*Year 2000 and Year 2001 National Prep Wrestling tournament  results.  Year 2002 official National Preps page.

Here are the results for the 2008 Virginia Independent Schools state wrestling tournament championships...

Virginia Independent Schools State Wrestling Tournament (VISWA) results
February 18th-19th, 2000
@Woodberry Forest (Orange, Virginia)

  Team scores: Woodberry Forest (WF) 305, St. Stephen’s / St. Agnes (SSA) 240, Bishop O’Connell (BOC) 198.5, Bishop Ireton (BI) 155.5, Collegiate (Col) 137, St. Christopher’s (SC) 123, Norfolk Academy (NA) 121.5, Paul VI (PVI) 121, Fork Union Military Academy (FUMA) 108, Episcopal (E) 82.5, Blue Ridge (BR) 76, Benedictine (Ben) 70, Potomac (P) 64.5, Catholic (C) 63, Virginia Episcopal (VES) 62.5, Norfolk Collegiate (NC) 62, Hargrave Military (HMA) 58.5, St. Anne’s-Belfield (SAB) 58, Lynchburg Christian (LC) 54, Randolph-Macon Academy (R-MA) 51.5, Peninsula Catholic (PC) 51, Cape Henry Collegiate (CHC) 50.5, Christchurch (C) 29, Miller School (MS) 26, North Cross School (NC) 25.5, Fishburne Military Academy  (FM) 12, Covenant (Cov) 10,  Tandem (T) 0, New Covenant (Lynchburg): 0, Nansemond Suffolk 0, Eastern Mennonite 0, Trinity Episcopal (TE) 0.0.  (NOTE: not all Va. prep schools with wrestling traditions sent contestants this year.  Meanwhile, Massanutten Military Academy recently added wrestling and will compete at the VISWA's starting in February of 2003.)

Individual Championships:
103 -- Steve Sica (Col) d. Joey Carpenter (PVI) 5-2
112 -- John DeVillo (PVI) d. Peter Donohoe (SSA) 7-1
119 -- Chris Miosi (SSA) d. Dan Yates (BOC) 3-0
125 -- Matt Horton (SSA) d. Brian Juanarena (PC) 8-2
130 -- David Hicks (STC) d. Jay Kent (SSA) 3-0
135 -- Keith Williams-Parker (BOC) p. Ryan Robinson (SAB) 3:56
140 -- Reed Carpenter (BOC) d. Taino Ortis (WF) 16-7
145 -- Jase Glenn (WF) d. Leif Lindhjem (NA) 3-2
152 -- Patrick Boswell (Col) d. Taliaferro Oates (WF) 3-1
160 -- Reed Shelger (WF) d. Frank Thomas (NC) 10-6
171 -- Earle Walker (FUMA) d. Ted Zimmerman (WF) 4-2
189 -- J.D. Patton (WF) p. Dash Pierce (E) :20
215 -- Bryan Lester (WF) d. Jimmy Hovis (STC) 5-4
Hwt. -- Charles Payne (WF) p. Kris Savage (BOC) 1:18

Outstanding wrestler:  J.D. Patton (189 lbs.)  [4 pins in under 4 minutes]
Team Sportsmanship Award:  Woodberry Forest

Consolation Finals:
103 -- Jeff Mendoza (BI) d. Zach Weisburg (NA) 3-2
112 -- Richard Meredith (NC) p. Will Kerrigan 1:41
119 -- Mike Dulinawka (FUMA) d. Ken CHernauska (SAB) 6-3
125 -- Dan Finn (BI) d. Mike Kellam (NA) 705
130 -- Sean Carney (BI) d. Hunter Moore (VES) 9-4
135 -- Ben Guerrina (WF) p. Nevin Carr (CHC) :19
140 -- P.J. Worosz (PVI) p. Ben Erickson (SSA) 2:01
145 -- Nick Cornwell (Ben) d. Bo Hurst (Col) 6-5
152 -- Robert Forrest (NA) p. Taylor Brown (VES) 2:59
160 -- Robert Reed (SSA) d. Mike McGuire (BOC) 3-1
171 -- Tim Meyers (BR) p. Mike Kuchler (BI) 1:44
189 -- John Campbell (SSA) d. Joe Yates (BOC) 10-4
215 -- Mike Riordan (BI) d. David Buckingham (BOC) 6-4
Hwt. -- Brian Finnegan (SSA) p. Jordan Anderson (LCA) :55

*Year 2000 and Year 2001 National Prep Wrestling tournament  results.  
*Year 2001  Virginia Independent Schools state tournament results.
*Year 2006 (etcetera) Virginia Independent Schools state touranment results.
*Year 1997 Virginia Independent Schools state tournament results.

How do these Virginia prep school wrestling (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?

  Are Trinity Episcopal High School & Wakefield School adding wrestling like Westover Christian Academy, Seton School & Massanutten Military Academy fairly recently have, and Timberlake Christian has considered doing?

    Richmond's Trinity Episcopal High School will reinstate 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 $12,500 per year in tuition still has no DEFINED plans to reinstate humanity's oldest sport which doesn't discriminate on the basis of blindness, deafness, amputee status, size or gender (as of this Summer's 2004 Olympics in which women's freestyle wrestlers will participate).

     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?  

List of colleges with wrestling teams (despite Title IX complications)

   *site dedicated to coaching jobs available in Virginia and elsewhere...

   On January 19th & 20th, the 2002 Middle School AAU State Wrestling Tournament took place in Richmond, Virginia @ Collegiate.  Details...

   Folks will now get to watch an increasing quantity of amateur wrestling matches live (or archived)
online!

   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

*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 $5.9 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)
*InterMat´s very comprehensive Virginia wrestling site.
*VirginiaWrestling.com´s private school results & rankings page.  
*Prep 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 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)

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