There are well over 30 different active teams in the VISWA and 31 participated in the state tourney in 2006.  

Final Team & Individual Results for 2007:

    1. St. Christopher's 283.5, 2. Bishop O'Connell 216, 3. Woodberry Forest 172, 4. Norfolk Academy 167, 5. Paul VI 120.5, 6. Bishop Ireton 118, 7. Episcopal 115.5, 8. Norfolk Collegiate 113, 9. Virginia Episcopal 109, 10. Collegiate 105.5, 11. Cape Henry Collegiate 94, 12. Hargrave Military 87, 13. Liberty Christian 86, 14. Potomac 82, 15. Fork Union Military 72.5, 16. Bishop Sullivan 71.5, 17. Randolph-Macon Academy 70, 18. Blue Ridge 66, 19. St. Stephen's/St. Agnes 65, 20. Benedictine 62, 21. Massanutten Military 41, 22. Roanoke Catholic 39, 23. North Cross 33, 24. Peninsula Catholic 30, 25. Covenant 28, 26. Fishburne Military 24, 27. Miller 18, 28. Christhchurch 4, 29. Tandem 3

Some Team Pages (in the order of 2005'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 (Norfolk Academy) p. Brown Massie (Collegiate) 1:03
112: Tyler Spangler (St. Christopher's) md. Cole Mason (Cape Henry Collegiate) 9-1
119: Aaron Runzo (Norfolk Academy) d. Nam Dunbar (Bishop O'Connell) 6-4
125: Anthony Liskey (Bishop Sullivan) d. Kaison Tanabe (Potomac) 9-7
130: Tyler Hamblen (St. Christopher's) d. Kenzan Tanabe (Potomac) 10-3
135: Kevin Donahue (St. Christopher's) d. Vinny deLalla (Norfolk Academy) 10-4
140: Erik Kurtzke (Bishop O'Connell) p. Matt Talbot (St. Christopher's) 4:30
145: Joseph Munno (St. Christopher's) p. Drew Carpenter (Bishop O'Connell) 5:20
152: John Curtin (Bishop O'Connell) p. Charlie Anderton (Randolph-Macon) 1:03
160: Craig Philp (St. Christopher's) d. Thomas Baxter (Bishop O'Connell) 11-5
171: Tim Dean (Bishop Ireton) d. Clarke Gottwald (St. Christopher's) 10-3
189: Alex Soltis (Paul VI) p. Lew Lloyd (Va. Episcopal) 1:11
215: Robbie Scott (Norfolk Academy) d. Nick Kendall (Episcopal) 9-7 (OT)
285: Jake Marcey (Woodberry Forest) d. Ian Davidson (St. Stephen's/St. Agnes) 3-0

CONSOLATION FINALS:

103: Doug Kellermeyer (Cape Henry) d. Dan Desenberg 4-3 (Blue Ridge)
112: James Young (Bishop O'Connell) d. Ben Alberieco (Nor folk Academy) 8-2
119: David Wesley (St. Christopher's) d. Adam Radan (Hargrave) 5-3
125: Patrick Kelley (Hargrave) d. Michael Slabinski (St. Stephen's/St. Agnes) by default
130: Jonathan Carpenter (Bishop O'Connell) d. Johnny Motley (Episcopal) 8-2
135: Tyrek Jones (Woodberry Forest) p. Chase Lynch (Bishop Sullivan) 2:52
140: Gulianno Freeo (Va. Episcopal) d. Tom Markey (Norfolk Collegiate) 8-5
145: Matt Medick (Woodberry Forest) d. Andrew Mertins (Collegiate) 4-3
152: Ted Gottwald (St. Christopher's) p. Chris Boucher (Bishop Ireton) 2:03
160: Seabrook Whaley (Woodberry Forest) md. Buddy Curtis (Nor. Col) 15-4
171: Gianni Freeo (Va. Episcopal) d. Cavan Carr (Nor. Collegiate) 10-4
189: Adams Gillis (Woodberry Forest) d. Alex Keagy (Randolph-Macon) 4-2
215: Josh Riding (Benedictine) d. Ethan Hagnar (Liberty Christian) 9-4
285: John Thieberger (Mass. Military) p. Tyler Morton (Blue Ridge) 1:40

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 2007 were:  Greenbriar Christian Academy (in Chesapeake, and 2nd in the 2005 state tournament);  St. Anne’s-Belfield; Norfolk Christian; New Covenant (Lynchburg); Nansemond Suffolk Academy; Eastern Mennonite; 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.  Those schools have had wrestling participants in the past but evidently weren't sufficiently supportive of the latest potential generation of them.  Why not?

    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 2009 Virginia Independent Schools state tournament results.
*Year 2010 Virginia Independent Schools state wrestling 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 Virginia private school results, rankings and forums 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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