodberry Forest), 3-1.

Outstanding Wrestler: Hurrin, St. Stephens
Sportsmanship Award: Paul VI H.S.

Third & Fourth Place:

103: Giuliano Freeo (Virginia Episcopal) pin Robert Williams (Bishop Sullivan), 2:51.
112: Corey Reeder (Greenbrier Christian) dec. Cole Mason (Cape Henry), 7-3.
119: Drew Carpenter (Bishop O'Connell) pin Anthony Liskey (Bishop Sullivan), 4:53.
125: Ryan Amorosso (Norfolk Academy) dec. Benjamin Boyd (Norfolk Christian), 6-4.
130: Kwinton Brown (Bishop Ireton) dec. E. Stinson (Woodberry Forest), 4-3.
135: Reade Jacob (Episcopal) dec. Thomas Landon (Virginia Episcopal), 3-2.
140: Conrad Andrews (Paul VI) dec. Nick Dight (Bishop Ireton), 3-2.
145: Brendan O'Neil (Blue Ridge) dec. Kyle Dail (Greenbrier Christian), 2-1.
152: Matt Dickman (Greenbrier Christian) dec. Anthony Soltis (Paul VI), 9-6.
160: Kyle Hastings (Bishop O'Connell) dec. Jarrett Shaffer (Greenbrier Christian), 7-4.
171: Lee Stokes (Greenbrier Christian) dec. Eric Pascuiti (St. Anne's Belfield), 4-3 2OT.
189: Alex Soltis (Paul VI) dec. Sam Gumble (Covenant), 9-5.
215: Kevin Finger (Norfolk Academy) pin Jack Zampolin (St. Christopher's), 1:44.
275: Marcos Maldonado (Virginia Episcopal) pin Clint Fuller (Norfolk Collegiate), 3:36.

Fifth Place & Sixth Place:

103: Mike Shenfish(Randolph Macon) dec. Andrew Murray (Bishop Ireton), 6-4.
112: Jonathan Winoker (Massanutten Mil.) dec. Xavier Hartofiles (Randolph Macon), 7-4.
119: Billy Boyd (Norfolk Christian) pin Tyrex Jones (Woodberry Forest), 2:53.
125: John Lockett (Episcopal) dec. Phillip Glass (Bishop Sullivan), 3-0.
130: Edward Trope (Collegiate) pin Bill Cox (Randolph Macon), 2:30.
135: Zach Burns (Roanoke Catholic) pin Erik Tata (Potomac), 1:56.
140: Curtis Dail (Greenbrier Christian) dec. Andrew Meredith (Norfolk Collegiate), 3-2.
145: Ben Bailey (Covenant) techfall. David Colen (Norfolk Academy), 15-0.
152: Julian Rives (Woodberry Forest) dec. Tim Dean (Bishop Ireton), 5-0.
160: Adam Carr (Cape Henry) dec. Cory Philp (St. Christopher's), 5-3.
171: Chris Mixon (Episcopal) dec. Scott Flanagan (Hargrave Military), 3-0.
189: Andrew Conner (St. Stephens-St. Agnes) dec. Robbie Scott (Norfolk Academy), 12-11.
215: Paul Thieberger (Massanutten Mil.) dec. R.W. Allen (Greenbrier Christian), 4-2.
275: Mike Nusbaum (Norfolk Academy) dec. Alek Deurksen (Covenant), 11-5.

The VISWA finally gets to participate in the
A, AA & AAA Virginia Challenge.  Can we rise to the challenge?

Upcoming VISWA tournament locations:
2006: St. Christopher’s

2006 post season touranment results page (courtesy of MatTalkOnline.com).

How many high school state championships did multiple Olympic wrestling champion Bruce Baumgartner (the U.S. flag bearer in Atlanta in '96) win?   Answer: 0

*Here is the Lehigh "national preps" site.   Here is an alternative National Preps results site.

*site dedicated to coaching job openings (and aspiring coaches) for Virginia and elsewhere...
 
*Year 2000, Year 2001 & Year 2003 National Prep Wrestling tournament  results.  Year 2002 official National Preps page.

( Does it make sense to continue NOT rotating that "national" tournament's venue, while also not counting post-graduates' contributions separately like they last did in 1975 when Blue Ridge H.S. (in St. George, Va.) won it all?  

*Year 1997 Virginia Independent Schools state tournament results.
*Year 2000 Virginia Independent Schools state tournament results.
*Year 2001  Virginia Independent Schools state tournament results.
*Year 2002  Virginia Independent Schools state tournament results.
*Year 2003 Virginia Independent Schools state tournament results.
*Year 2004 Virginia Independent Schools state touranment results.
*Year 2005 Virginia Independent Schools state touranment results.
*Year 2006 Virginia Independent Schools state touranment results.
*Year 2007 Virginia Independent Schools state tournament results.
*Year 2008 Virginia Independent Schools state tournament results.

*Year 1997 AAA state tournament results (won by a Western Branch team with merely 17 participants on its November '96 roster)

List of colleges with wrestling teams (despite Title IX complications)

*A female wrestler from which pioneering Virginia high school became the first female, statewide, ever to win a match in the VISWA state tournament?   Answer: Collegiate's  Sunny Clemons '97.

*Title IX (and how a lack of gender equity has forced our increasingly popular self defense-oriented sport to lose several hundred  official college teams).

*Considering the USA's record-high $7 trillion dollar national debt, which is straining law enforcement budgets nationwide like never before, would self defense-oriented sports (even at the mere exhibition level) not seem more potentially useful than ever to already diet-conscious women?   Don't traveling overseas (especially where handguns are outlawed), and at night here in the USA already involve enough inherent risks for ambitious & career-oriented folks?  Women's amateur wrestling is an Olympics sport now, and may become an NCAA and high school one at the rate it's growing.  Wouldn't that seemingly help our sport rebound from Title IX?

*InterMat´s women´s amateur wrestling site
*TheMat.com's women's amateur wrestling site

*National Collegiate Wrestling Association (NCWA, the rapidly growing college club league).
*Off-season Virginia wrestling tournaments (courtesy of Mat Talk Online)
*Off-season wrestling camps (courtesy of InterMat)
*VirginiaWrestling.com´s private school results & rankings page.  
*Prep Page
*CentralRegionWrestling.com (with a great discussion forum devoted to wrestling in Central Va., etc.)
*InterMat´s very comprehensive Virginia wrestling site.

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