32 different teams participated in the state tourney in 2005 and 27 did this year...
(For a list of no-shows, please click here...)

Final Team Results for 2008:

1. 281.5 St. Chris
2. 246.0 Woodberry Forest
3. 193.0 Bishop O'Connell
4. 172.0 Liberty Christian
5. 147.0 Bishop Ireton
6. 144.0 Episcopal
7. 132.0 St. Stephen's & Ste. Agnes'
8. 122.0 Norfolk Academy
9. 121.0 Norfolk Collegiate (Highest medium school)
10. 119.0 Cape Henry Collegiate
11. 111.0 Paul VI
12. 101.5 Collegiate
13. 66.0 North Cross (Highest small school)
14. 64.0 Blue Ridge
15. 60.0 Randolph-Macon
16. 58.0 Virginia Episcopal
17. 50.0 Roanoke Catholic
18. 47.5 Fork Union
19. 38.0 Benedictine
20. 36.0 Hargrave Military
21. 34.5 Bishop Sullivan
22. 36.0 Hargrave Military
23. 26.0 Peninsula Catholic
23. 26.0 Potomac
25. 25.0 Massanutten Militrary
26. 21.0 Fishburne Military
27. 0.0 Miller School
(For a list of no-shows, please click here...)

How often do quitters win? 

   Are Trinity Episcopal High School & Wakefield School adding wrestling like John Paul The Great, Massanutten Military Academy, Norfolk Christian, Westover Christian Academy, & Seton School fairly recently did, or made strides towards doing, and like Timberlake Christian has considered doing?

    Meanwhile, not all Va. prep schools with wrestling traditions sent contestants to the 2008 states.  Among the no-shows for 2008 were:  Tandem Friends H.S. (Charlottesville); Greenbriar Christian Academy (in Chesapeake, and 2nd in the 2005 state tournament); St. Anne’s-Belfield (Charlottesville); Norfolk Christian; Christchurch School (Tidewater); New Covenant (Lynchburg); Nansemond Suffolk Academy; Eastern Mennonite (Harrisonburg); Seton School  & Trinity Episcopal.  Feel free to e-mail and / or call 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 DEFINITE 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?  

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

     The three outstanding wrestlers for 2008 were Nam Dunbar (125) and Eric Kurtzke (140) from Bishop O'Connell, and Clarke Gottwald (171) from St. Christopher's. Gottwald also won the award for the most pins in the least amount of time.

Individual Placewinners [including their conference(s)]

103

1. Taylor Whitt - Norfolk Academy (Prep / TCIS)
2. Dan Desenberg - Blue Ridge School (CAC)
3. Will Mason - Cape Henry Collegiate School (TCIS)
4. James Peebles - Woodberry Forest School (Prep)
5. Joel Hepting - Hargrave Military Academy (VIC)
6. Elliott Mondragon - Bishop Ireton High School (WCAC)
7. Wilkes Booth - Liberty Christian Academy (VIC)
8. Jacob Patrick - Roanoke Catholic School (VIC)

112

1. Bryan Whitt - Norfolk Academy (Prep / TCIS)
2. Duke Pickett - Woodberry Forest School (Prep)
3. James Young - Bishop O'Connell High School (WCAC)
4. Scott Cunningham - Cape Henry Collegiate School (TCIS)
5. Eric Richardson - Liberty Christian Academy (VIC)
6. Tyler Haley - St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School (IAC)
7. Brown Massie - Collegiate School (Prep)
8. Andrew Georgeiff - Bishop Ireton High School (WCAC)

119

1. Tyler Spangler - St. Christopher's School (Prep)
2. Justin Murphy - St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School (IAC)
3. Jazz Rozier - Cape Henry Collegiate School (TCIS)
4. Ian Mondragon - Bishop Ireton High School (WCAC)
5. Kyle Mason - Bishop O'Connell High School (WCAC)
6. Marcus Miller - Liberty Christian Academy (VIC)
7. Jamie Costa - Massanutten Military Academy (CAC)
8. Chris Risch - Collegiate School (Prep)

125

1. Nam Dunbar - Bishop O'Connell High School (WCAC)
2. Aaron Runzo - Norfolk Academy (Prep / TCIS)
3. Trey Tarr - St. Christopher's School (Prep)
4. Drew Mason - Cape Henry Collegiate School (TCIS)
5. Bobby Leffew - Liberty Christian Academy (VIC)
6. Ethan Axenfeld - Bishop Ireton High School (WCAC)
7. Andrew Heiny - Hargrave Military Academy (VIC)
8. Jaber Doraney - Randolph-Macon Academy (DAC)

130

1. Bobby Burg - Woodberry Forest School (Prep)
2. David Wesley - St. Christopher's School (Prep)
3. Jonathan Carpenter - Bishop O'Connell High School (WCAC)
4. Kaison Tanabe - Potomac School (MAC)
5. Michael Slabinski - St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School (IAC)
6. Robbie Burdeaux - Liberty Christian Academy (VIC)
7. Galen McCleary - Episcopal High School (IAC)
8. Ben Alberico - Norfolk Academy (Prep / TCIS)

