The NCWA Family is deeply sorrowed at the loss of MIT student athlete Andrew “Drew” Esquivel. We offer our deepest condolences and prayers to his parents and entire family.

Drew was not only an outstanding scholar, valued leader and champion wrestler, he was a cohesive force on the wrestling team. Drew wrestled at the 133 pound class and was the Northeast Conference runner-up as well as a 2016 National Qualifier.

He will be sorely missed by his coaches, teammates and the NCWA. Article Here

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The NCWA Vision Forum, held annually in Ft. Lauderdale, and NWCA National Coaches Convention are the perfect marriage of Professional Development and Administrative leadership within the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. The NCWA is the most coach centered governing body within the wrestling community. The Annual Vision Forum, this year scheduled for July 28th - July 30th is one of the ways the association can take relevant coaches input and develop comprehensive, wrestling friendly rules, best practices, scheduling and a long term direction. All NCWA Coaches Invited ....Don't Miss it !! ...VISION FORUM PAGE

Clarksville, Ark: Collegiate Hall of Fame wrestler LeRoy Gardner III has been named the new head men's wrestling coach at the University of the Ozarks, it was announced Thursday by Athletics Director Jimmy Clark.

Gardner, a native of Golden Valley, Minn., has been the head coach at University of Houston-Downtown since 2014, where he was named the 2016 National Collegiate Wrestling Association (NCWA) Southwest Conference Coach of the Year. There, he coached the university's first All-American and Academic All-American. Prior to UH-Downtown, Gardner coached at the United States Naval Academy Preparatory School and Wartburg College. He wrestled at >> READ MORE

Lynchburg, VA: Liberty University's wrestling team, which has won two National Collegiate Wrestling Association (NCWA) National Duals tournament titles in the past five seasons and placed second or third the other three years, has been awarded a one-year bid to host next season's championships, set for Jan. 27-28.

The event has been held at the Dalton (Ga.) Convention Center for the past five seasons. Other cities have put in bids to host it, but ..Read More

Here are the results from all of the finals matches at the 2016 NCWA Championships, with each wrestler's place listed first followed by the scores of the placing matches. The final team standings are at the bottom of the file.

KISSIMMEE, Fla. – Emmanuel College raced past Central Florida and Grand Valley State into first place Friday, but there’s plenty of work ahead for the Lions as they aim for their first NCWA title.

First up for Emmanuel will be two title clashes against the UCF team it leads by 5.5 points in the team standings, and they come at the start of the finals rounds in the 125- and 133-pound championship matches. The Lions, who led the field with eight semifinalists, will be pressured to win those two matches because they face UCF one more time in the 174 final, where the Knights’ Geordan Speiller, a U.S. Open Greco champion and Pan Am Olympic qualifier, is a heavy favorite.

Here are a few notes on the national finalists at the NCWA Champioinships. Their records are current through the tournament.

KISSIMMEE, Fla. – Emmanuel College put a championship stamp on the end of its first season, winning the NCWA Collegiate Cup as the association’s overall champion. The Lions won four of their five finals matches to pull away from Central Florida and Grand Valley State, taking the title with 213 points.

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KISSIMMEE, Fla. – Grand Valley State leads the NCWA Championships after the first day of competition, but second-place Central Florida and perhaps even third-place Emmanuel College may sit in a better position as the tournament reaches its quarterfinal stage on Friday.

The Lakers stormed out of the opening rounds with plenty of bonus points to go along with wins up and down their roster. Grand Valley scored 16 pins as a team Thursday with two other tech falls, giving it close to 30 bonus points and a big part of its Division I-high 82.5 points. Their slim two-point lead over Central Florida (80.5 points) might have been greater had GVSU not missed a handful of opportunities turning in a 1-4 record in head-to-head meetings with the Knights.

The NCWA has released it's qualifiers for the 2016 National Championships. The List of qualifying athletes includes those that placed high enough in their respective Conferences to earn a spot at the Championships as well as the wildcards chosen by their conferences to represent them at a given weight.

This years field of qualifiers is the largest ever at the NCWA nationals and again represents the largest college National Championship in the country with over 500 male and 65 female athletes compared to NCAA DI Qualifying wrestlers at just under 350.

Qualifiers & Brackets Here

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DEARBORN, Mich. - With Henry Ford College’s wrestling program moving to the National Junior College Athletic Association next season, the Great Lakes Conference agreed to give HFC a send-off by allowing them to showcase wrestling on their campus. With top-five finishers earning auto-bids to the National Collegiate Wrestling Association National Championships and an additional eight wildcards to be awarded by the conference coaches, the stakes were very high. With fifteen teams from four states, the National Duals runner-ups in Grand Valley State University, and eight returning All-Americans in the brackets, the GLC put on quite a show.

DUBOIS, Pa. — The Penn State DuBois wrestlers continued their successful roll through the postseason, claiming the NCWA Mid-East Qualifier team championship, hosted by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) on Saturday afternoon. Leading the way for Coach Dave Hoare’s wrestlers were champions Brett Himes (125), Garrett Brown (133), Ty Haines (149) and Bryce Hanley (285).
The team champions, Penn State DuBois outdistanced runner-up UMBC by a whopping 55 points, 174 to 119. Third place was the Penn State University Park wrestling club (108), fourth was Rowan College > More

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BUTTE, Mont. — Grays Harbor College’s first year back in collegiate wrestling got a lot better on Saturday when the Chokers finished with three individual champions and the overall team championship at the NCWA Northwest Conference Championship at Montana Tech University.
Fabian Wickham (125 pounds), Ke’Vionne Robbins (133) and Brek McGaughy (235) won their respective weight classes for GHC, which will send 12 qualifiers into the NCWA Nationals in Kissimmee, Fla. on March 10-12. The Chokers are currently ranked eighth overall in the NCWA Team Rankings.

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Murfreesboro, Tenn. - By placing 17 of its 22 wrestlers in the top five of Saturday's Mid-Atlantic Conference tournament at Middle Tennessee State, Liberty University's wrestling team matched the number of national qualifiers it earned last season, when it captured its first NCWA Grand National Championship.

The Flames had five individual champions to help win their fifth consecutive MAC Tournament title, racking up 185 points followed by runner-up Apprentice > More

2016 NCWA National Championships

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By JOSH PEICK - GRAND RAPIDS : Rick Bolhuis, head coach of the Grand Valley State wrestling team, said early in the wrestling season that he fully expected his team to contend for a national title. Bolhuis' expectation became reality on Jan. 22 and 23, as the Lakers secured a second-place finish at the National Collegiate Wrestling Association national duals in Dalton, Georgia.

DALTON, Ga. – The Central Florida bench was largely quiet during the opening bouts of its championship match, waiting for its strength in the bottom part of its lineup to come through.

There were some nervous moments along the way. But when Chandler Dobler put his opponent on his back early in the 184-pound match, the Knights’ bench erupted as if it knew the match would be in hand. Dobler, top-ranked in his weight class, responded to the surge on cue, pinning Eric Dietz in 1:48 to send UCF on its way to a 32-18 win over Grand Valley State.