SC Wrestling News 2005-2006


SC wrestlers in the Top 8 at the NHSCA National Open Pre-Season Wrestling Championships
Brantley Hooks (Byrnes) - National Champion - 152 lbs.
Trey Alley (Chesterfield) - 2nd place - 103 lbs.
Chip Hester (North Myrtle Beach) - 4th place - 215 lbs.
Elijah Gregg (Berea) - 5th place - 215 lbs.
Corneilius Selke (Dutch Fork) - 6th place - 125 lbs.
Winfred McMoore (Berea) - 6th place - 171 lbs.
T.T. Prather (North Myrtle Beach) - 7th/8th place - 119 lbs.
John Allen Griswold (Byrnes) - 7th/8th place - 171 lbs.
James Noack (Dutch Fork) - 7th/8th place - 189 lbs.

Click for Results from the NHSCA National Open Pre-Season Wrestling Championships
NHSCA National Open Pre-Season Wrestling Championships - Winston-Salem, NC - Nov. 12-13

WUSA Magazine 2005-06 The Nation's Best High School All Class
#30 in nation at 119 - Dalton Harper - Chesterfield
#23 in nation at 125 - Matt Leach - Eastside
#26 in nation at 152 - Brantley Hooks - Byrnes
#21 in nation at 171 - Bryant Blanton - Summerville
#24 in nation at 171 - J.C. Oddo - Eastside

WUSA Magazine 2005-06 The Nation's Best High School Sophomores and Freshman
#5 in nation at 119 - Dalton Harper - Chesterfield
special mention at 130 Derel Brown - Lugoff-Elgin
#17 in nation at 171 - Jonathan Willard - Loris
#18 in nation at 215 - Robert Quinn - Fort Dorchester

WUSA Magazine 2005-06 The Nation's Best High School Juniors
special mention at 140 - Pat Stanley - Bishop England
special mention at 160 - Winfred McMoore - Berea
#8 in nation at 171 - J.C. Oddo - Eastside
special mention at 189 - Jake Tubbs - Lancaster

WUSA Magazine 2005-06 The Nation's Best High School Seniors
special mention at 103 - Daniel Sarmiento - Stratford
special mention at 112 - Tyler Thompson - Spring Valley
special mention at 119 - Danny Curtis - Chesterfield
#16 in nation at 125 - Matt Leach - Eastside
special mention at 125 - Cornelius Selke - Dutch Fork
#19 in nation at 152 - Brantley Hooks - Byrnes
special mention at 152 - Lance Wachtor - Summerville
#14 in nation at 171 - Bryant Blanton - Summerville


2006 NHSCA Wrestling Championships moving to Pittsburgh and will be conducted March 20-26, 2006
Anderson College Wrestling Preview - National Champion, Careef Robertson, to redshirt
Newberry Wrestling announces the signing of two recruits for the early signing period
USC's wrestling club eyes competitive jump - from the Daily Gamecock
Mitchell Alston of Fort Mill will join Newberry College in fall of 2006

Cal Schoon is now coaching at Ben Lippen School in Columbia. They are a private school
in SCISA, working on reviving the program for the second year. Coach Schoon would like
to get about 200 sq.ft. of mat material for his practice room walls.
Contact Coach Schoon at cschoon@ciu.edu or 803-513-1624 or 803-754-4100 ext. 4197.


Recognition goes to Eli Ashby (Summerville, SC) for his 3rd place National finishes
this summer in Freestyle and Greco Roman:
3rd place Kids National Championships - Free Style - Schoolboy 100 - 6/29/2005 - Greenbay, WI
3rd place Kids National Championships - Greco Roman - Schoolboy 100 - 6/29/2005 - Greenbay, WI
In addition, Eli has a list of Folkstyle Wrestling Accomplishments worth mentioning:
2-Time Southern Nationals Champion in 2004 and 2005; Placed 6th at Reno Worlds in 2005;
2005 Cincinnati Nationals Champion; placed 3rd at AAU Nationals in 2005


Heathwood Hall in Columbia is looking for a used mat to buy or a mat to lease/rent/borrow for the season
Contact info- Coach Hank Wall - 803-479-3607 or 803-252-7693 - wallawalla37@aol.com or hwall@bprwm.com


Darryl Tucker of Summerville - 2005 Assistant Coach-of-the-Year - National award by WUSA Magazine


Newberry Wrestling Organization - Intensive & Technique Training


J.C. Oddo of Eastside competed at Fargo Nationals this summer in Freestyle 171 lbs and took 3rd Place, earning All-American Honors!


National High School Coaches Association (NHSCA) National Open Wrestling Championships June 26-29
125 lbs. - Matt Leach (Eastside) finished 4th in the Nation!
http://www.nhsca.com/events/w20050626_openchamp/post_press.php?event_id=21


Jr. Womens Freestyle National Championships in Fargo this summer
South Carolina had a Silver Medalist - Brittany Delgado!


