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

*Year 2010 Virginia Independent Schools state wrestling tournament results.

Final Team Results for 2009:

1 265.50 St. Christopher's School
2 260.00 Bishop O'Connell High School
3 194.00 Liberty Christian Academy
4 187.00 Cape Henry Collegiate School
5 181.00 Woodberry Forest School
6 145.50 Paul VI Catholic High School
7 136.00 Episcopal High School
8 130.50 Norfolk Academy
9 102.50 North Cross School
9 (tie) 102.50 St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School
11 100.00 Hargrave Military Academy
12 89.00 Bishop Ireton High School
13 84.00 Norfolk Collegiate School
14 76.00 Collegiate School
15 75.00 Blue Ridge School
16 62.00 Bishop Sullivan Catholic High School
16 (tie) 62.00 Virginia Episcopal School
18 60.00 Covenant School
19 59.00 Roanoke Catholic School
20 52.00 Randolph-Macon Academy
21 51.50 Fork Union Military Academy
22 44.00 Potomac School
23 31.00 Peninsula Catholic
24 11.50 Massanutten Military Academy
25 10.00 Benedictine High School
26 8.00 Fishburne Military School
27 3.00 Norfolk Christian
28:  For a list of no-show teams for this tournament, please click here...

Medal Rounds:

Results are listed in ascending order (i.e. 7th/8th are first, 5th/6th are second, 3rd/4th are third and 1st/2nd are last).

Weight: 103
Lahti Bryan #11 Seed (9), Hargrave Military Academy Fall Tony Protogyrou #6 Seed (9), Norfolk Collegiate School, 3:34
Robert Janis #5 Seed (8), St. Christopher's School Fall Josh Trudgeon #10 Seed (10), Woodberry Forest School, ;40
Andrew Atkinson #3 Seed (8), Liberty Christian Academy Fall Elliot Mondragon #4 Seed (10), Bishop Ireton High School, 1:51
Will Mason #1 Seed (9), Cape Henry Collegiate School Dec Taylor Whitt #2 Seed (10), Norfolk Academy, 10-8

Weight: 112
Vinny DiGilio #4 Seed (10), Paul VI Catholic High School Fall John Paul Curtin (10), Benedictine High School, 2:22
Matt Williams #8 Seed (12), Bishop Sullivan Catholic High School Fall Andy Pitts #5 Seed (9), St. Christopher's School, 2:17
Quinn Caslow #6 Seed (9), Episcopal High School Dec Taylor Calley #2 Seed (10), Cape Henry Collegiate School, 6-0
Bryan Whitt #1 Seed (11), Norfolk Academy Fall Jacob Ramos #3 Seed (10), Bishop O'Connell High School, :39

Weight: 119
Dargon Hufhand #6 Seed (9), Liberty Christian Academy M-Dec Joel Hepting #10 Seed (10), Hargrave Military Academy, 11-0
Tyler Haley #3 Seed (11), St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School Fall Kyle Hooper #7 Seed (12), Covenant School, 2:22
Joe Daniels #4 Seed (11), Virginia Episcopal School Dec Brown Massie #8 Seed (11), Collegiate School, 5-0
Kyle Mason #1 Seed (12), Bishop O'Connell High School Dec Scott Cunningham #2 Seed (9), Cape Henry Collegiate School, 10-4

Weight: 125
Kyle Pate #5 Seed (8), Collegiate School Dec Ike Podell #6 Seed (8), North Cross School, 3-2
Hank Couture #4 Seed (12), St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School Fall Christian Reeves #8 Seed (11), Bishop Sullivan Catholic High School, :53
James Young #2 Seed (12), Bishop O'Connell High School M-Dec Jordan Bruckner #7 Seed (11), Liberty Christian Academy, 10-0
Tyler Spangler #1 Seed (12), St. Christopher's School T-Fall Jazz Rozier #3 Seed (11), Cape Henry Collegiate School, 18-1

Weight: 130
Andrew Heiny #7 Seed (11), Hargrave Military Academy Fall Alex Kopylov (12), Norfolk Collegiate School, 1:38
Ben Alberico #6 Seed (10), Norfolk Academy Fall Spencer Shaff #8 Seed (10), North Cross School, 3:18
Marcus Miller #5 Seed (10), Liberty Christian Academy Dec Duke Pickett #3 Seed (10), Woodberry Forest School, 2-1
Nam Dunbar #1 Seed (12), Bishop O'Connell High School Dec Kaison Tanabe #2 Seed (12), Potomac School, 7-6

Weight: 135
Brandon Bunce #5 Seed (12), Covenant School Dec Bill Parker #8 Seed (11), Norfolk Academy, 9-5
David Kirkland #7 Seed (11), Norfolk Collegiate School Fall Bobby Leffew #2 Seed (11), Liberty Christian Academy, 4:31
Don Baumgart #4 Seed (12), Paul VI Catholic High School Dec Michael Blair #9 Seed (11), Collegiate School, 9-2
Jonathan Carpenter #1 Seed (12), Bishop O'Connell High School Dec Rennie Merhige #3 Seed (11), St. Christopher's School, 10-3

