News and features about USA Wrestling and the entire sport of wrestling are posted on a daily basis on
TheMat.com (
www.themat.com). Keep up with all of the excitement by visiting
TheMat.com. In each issue of USA Wrestler, we will
provide short news and notes on the organization and the wrestling scene for those who may have missed what’s going on.
USA WRESTLING LAUNCHES
THEMAT.TV VIDEO PORTAL After a month of a soft launch, USA
Wrestling has officially announced the release of
TheMat.TV, an online video portal aimed at showcasing USA Wrestling events nationwide. In addition to event videos and inter-
views,
TheMat.TV will showcase senior and junior-level athletes and coaches. It will serve as the online archive for all major USA Wrestling national and region- al events.
TheMat.TV will also be the landing
page for USA Wrestling event webcasts with fans able to watch live wrestling streamed at over 25 events, and growing, annually. Also featured on
TheMat.TV will be the
USA Wrestling Weekly show, which is released on the internet and on television stations nationwide. The popular MatChat podcast series also finds a home on
TheMat.TV. In June,
TheMat.TV was soft launched,
but during that time, the site has provided fans with live webcasts from the Southern Plains Regionals in Hays, Kansas, U.S. World Team Trials in Oklahoma City, Okla., and the Cadet and Junior National Duals.
TheMat.TV’s Live Events section will
be a landing page for USA Wrestling live events as well as events streamed from state associations and partner websites from around the country. At the recent Junior Duals, six different states streamed their matches live and all those streams were available on
TheMat.TV’s Junior Duals Live Events page. Fans can also watch
TheMat.TV via
their mobile devices. A mobile site is available for devices like the iPhone, iPad and android and blackberry-based
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smartphones.
SIX REPEAT ON FIRST TEAM AS ASICS GIRLS ALL-AMERICANS The nation’s best girls high school wrestlers are being honored with the announcement of the 11th annual ASICS Girls High School All-American Wrestling Team. The 2011 First Team members will be recognized at the ASICS/Vaughan Junior National Championships in Fargo, N.D. in July.
There were six members of the 2010
First Team who were selected as First Team members again in 2011: Kayla Brendlinger of Slippery Rock High School (Pa.), Jenna Burkert of Marquette High School (Mich.), Erin Golston of Marquette High School (Mich.), Roni Goodale of Bettandorf High School (Iowa), Julia Salata of Canton High School (Mich.) and Emily Webster of Cameron High School (Mo.) The ASICS Girls High School All- American Wrestling Team is selected by a nationwide panel of wrestling experts. It is the only national all-star team for which female high school wrestlers competing on all four grade levels are eligible. Athletes from across the nation were con- sidered for their achievements in high school wrestling, as well as the major post-season freestyle and folkstyle com- petitions. Burkert, Golston and Spiegel are mem-
bers of the USOEC women’s wrestling program at Northern Michigan Univ. and attend Marquette High School in Michigan. Burkert hails from Rocky Point, N.Y.
Four First Team members were All- Americans on the Senior level by placing at the 2011 U.S. Open in Cleveland, Burkert, Golston, Brendlinger and Amanda Hendey of Beaumont High School (Calif.) The First Team featured nine different wrestlers who won national scholastic- style titles this year, by claiming gold medals at either the 2011 USA Wrestling Folkstyle Nationals in Oklahoma or the 2011 USGWA National Championships in Michigan. The USA Wrestling Folkstyle National champions on the First Team were Burkert, Goodale, Hendey,
McFarland, Salata, Webster, plus Kayla Miracle of Culver Academy (Ind.) The USGWA National champions on the First Team were Borrow, Goodale and Herkelman. Six First Team members won USA
Wrestling ASICS/Vaughan Junior National titles in the summer of 2010, including Augello, Brendlinger, Salata, Spiegel and Webster, plus Krista Revelle of Jefferson West High School (Kansas). The Second Team was also star-stud-
ded, led by ASICS/Vaughan Junior Nationals champions Brieana Delgado of Hillcrest High School (S.C.), Miriam Moreno of Hereford High School (Texas), Chrissy Chow of Punahou High School (Hawaii) and Mindy Chow of Punahou High School (Hawaii). USA Wrestling Folkstyle National champions were Demi Strub of St. Leon East High School (Ind.) and Alexia Moreno of Turlock High School (Calif.). USGWA National champi- ons included Erin English of North Roylaton High School (Ohio), Ashley Iliff of Newton High School (N.J.) and Jakeitha Baker of Raleigh High School (N.C.)
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