Individual Tournament Format

Minnesota won back-to-back national titles in 2001 and '02 and also has four ... 80 All-America honors,
including a school-record 10 All-Americans in 2001

The top-ranked University of Minnesota wrestling team won its third NCAA Championship since 2001 on Saturday night at the Palace in Auburn Hills, Mich. The Golden Gophers clinched the team race following back-to-back losses by Iowa State wrestlers in the 184- and 197-pound title matches. In the final bout of the tournament, heavyweight Cole Konrad concluded his stellar collegiate career with a pin of Penn State's Aaron Anspach in the finals. Konrad became the fourth two-time national champion in school history. Minnesota finished with 98.0 points, while Iowa State finished second with 88.5.

"I think the true character of a team is when you get yourself in a hole and you have to dig yourself out," head coach J Robinson. "They responded when they had to and that's what champions do. This was a team win. All nine guys contributed to this and that's the beauty of this victory."

Dual Format:

http://www.nwcaonline.com/nwcawebsite/Events/nwcanationalduals.aspx


Schedule and Information




Saturday, February 11, 2012



Rutgers Athletic Center (RAC)



Piscataway, New Jersey

Host: Rutgers University

Schools: Cal Poly, Kent State, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and Rutgers.




Sunday, February 12, 2012





Hilton Coliseum

Ames, Iowa

Host: Iowa State University

Schools: Iowa, Iowa State, Northern Iowa, Oregon State, Virginia Tech, and Wisconsin.



Ithaca, New York

Host: Cornell University

Schools: American, Central Michigan, Cornell, Illinois, Oklahoma, and Purdue.



Gallagher-Iba Arena

Stillwater, Oklahoma

Host: Oklahoma State University


Schools: Boise State, Nebraska, Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Chattanooga, and Wyoming.



Date: January 7-8, 2012

Divisions: DII, DIII, NAIA, NJCAA,Women

Place: Prairie Capital Convention Center - Springfield, Illinois

Division II: Augustana, Central Missouri, Central Oklahoma, Findlay, Kings, Limestone, Maryville, Nebraska Kearney, Newberry College, Northern State, San Francisco State, St. Cloud State, Truman State, UM- Mankato, Upper Iowa, and UW-Parkside

Division III: Augsburg, Centenary, Concordia (MN), Dubuque, Elmhurst, Ithaca, Johnson and Wales, Mount Union, North Central, Olivet, Rhode Island, St. John’s, UW- Lacrosse, UW – Stevens Point, UW- Whitewater, and Wartburg.

NAIA: Baker, Campbellsville, Cumberland (TN), Dakota Wesleyan, Dickinson State, Great Falls, Grandview, Jamestown, Lindsey Wilson, Midland, Missouri Valley, Morningside, MSU-Northern, Shorter, Southern Oregon, and Waldorf.

NJCAA: Clackamas, Harper, Iowa Central, Labette, Lincoln, Muskegon, Northwest, and Rend Lake.

Women: King College, Jamestown College, Lindenwood University, Missouri Valley, Menlo, Oklahoma City University, Simon Fraser University, and University of the Cumberlands.










2012 NWCA/Cliff Keen National Duals



NWCA/Cliff Keen National Duals Past Tournaments








NWCA/Cliff Keen National Duals








NWCA/Cliff Keen Division I National Dual Meet Championship

Team Me: Teamwork in Individual Sports

http://www.alleyoop.com/blog/2010/08/12/team-me-teamwork-in-individual-sports/


How to Build Powerfully Successful Work Teams

Team Building Success
http://humanresources.about.com/od/involvementteams/a/team_one_stop.htm

Pan American Games





Guadalajara, Mexico,




October 20 - 24, 2011




Senior Freestyle Results
Team Score
Men’s Freestyle Medal Count
United States, 6 (4 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
Cuba, 5 (1 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze)
Canada, 5 (0 gold, 1 silver, four bronze)
Venezuela, 3 (0 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
Puerto Rico, 2 (1 gold, 1 silver, 0 bronze)
Dominican Republic, 2 (1 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze)
Ecuador, 2 (0 gold, 0 silver, 2 bronze)
Mexico, 1 (0 gold, 1 silver, 0 bronze)
Argentina, 1 (0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze)
Colombia, 1 (0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze)


Event Results
55 kg/121 lbs.
Gold – Juan Ramirez Beltre (Dominican Republic)
Silver – Obe Blanc (USA)
Bronze – Steven Takahashi (Canada)
Bronze – Juan Valverde Carreno (Ecuador)
5th – Luis Orantes (Guatemala)
6th – Andre Quispe Fajardo (Chile)
7th – Fernando Paredes Rojas (Venezuela)

60 kg/132 lbs.
Gold – Franklin Gomez (Puerto Rico)
Silver – Guillermo Torres Cervantes (Mexico)
Bronze – Fernando Iglesias (Argentina)
Bronze – Yowlys Bonne Rodriguez (Cuba)
5th – Luis Portillo Mejia (El Salvador)
5th – Gabriel Garcia Sanchez (Dominican Republic)
7th – Nelson Garcia Ramos (Colombia)
8th – Wilfredo Henriquez Hernandez (Venezuela)
9th – Ryley Walker (Canada)

