There are well over 30 different active teams in the VISWA and 31 participated in the state tourney this year.  

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

Final Team Results for 2006:

1. St. Christopher's (SC) 271.50; 2. Bishop O'Connell (BOC) 180.00; 3. Woodberry Forest (WF) 167.00; 4. Collegiate (Col) 137.00; 5. Episcopal (E) 130.00; 6. Hargrave Military Academy (HMA) 129.00; 7. Norfolk Academy (NA) 126.00; 8. Norfolk Collegiate (NC) 111.50; 9. Virginia Episcopal (VE) 91.50; 10. Roanoke Catholic (RC) 86.00; 11. Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) 80.00; 11. (tie) Bishop Ireton (BI) 80.00; 13. St. Stephen's/St. Agnes (SSA) 78.00; 14. Cape Henry Collegiate (CHC) 75.00; 15. Randolph-Macon Academy (R-MA) 72.00; 16. Paul VI (PVI) 63.00; 17. Bishop Sulli van Catholic (BSC) 60.00; 18. Covenant (Cov) 55.00 19. Benedictine (B) 50.50; 20. Norfolk Christian (NCS) 39.00; 21. Fishburne Military (FMS) 36.00; 22. Potomac (P) 35.00; 23. Liberty Christian Academy (LCA) 31.00 24.Christchurch (ChrC) 25.00; 25. Greenbrier Christian (GC) 21.50; 26. Peninsula Catholic (PC) 17.00; 27. Blue Ridge (BR) 16.00; 28. Fork Union (FU)14.50; 29. Miller School (MS) 13.00; 30. Tandem Friends (TF) 9.00; 31. St. Anne's-Belfield (STAB) 4.00

Updated list of Team Pages (in the order of last year's placers):

1) St. Christopher’s
2) Greenbriar Christian
3) Virginia Episcopal School
4) Norfolk Academy
5) Episcopal High School 
6) Bishop O’Connell
7) Woodberry Forest
8) Norfolk Collegiate
9) St. Stephen’s / St. Agnes
10) Randolph-Macon Academy
11) Bishop Ireton
12) Covenant
13) Collegiate
14) Paul VI
15) Cape Henry Collegiate
16) Bishop Sullivan (previously called Norfolk Catholic)
17) Hargrave Military
18) Roanoke Catholic
19) Fork Union Military Academy
20) Norfolk Christian
21) St. Anne’s-Belfield
22) Peninsula Catholic
23) Massanutten Military Academy [a fourth year program]
24) Potomac School
25) Miller School
26) Fishburne Military Academy
27) Blue Ridge
28) Lynchburg Christian
29) Benedictine
30) Christchurch
31) Tandem Friends
32) Timberlake Christian

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS:

103: Bryan Whitt (NA) d. Kyle Mason (BOC), 7-4; 112: Nam Dunbar (BOC) md. Cole Mason (CH) 17-8; 119: Tyler Hamblen (SC) md. Jonathan Carpenter (BOC) 11-2; 125: Eric Kurtzke (BOC) d. Tyrek Jones (WF) 9-2; 130: Kevin Donahue (SC) d.Vinny DeLalla (NA) 5-4; 135: Joseph Munno (SC) d. Michael Kamouyerou (MMA) 12-7; 140: Grant Giordano (NA), p. Zach Burns (RC), 1:11; 145: Craig Philp (SC) p. Medford Sorrells (VE) 5:06; 152: Zach Rolfe (SC) md. Charlie Anderton (RMA) 13-4; 160: Adam Carr (CHC) d. Jonathan Price (C) 6-0; 171: Andy Halonen (HMA) p. Tim Dean (BI) 5:11; 189: Alex Soltis (PVI) d. Andrew Conner (SSA) 7-0; 215: Ashton Gilmore (SC) d. Kurt Carter (WF) 2-1; 275: Jake Marcey (WF) d. Paul Thieberger (MMA) 4-0

THIRD-PLACE MATCHES:

103: Michael Blair (Col) d. Sam Law (CHC) 3-2; 112: Ryan Jahn (CS) d. Michael Slabinski (SSA) 4-3; 119: Anthony Liskey (BSC) d. Patrick Kelley (HMA) 10-6; 125: Benjamin Boyd (NCS) md. Matt Talbott (SC) 13-4; 130: Kenzan Tanabe (P) d. Daniel Gottwald (E) 3-1; 135: Drew Carpenter (BOC) d. Reade Jacob (E) 7-2; 140: Eric Liebendorfer (WF) d. Stephen Shaw (E) 5-0; 145: Tom Brame (Cov) md. Edward Trope (Col) 11-3; 152: Buddy Curtis (NC) p. Kevin Hairston (RCS) 3:44; 160: Gianni Freeo (VE) md. Robert Bauer (WF) 14-2 171: Clark Gottwald (SC) d. Thomas Price (Col) 4-2 ; 189: Andy Wilson (ChrC) p. Preston Snow (E) 2:32; 215: Seth Price (RC) d. Zack Austin (HMA)13-7; 275: Ian Davidson (SSA) d. Jon Conard (RMA) 4-1

Other Placers...