Former Citadel Bulldog Grappler Qualifies for U.S. World Team Trials
Anthony Brooker finished fourth in the 121-pound Greco-Roman class at the U.S. Open Wrestling Championships
and qualified for the 2005 U.S. World Team Trials in Ames, IA. A 2000 graduate of The Citadel at 141 pounds,
Brooker is an officer in the Air Force and wrestles on the All-Air Force team. This is the second year in a row
that Brooker has advanced to the U.S. World Team trials.


SC Wrestler, David Patten, gains third Super Bowl ring


Brooker named TheMat.com Wrestler of the Week
9/8/2005
John Fuller/TheMat.com
Note: To nominate a wrestler for TheMat.com Wrestler of the Week, send the athlete's name,
accomplishments for the week and career accomplishments to John Fuller at jfuller@usawrestling.org
Anthony Brooker (Santa Barbara, Calif./U.S. Air Force) has been named TheMat.com Wrestler of the
Week for the week of August 30-September 5.
Each week, TheMat.com will select an Athlete of the Week, based upon performance within wrestling
for that week. The selection committee will consider any level of wrestling, from youth programs through
the Senior level. The announcement will be made each week on Wednesday.
Brooker, a Captain in the U.S. Air Force and a helicopter pilot, was sent to New Orleans last week to help
with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
His duties include transporting ill patients from hospitals, perform search and rescue missions, make food
and water drops and recover bodies.
"There's only one way to help and I'm going to put 100 percent into it," Brooker said before he began his
mission. "We're definitely going to be in a dangerous situation, flying above a city we're not familiar with
... if my mind was somewhere else, it would be a detriment to my crew and the people I'm flying with."
Brooker placed fourth at the 2005 U.S. World Team Trials and the 2005 U.S. Nationals. He also placed fourth in
last year’s Armed Forces Championships. His mission began at a time when he was hoping to attend the
U.S. Greco-Roman National Team Training Camp in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Brooker attended The Citadel in college, where he was coached by Rob Hjerling. He earned a degree in
Psychology from there.


Brooker, from wrestling match to rescue helicopter on Gulf Coast
By MERI-JO BORZILLERI
The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - This weekend, Anthony Brooker was supposed to be sweating in a singlet
at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, part of USA Wrestling's world team training camp.
Instead, it's likely Brooker has saved a few lives before you ate Sunday morning's breakfast.
A helicopter pilot for the U.S. Air Force, Brooker on Saturday was scheduled to fly above a flooded
New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, plucking people from rooftops and inside houses.
He has been deployed to help those still stranded from the ravages of Hurricane Katrina.
His duties read like a hero's to-do list: transport ill patients from hospitals; perform search and
rescue; make food and water drops; recover bodies.
It's a mission that might last two weeks or two months. Brooker doesn't know. He's ranked No.4 nationally
in Greco-Roman wrestling in the 55kg/121-pound class. He's an Olympic hopeful for 2008.
On Friday night, he was simply hopeful.
On a layover before arriving in Mississippi, Brooker, 27, spoke rapid-fire, the adrenaline audible through
the telephone line.
His Huey helicopter is infrared equipped. He and a crew of four or five people will fly with night-vision
goggles, "so you can find people under houses at night, or in houses, or on roofs.
"Anybody that's still alive that's able to give any signal with heat we can find them," he said.
Helicopters will be flying 24 hours a day, in shifts of two or three hours at a time.
Before he left from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Friday, Brooker and crew were given
9-millimeter pistols. They will enter hostile territory. People, Brooker has heard, have been shooting
at helicopters and aid workers.
"It's crazy," he said.
Even crazier is carrying a pistol on a humanitarian mission.
Brooker has been in the military for five years. He attended The Citadel, a military college. His dad
recently retired after 26 years with the U.S. Marine Corps. Still, the pistols make him uncomfortable.
"I'm not really one to use a weapon that often. I don't even think we should be carrying them," he said.
"That sends the wrong message. ... When you use a show of force, it gives them an us-against-them principle."
As surreal as this sounds, a military man reluctant to carry a gun, it's no less surreal than what Brooker is facing.
He's been deployed - not to Iraq, but to New Orleans.
"I definitely didn't think I was going to be in a situation where there's martial law in my own
country," he said.
Still, "I am excited about it. I've been to 41 states. To help people really in need, it's really
serious down there. I didn't think it'd get to the point where there are people starving to death."
Brooker's usual job is security - protecting intercontinental ballistic missiles at Vandenberg. He
also has piloted helicopters over California brush fires, lowering water buckets and supplies.
But he can't think about that now, or about wrestling.
"There's only one way to help and I'm going to put 100 percent into it," he said. "We're definitely
going to be in a dangerous situation, flying above a city we're not familiar with ... if my mind was
somewhere else, it would be a detriment to my crew and the people I'm flying with."
Brooker placed fourth in the 2004 Olympic trials, and has spent months at a time in Colorado Springs
at wrestling camps. He hopes to be transferred to Colorado Springs in February, so he can train full
time. He dreams of making the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Funny how life works sometimes. Turns out, Brooker's one moment in time is now.
"You only live once," he said, "and there's people out there dying."