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Congratulations Presbyterian College Women's wrestling - National Preseason #510-25-24 Release
NWCA Releases their NCAA Women's Preseason Coaches Poll
Manheim, PA—The Tornado of King University sits atop the NWCA's Preseason Coaches Poll for NCAA Women's Wrestling. King, coming off a third-place finish at the 2024 National Collegiate Women's Wrestling Championships, narrowly edged out Iowa, last year's National Champions, 107 to 103. North Central, a perennial power, comes in third with 83 points, while Mckendree (38 points) and Presbyterian (32 points) round out the top five.
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See original announcement below, that goes along with this one:Attention coaches of girls wrestling programs:
The SCWOA is hosting their annual pre season scrimmage at River Bluff High School on November 23, 2024.
This year we are expanding our girls only mats to 2. If you have want to bring your girls to participate in the scrimmage, please contact Scott Harmon at coachsh@bellsouth.net or 803-331-3923.
Cost will be $5 per wrestler. Each girl will get a minimum of 3 matches.
Note: If you are already bringing your boys team to the scrimmage- your female wreslters are already included in your entry fee.
The annual SC Wrestling Officials Association Pre Season Scrimmage will be held on Saturday, November 23rd at River Bluff High School.
This team is a dual meet format. Each team will wrestle 3 matches.
Cost for the event is $100 payable to River Bluff High School to cover facility use, custodians, trainers and security.
We will also have 1-2 girls mats. The goal is to get each girl a minimum of 3 matches.
If your boys team is participating in the event there is no additional cost for the girls.
If you want to bring a girls team only we can do that as well. Cost will be $5 per girl.
All participants (boys and girls) must be 9-12 grades.
Important information is below with a letter to all wrestling coaches from the SCWOA.
Hello Coaches:
I hope your school year is off to a good start. We are once again hosting our association’s pre season scrimmage.
As of this date we are planning to host the pre season scrimmage at River Bluff High School on Saturday, November 23, 2024.
This event will not count as one of your 16 dates.
We will be running 5 dual mats again this year and plan to have a total of 20 teams participating. If you are receiving this email your team participated in the event in 2022 and are invited back this year. We ask that you are able to commit a minimum of 10 wrestlers to participate. We will have 5 mats for boys duals and will once again have a 6th mat for females (HS girls only). We may run a 7th mat for girls depending on the number of girls we have participating.
Each team will wrestle in a pod of 4 teams and will remain on the same mat during the entirety of the event. Each team will wrestle 3 matches. Each round will have a set time limit of 1 hour and you will wrestle as many individual matches as possible during that time period.
There will be no weigh ins. Please get weights on Friday and match up with the opposing team within one weight class. Skin and nail checks will be conducted prior to your first match of the day. Head gear is required. Mouth guards are required if the wrestler has braces.
The cost of the event is $100 payable to River Bluff High School to cover costs for custodians, trainers and security.
Admission fee will be $5 per adult. Students and children are free. Concessions will be provided. There will also be a hospitality room for coaches that will provide lunch.
Please let me know if you have any questions and I look forward to seeing you all on the mat this season!
Please email me at coachsh@bellsouth.net or text me at 803-331-3923 with any questions or for more information.
Regards,
Scott Harmon
President
SCWOA
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SCMAT would like to announce several article series for the this season:1) September 16, and continuing for 7 straight Mondays through October 28, SCMAT covers every pre-season topic with the biggest storylines of this season.
2) November 6th, Pre-season Team Rankings and Returning Individual State Placers/Qualifiers will be released.
3) Early December, SCMAT embarks on the most ambitious ten-week Exclusive series yet - the Top 10 S.C. Wrestling Seasons (and teams) Of All Time.
4) This season may already qualify as one of the Top 11 S.C. Wrestling Seasons of All Time, with 5A being projected as the most superlative accomplished Individual Rankings list in S.C. History - with approximately 124 Returning State Placers/Qualifiers expected to compete in 5A.
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