Previously:

QUARTERFINALS:

103 -- Brian Whitt (NA) p. Andy Drake (LCA) 1:17; Michael Blair (C) p. Tyler Campbell (RC) 3:00; Sam Law (CHC) d. Travis Hamblen (St.C) 7-2; Kyle Mason (BC) tf. Robert Williams (BSC) 2:43

112 -- Nam Dunbar (BC) p. Andrew Murray (BI) 1:14; Ryan Jahn (CS) d. Adam Radan (HMA) 10-2; Michael Slabinski (St.S/St.A) d. Spencer McKenna (E) 10-3; Cole Mason (CHC) d. Nick Molloy (St.C) 6-4

119 -- Tyler Hamblen (St.C) p. David Kirkland (NC) 1:44; Robert Friddell (C) d. Jonathan Winoker (MMA) 12-4; Patrick Kelley (HMA) tf. Kaison Tanabe (P) 4:00; Jonathan Carpenter (BC) d. Anthony Liskey (BSC) 5-3

125 -- Eric Kurtzke (BC) tf. Guliano Freeo (VES) 5:21; Benjamen Boyd (NCS) d. Phillip Glass (BSC) 7-3; Matt Talbott (St.C) p. Johnny Motley (E) 4:28; Tyrek Jones (WF) d. Lance Long (B) 7-6

130 -- Kevin Donahue (St.C) d. Mitch Brown (BC) 7-2; Daniel Gottwald (E) d. Vance Van Horn (NC) 5-3; Kenzan Tanabe (P) d. Colin Ward (St.S/St.A) 12-0; Vinny DeLalla (NA) p. Andrew Mertins (C) :46

135 -- Drew Carpenter (BC) d. Tom Markey (NC) 15-4; Joseph Munno (St.C) d. Will King (VES) 11-3; Reade Jacob (E) p. Trey Goggins (C) 4:32; Michael Kamouyerou (MMA) d. Zack Drake (St.S/St.A) 9-3

140 -- Grant Glordano (NA) p. Ray Dinunzio (BI) 3:10; Stephen Shaw (E) p. Jordan Wittig (FM) 2:15; Eric Liebendorfer (WF) d. Jonathan Cook (R-MA) 10-4; Zach Burns (RC) p. J.P. Welch (St.C) 1:49

145 -- Craig Philp (St.C) d. Alex Vergara (BI) 7-1; John Curtin (BC) d. Curtis Dall (GCS) 3-1; Medford Sorrells (VES) d. Tom Brame (CS) 4-2; Edward Trope (C) tf. William Blair (WF) 3:53

152 -- Zach Rolfe (St.C) tf. Jerrit Reed (HMA) 4:27; Kevin Hairston (RC) d. Byron Bice (VES) 13-6; Buddy Curtis (NC) p. Mike Tato (BC) 2:35; Charlie Anderton (R-MA) d. Daniel Eareckson (TFS) 14-5

160 -- Adam Carr (CHC) p. Ryan Logan (B) 1:48; Robert Bauer (WF) d. Tom Baxter (BC) 7-2; Gianni Freeo (VES) d. James Waltersdorf (BRS) 6-2; Jonathan Price (C) d. Peter Gumble (CS) 11-3

171 -- Thomas Price (C) p. Robby McCanna (LCA) 4:27; Tim Dean (BI) p. Townes Mozer (WF) 1:14; Andy Halonen (HMA) p. Jenner Wood (E) 2:54; Clark Gottwald (St.C) d. Phil Kruass (VES) 10-4

189 -- Alex Soltis (P) p. Kevin Marshall (MS) 1:29; Preston Snow (E) d. Andy Wilson (CC) 9-5; Andrew Conner (St.S/St.A) d. Ryan Cosgrove (NC) 8-6; Thomas Johnson (MMA) d. Lew Lloyd (VES) 6-5

215 -- Seth Price (RC) p. John Thieberger (MMA) 2:45; Ashton Gilmore (St.C) d. Zack Austin (HMA) 4-1; Josh Gadell (P) p. Nich Kendall (E) 5:04; Kurt Carter (WF) d. Robbie Scott (NA) 9-7

275 -- Jake Marcey (WF) p. Tylor Morton (BRS) 1:31; Dan Matheny (P) d. Jon Conard (R-MA) 4-2; Jon Sterner (HMA) p. Toby Desch (C) 1:03; Paul Thieberger (MMA) d. Ian Davidson (St.S/St.A) 6-3

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 2006 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?  

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

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...
 
Here are the 2006 National Prep tourney results.   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?   Can you imagine the differences if, for example, Virginia got to host it?

*Year 2000, Year 2001, Year 2003 and National Prep Wrestling tournament  results.  Year 2002 official National Preps page.  

*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 $8.2 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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