USA Wrestler Photo Contest
Top left: 9-year-old Kody Johansen of Team Hawks of Hiawatha, Kansas works for a fall in a recent tournament. Amy Lowdermilk photo. Top right: 8-year-old Andrew Tucker of the Germantown
Wrestling Club in Maryland tosses an opponent at a tournament in Damascas, Maryland. Diana Barcelo photo. Bottom left: Cody Pfau of the OKCU Gator Women’s RTC locks up a spladle on Erin Golston of the NYAC in the 48 kg finals of the Women’s University Nationals. Austin Bernard photo. USA Wrestler is seeking your best wrestling photography for publication in a future issue of the magazine. Other photos may be posted on
TheMat.com or on USA Wrestling Weekly. USA Wrestling reserves the right to publish all materials submitted for the Photo Contest with no restrictions! Mail photos to: Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling, 6155 Lehman Dr., Colorado Springs, CO 80918. E-mail photos to:
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ASICS picks All-America Team
IRVINE, Calif. – ASICS America Corporation is pleased to announce the 30th annual ASICS All-America Wrestling Team and honors a record five repeat athletes as members of the First Team. The ASICS All-America Team is selected by a nationwide
panel of wrestling experts. Members of the First Team, who earned a combined 36 State and National Prep Championships, as well as the ASICS Wrestler of the Year, will be honored prior to the finals of the ASICS Vaughan USA Wrestling Junior & Cadet National Championships in July in Fargo, ND, of which ASICS is the title sponsor.
“This team represents the very best wrestlers in our schools
today,” said Neil Duncan of TW Promotions wrestling agency for ASICS America. “We are so proud to have these young men, with their talent and work ethic, representing us. They clearly have the potential to be the World and Olympic champions of the future.”
The ASICS America All-America Team includes eight wrestlers at each of the 14 high school weight classes – the First, Second, and Third Teams and five Honorable Mention selections. To be considered, a wrestler must have competed during the scholastic season, and all team members were selected at the weight class at which they competed, or would have competed, in their state tournament or the National Prep Championships this year.
Senior Zahid Valencia (182) of Bellflower, CA St. John Bosco earned his third First Team selection. Four other wrestlers, sen- ior Devin Brown (113) and sophomore Spencer Lee (120) of Murrysville, PA Franklin Regional, senior Nick Piccinnini (126) of East Setauket, NY Ward Melville and senior Lance Benick (195) of Fridley, MN Totino-Grace, round out the group of repeat selections. Piccinnini and Benick finished their high school careers as four-time state champions. Among the other selections to the First Team was junior Mark Hall (170) of Apple Valley, MN, a five-time state champion. 2015 ASICS All-America First Team
106 Cade Olivas, Fr , St. John Bosco HS, Bellflower, CA 113 Devin Brown*, Sr, Franklin Regional HS, Murrysville, PA 120 Spencer Lee*, So, Franklin Regional HS, Murrysville, PA 126 Nick Piccinnini*, Sr, Ward Melville HS, East Setauket, NY 132 Jared Prince, Sr, University HS , Palm Harbor, FL 138 Ke-Shawn Hayes, Sr , Park Hill HS, Kansas City, MO 145 Michael Kemerer, Sr, Franklin Regional HS, Murrysville, PA 152 Isaiah White, Jr, O.P.-River Forest HS, Oak Park, IL 160 Alex Marinelli, Jr, Graham HS, St. Paris, OH 170 Mark Hall, Jr, Apple Valley HS, Apple Valley, MN 182 Zahid Valencia*, Sr, St. John Bosco HS, Bellflower, CA 195 Lance Benick*, Sr, Totino-Grace HS, Fridley, MN 220 Jordan Wood, Jr, Boyertown HS, Boyertown, PA 285 Michael Johnson, Sr, Montini HS, Lombard, IL * - denotes repeat selection
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