USAW's Richard Immel among media association award winners
By Jason Bryant The National Wrestling Media Association, founded in 1989 as a member group of journalists, photographers and media spe- cialists, announced its 2013-14 award winners at its annual meeting at the NCAA Championships in Oklahoma City, Okla. New Media Specialist: Richard Immel, USA Wrestling
A native of Oklahoma and a former Sooner wrestler, Richard Immel is in his second year at USA Wrestling and in his short time in Colorado Springs, Colo., he’s continued to evalvate the company’s social media reach as well as implemented weekly Google Hangouts with international and college teams and per- sonalities. Immel also provides audio commentary and video streaming support for USA Wrestling events. Division I SID of the Year: Bryan Johnston, Virginia Tech Johnston, the Associate Director of Athletic Communications
at Virginia Tech has been an active publicist for a number of Hokie sports, but he’s been able to develop and promote wrestling through the last three head coaches via releases, social media and weekly press operations. Small College SID of the Year: Tom Nelson, St. Cloud State Nelson has worked at St. Cloud State University since 1996 and has been one of the top media relations professionals for the Husky wrestling program. Combined with the school’s social media resources, Nelson has provided fans and the media com- plete and quick information regarding wrestling. Journalist of the Year: Joe Kania, The Star-Ledger/
NJ.com Joe Kania is in his second year covering wrestling for The
Star-Ledger in the ultra competitive high school wrestling beat in the Garden State. Kania, a graduate of Bloomsburg University, started Garden State Wrestling prior to working at The Star- Ledger.
Broadcaster of the Year: Mark Bader, Flowrestling Originally starting with Flocasts under the PureFight brand, Missouri graduate Mark Bader has been actively working broad- casts nationwide since 2008. Bader wrestled at 125-pounds for the Tigers and provides an entertaining and excitable brand of
commentary. He’s traveled the nation and the world for Flo and is one of the most recognizable figures in the wrestling media. Photographer of the Year: Mark Beshey (The Guillotine) Long the source for wrestling news in Minnesota, The Guillotine also brings wrestling fans in the North Star State fan- tastic photos provided by Mark Beshey. Publication of the Year: The Predicament (Iowa) Founded in 1970, The Predicament has been the source for wrestling news in Iowa at the college and high school level for over 40 years. Currently run by Jim Thompson and Wyatt Schultz, the print publication also supplements its content with online news as well as rankings, results and news for all levels of wrestling in Iowa, from kids tournaments to senior-level freestyle and Greco-Roman. This is the second time The Predicament has won the award. It previously won in 1998-99. Website of the Year:
Trackwrestling.com One of the biggest innovations in wrestling in the last decade as been the implementation of Trackwrestling into the sport’s landscape. Founded by Justin Tritz in Wisconsin as a means to simplify state tournament seeding, Trackwrestling has handled some of the biggest wrestling tournaments in the country and has even integrated matside electronic scoring, scoreclocks and seamless integration with live video streams to provide fans and the media up-to-the-second live updates. Jay Hammond Memorial Special Recognition Award This year’s honorees are Tim “T.R.” Foley and Jamie Moffatt. Both authored books in the past year detailing the fight for the inclusion of wrestling in the Olympic Games. Foley’s book, Full Circle, is a photographic timeline of the events that started when the IOC announced wrestling would be dropped from the Olympic program. Moffatt’s book, co-written by Craig Sesker of USA Wrestling, was titled Saving Wrestling: The Inside Story of the Sport’s Epic Fight, broke down some of the inner workings of FILA and detailed the power struggle at the top and what changes hap- pened in order for wrestling to return to the Olympic Games.
USA WRESTLING NATIONAL EVENTS 2013-14 SCHEDULE May 2-4
Northeast Regionals
May 8-10 May 16-18 May 16-18 May 22-25 May 23-25
Northern Plains Junior/Senior Regionals Body Bar Women’s Nationals Central Regional Championships FILA Cadet and University Nationals Southeast Regional Championships
May 29-June 1 Southern Plains Regionals May 30-31
June 10-14 June 12-14 June 13-14 June 15-21 June 23-25 June 24-28 July 19-26
Schooboy National Duals Cadet National Duals
Beach National Championships
SB/C/J East Stroudsburg, Pa. J/S Waterloo, Iowa FJ/FC/K Irving, Texas
J/C/K/SB Indianapolis, Ind. U/FC Akron, Ohio J/C/SB/K Atlanta, Ga.
J/C/SB/K Dodge City, Kan. S/J/C/SB Carolina Beach, N.C.
May 30-June 1 U.S. World Team Trials-Men’s/Women’s Freestyle S/W Madison, Wis. May 30-June 1 FILA Junior World Team Trials June 4-8
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Northern Plains Kids and Cadet Regionals U.S. World Team Trials-Greco-Roman Cliff Keen West Kids and Cadet Regionals ASICS Kids National Championships Junior National Duals
ASICS Cadet and Junior Nationals
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C/J Madison, Wis.
SB Indianapolis, Ind. C
C/SB/K Pocatello, Idaho SB/K Orem, Utah J
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