66 kg/145.5 lbs.
Gold – Livan Lopez Azcuy (Cuba)
Silver – Pedro Soto Cordero (Puerto Rico)
Bronze – Teyon Ware (USA)
Bronze – Yoan Blanco Reinoso (Ecuador)
5th – Edison Hurtado Lerma (Colombia)
5th – Elvis Fuentes Blanco (Venezuela)
7th – Ryan Lue (Canada)
8th – Leon Marquez (Mexico)
9th – Fernando Carranza (Argentina)

74 kg/163 lbs.
Gold – Jordan Burroughs (USA)
Silver – Yunierki Blanco Mora (Cuba)
Bronze – Matt Gentry (Canada)
Bronze – Ricardo Robertty Moreno (Venezuela)
5th – Eduardo Valencia Escoto (Mexico)
5th – Jose Mercado Estacio (Ecuador)
7th – Rosalio Medrano Gulfo (Colombia)
8th – Pool Ambrosio Greifo (Peru)

84 kg/185 lbs.
Gold – Jake Herbert (USA)
Silver – Humberto Arencibia Martinez (Cuba)
Bronze – Jeff Adamson (Canada)
Bronze – Jose Diaz Robertti (Venezuela)
5th – Adrian Jaoude (Brazil)
5th – Jaime Espinal (Puerto Rico)
7th – Roberto Espinosa Rivera (Panama)
8th – Alejandro Gallardo Ocampo (Mexico)

96 kg/211.5 lbs.
Gold – Jake Varner (USA)
Silver – Luis Vivenes Urbaneja (Venezuela)
Bronze – Khetag Pliev (Canada)
Bronze – Juan Martinez Ibarguen (Colombia)
5th – Israel Silva Rios (Mexico)
5th – Marcos Santos Bonnet (Puerto Rico)
7th – Michel Batista Martinez (Cuba)
8th – Randy Lambert Martinez (Honduras)

120 kg/264.5 lbs.
Gold - Tervel Dlagnev (USA)
Silver - Sunny Dhinsa (Canada)
Bronze - Disney Rodriguez (Cuba)
Bronze - Carlos Felix (Dominican Republic)
5th - Carlos Delgado (Ecuador)
5th - Edgardo Lopez (Puerto Rico)
7th – Antoine Jaoude (Brazil)
8th - Jesse Ruiz (Mexico)

http://www.ncaa.com/history/wrestling/d1

Team Champions

John Smith Oklahoma State 2011/12 on this years season.
“All you ever hope for is to have that opportunity. You’re not hoping to win a national championship – instead, you can kind of control your destiny by what you have, and I think we’re in that position right now,” Smith said. “I’m not in the hope mode that things work out, I’m in a pretty good position to be thinking, ‘I need to control our destiny of where we finish.’ You’re not always in that position and I feel like I’m in it now. I think we can control what we do over this season at a very challenging time when there’s several good teams out there.”

Brands raises bar for Hawkeye wrestlers
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/sports/w...5c83d2d461.html

Sanderson insists he and his brothers want to give them something that he has never accomplished as a competitor or a coach: a team title.

“It’s the mark of a program, and it shows that you got a group of guys together and they shared in a common goal,” he said. “It’s something I have missed. I don’t only want one of them. I want a bunch of them like the University of Iowa. I believe I’m in the right place for that to happen.”

Coaches - Team concept.
Wrestlers - Individual concept.

Weren't the coaches former wrestlers? Is this team concept something that just automatically comes with age or with the job?

The job. Coaching a team of individuals.

Last time I checked, there was no I in Team. I like to think of a wrestling team as a Band of Brothers. You don't have to be a Champion to be a Champion. You just have to be part of something special, like a cohesive team, to be special.

There is a Me in team though, and it happens when the whistle blows and you are alone on the mat with no teammates.

No doubt Chief. That is why wrestling, in my opinion, is the toughest sport one can compete in. If you screw up, you don't have anyone to cover your back. If you pull off an upset, no one helped you do it. Wrestling is very much an individual sport, but I love it in the team concept.

Iowa
They repeated as 2009 NCAA champions despite having no individual champions that year.

2008–09 Squad
125 Charlie Falck
133 Joey Slaton/Daniel Dennis
141 Alex Tsirtsis/Dan LeClere
149 Brent Metcalf
157 Matt Ballweg
165 Ryan Morningstar
174 Jay Borschel
184 Phillip Keddy
197 Chad Beatty/Luke Lofthouse
285 Dan Erekson

It comes with the job - the concept changes. Your responsibilities are now different.

RE: You are part of a sales team of 10 and paid by commission - you earn your own pay. You and one other are excellent salesmen while 2 others are average at best, and the other 6 hardly sell anything. It doesnt change how you work or prepare individually, you continue to strive to be the best you can be.
Suddenly you are promoted to Sales manager and are on salary. All at once the performance of the others as a "Team" of salesman becomes extremely important and your job depends on it. Your performance review is based on your groups TOTAL sales, and having one champion salesman left in the team isnt going to impress your superiors. You do everything you can to get everyone on your team above average and you are successful, AND your job is secure. Yes, you change positions and your concept will change as well.