Weight: 140
Matt Watson (10), North Cross School Dec Alec Smith (12), Episcopal High School, 9-3
Benen O'Brien #4 Seed (12), Paul VI Catholic High School Dec Eddie Girling #5 Seed (12), Virginia Episcopal School, 5-3
Chris Curtin #3 Seed (12), Bishop O'Connell High School M-Dec Greg Noordanus #6 Seed (9), Cape Henry Collegiate School, 13-5
Bobby Burg #1 Seed (10), Woodberry Forest School Dec David Wesley #2 Seed (10), St. Christopher's School, 6-4

Weight: 145
Conor Furey #6 Seed (12), Bishop O'Connell High School Dec Smith Marks #8 Seed (12), Episcopal High School, 4-3
Ford Schwing #3 Seed (12), Woodberry Forest School Fall Nick Parenti #7 Seed (12), Potomac School, 2:24
Ben Pfotenhauer #5 Seed (11), Paul VI Catholic High School Fall Robbie Burdeaux #4 Seed (12), Liberty Christian Academy, 4:06
Sam Law #1 Seed (11), Cape Henry Collegiate School Dec Loren Phillips #2 Seed (11), St. Christopher's School, 7-4

Weight: 152
Joey Cascio (10), Liberty Christian Academy Dec TJ McLaughlin #6 Seed (12), Bishop Ireton High School, 5-3
Charles Bull #4 Seed (12), Paul VI Catholic High School M-Dec Joseph Kurpiel #7 Seed (11), Randolph-Macon Academy, 16-5
Chris Cirenza #2 Seed (12), Woodberry Forest School Dec Carter Ellis #5 Seed (11), Covenant School, 3-1
Jason Luster #1 Seed (9), Blue Ridge School Fall Stephen Cosgrove #3 Seed (12), Norfolk Collegiate School, 1:10

Weight: 160
Stephen Nusbaum #8 Seed (11), Norfolk Academy Def Charles Jorgensen #6 S (12), Peninsula Catholic
Brent Ring #5 Seed (12), North Cross School Fall Erik Romanin #12 Seed (10), St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School, 3:53
Will Sutherland #2 Seed (12), Woodberry Forest School M-Dec Eric Anderson #4 Seed (12), Randolph-Macon Academy, 15-5
Ted Gottwald #1 Seed (11), St. Christopher's School Dec Daniel Burke #3 Seed (11), Fork Union Military Academy, 7-2

Weight: 171
Edward Custer #6 Seed (11), St. Christopher's School Fall Chad Everett (12), Liberty Christian Academy, 2:19
Mark Rodriguez #5 Seed (12), Bishop Ireton High School Fall Adam Villio #7 Seed (11), Covenant School, 1:25
Win Higginbotham #1 Seed (11), Virginia Episcopal School Dec Edward Pritchard #2 Seed (12), Episcopal High School, 3-2
Mitch Brown #4 Seed (12), Bishop O'Connell High School Dec Chuck Carlton #3 Seed (11), Paul VI Catholic High School, 3-2

Weight: 189
Jamie Willis #6 Seed (12), North Cross School Fall Charley Hilliard #9 Seed (10), Woodberry Forest School, 1:42
Hill Dubose #2 Seed (12), Episcopal High School Fall Jake Ragsdale #10 Seed (11), Collegiate School, 4:52
Jacob Kleckley #4 Seed (11), Hargrave Military Academy Dec Connor Shanahan #5 Seed (12), Roanoke Catholic School, 10-4
Mark Burlee #1 Seed (11), St. Christopher's School Dec Nic Mirenda #3 Seed (12), Cape Henry Collegiate School, 8-4

Weight: 215
Devin Cain #6 Seed (11), North Cross School Dec Garth Harbert (11), Fork Union Military Academy, 5-2
Chris Straubs #4 Seed (12), Bishop O'Connell High School Fall Henry Eshelman #7 Seed (11), Episcopal High School, 4:39
Sammy Ojjeh #2 Seed (11), Paul VI Catholic High School Dec Chris Gill #5 Seed (11), St. Christopher's School, 3-1
Everett Epstein #3 Seed (12), St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School Dec Ethan Hagner #1 Seed (12), Liberty Christian Academy, 5-3

Weight: 285
Dan McGroarty #7 Seed (12), Paul VI Catholic High School Dec Jonathan Nieto #8 Seed (12), Bishop O'Connell High School, 1-0
Chris Jones #6 Seed (12), Hargrave Military Academy Fall Chad Kolumber #5 Seed (11), Woodberry Forest School, :22
Alex Henry #4 Seed (10), Episcopal High School Fall Grant Jones #2 Seed (11), Liberty Christian Academy, 4:09
John King #1 Seed (12), Blue Ridge School Dec Jackson Freeman #3 Seed (12), St. Christopher's School, 8-2

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?

    Anyhow, not all Va. prep schools with wrestling traditions sent contestants to the 2009 states.  Among the no-shows for 2009 were:  Miller School, Tandem Friends H.S. (Charlottesville); Greenbriar Christian Academy (in Chesapeake, and 2nd in the 2005 state tournament); St. Anne’s-Belfield (Charlottesville); 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?  The more people there are who ask them, the more seriously the issue will be taken.

    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

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 2008 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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