135

1. Johnny Motley - Episcopal High School (IAC)
2. Loren Phillips - St. Christopher's School (Prep)
3. Chris Curtin - Bishop O'Connell High School (WCAC)
4. Sam Law - Cape Henry Collegiate School (TCIS)
5. Drew Middleditch - Woodberry Forest School (Prep)
6. Tim Shen - Roanoke Catholic School (VIC)
7. Don Baumgart - Paul VI Catholic High School (WCAC)
8. Caleb Halsey - Liberty Christian Academy (VIC)

140

1. Eric Kurtzke - Bishop O'Connell High School (WCAC)
2. Spencer McKenna - Episcopal High School (IAC)
3. Rennie Merhige - St. Christopher's School (Prep)
4. Charles Bull - Paul VI Catholic High School (WCAC)
5. Tom Markey - Norfolk Collegiate School (TCIS)
6. TJ McLaughlin - Bishop Ireton High School (WCAC)
7. Charles Blevins - Roanoke Catholic School (VIC)
8. Morgan Moskal - North Cross School (VIC)

145

1. Andrew Mertens - Collegiate School (Prep)
2. Chris Cirenza - Woodberry Forest School (Prep)
3. Brent Ring - North Cross School (VIC)
4. Conor Furey - Bishop O'Connell High School (WCAC)
5. Kevin Molloy - St. Christopher's School (Prep)
6. Smith Marks - Episcopal High School (IAC)
7. Ben Pfotenhauer - Paul VI Catholic High School (WCAC)
8. Matthew McCormick - Massanutten Military Academy (CAC)

152

1. Kevin Issacs - St. Christopher's School (Prep)
2. Gulianno Freeo - Virginia Episcopal School (VIC)
3. Stephen Cosgrove - Norfolk Collegiate School (TCIS)
4. Ford Schwing - Woodberry Forest School (Prep)
5. Michael Maroulis - Randolph-Macon Academy (DAC)
6. Chris Boucher - Bishop Ireton High School (WCAC)
7. Tim Beasley - Fork Union Military Academy (Prep)
8. Alex Fort - Benedictine High School (CAC)

160

1. Ted Gottwald - St. Christopher's School (Prep)
2. Andrew Blythe - Norfolk Collegiate School (TCIS)
3. Winston Tesi - Liberty Christian Academy (VIC)
4. Win Higginbotham - Virginia Episcopal School (VIC)
5. Brandon Bunce - The Covenant School (VIC)
6. Trent Parrish - Blue Ridge School (CAC)
7. Henri Noordanus - Cape Henry Collegiate School (TCIS)
8. Trevor Crest - Episcopal High School (IAC)

171

1. Clarke Gottwald - St. Christopher's School (Prep)
2. Chuck Carlton - Paul VI Catholic High School (WCAC)
3. Jonny Fitzsimons - Woodberry Forest School (Prep)
4. David Mongellow - Randolph-Macon Academy (DAC)
5. Jake Ragsdale - Collegiate School (Prep)
6. Ben Drumm - Fishburne Military School (VIC)
7. Edward Pritchard - Episcopal High School (IAC)
8. Pat Weingart - Bishop Ireton High School (WCAC)

189

1. Wilson Maclin - Woodberry Forest School (Prep)
2. Brian O'Donnell - Bishop Ireton High School (WCAC)
3. Russ Leggett - St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School (IAC)
4. Ryan Schoepke - Benedictine High School (CAC)
5. Robby McCanna - Liberty Christian Academy (VIC)
6. George Jamerson - Collegiate School (Prep)
7. Hill Debose - Episcopal High School (IAC)
8. Sammy Ojjeh - Paul VI Catholic High School (WCAC)

215

1. Ethan Hagner - Liberty Christian Academy (VIC)
2. Jackson Freeman - St. Christopher's School (Prep)
3. Everett Epstein - St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School (IAC)
4. Daniel Hughes - Paul VI Catholic High School (WCAC)
5. Chris Straubs - Bishop O'Connell High School (WCAC)
6. Luke Schwartz - Woodberry Forest School (Prep)
7. Reed Barton - Collegiate School (Prep)
8. Zach Johnson - Norfolk Academy (Prep / TCIS)

285

1. John King - Blue Ridge School (CAC)
2. T. Moore Evins - Woodberry Forest School (Prep)
3. Donald Brown - Norfolk Collegiate School (TCIS)
4. Pat Ryan - Bishop Ireton High School (WCAC)
5. Alex Henry - Episcopal High School (IAC)
6. Nick Demith - Fork Union Military Academy (Prep)
7. James Williams - St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School (IAC)
8. Lon Nunley - St. Christopher's School (Prep)

How do the latest Virginia prep school wrestling (VISAA / VISWA) individual & team rankings look to you?

*VirginiaWrestling.com´s Virginia private school results, rankings and forums page... 

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 or some warm-weather state 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 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)

*Year 2002 Virginia Middle School AAU State Wrestling Tournament results.

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 $9 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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