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Four Nittany Lions land academic honors

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State put four wrestlers on the National Wrestling Coaches Association’s All-Academic First Team listing.

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Lion contingent falls short at U.S. trials

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Four Penn State wrestlers will have to wait four more years to get another shot at making the U.S. Olympic team.

34 days ago
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Taylor, Brown out at Olympic Trials

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Two of nine Nittany Lion Wrestling Club team members’ shots at making the 2012 Olympic Games in London came to an end Saturday.

35 days ago
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Decade of training leads Wright to Iowa City

BOALSBURG — The wrestling mats are black and gold. The wrestling room walls inside Ken Chertow’s home training center are red, white and blue.

36 days ago
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Frank Molinaro heading home to coach Rutgers

Frank Molinaro’s heart will always be in Happy Valley, but now his future is waiting for him back home in New Jersey.

40 days ago
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Cael Sanderson decides against competing

UNIVERSITY PARK — It was a rare sight, Cael Sanderson with a slightly swollen right eye, looking red and as fresh as if it had been bleeding from the eyelid only moments before.

45 days ago
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Lions prep for Iowa City

UNIVERSITY PARK — If the core group of Nittany Lion Wrestling Club Olympic hopefuls all combined their past wrestling credentials, the collective résumé would probably span the entire perimeter of Penn State’s Lorenzo Wrestling Complex.

45 days ago
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Ruth awarded wild card slot

UNIVERSITY PARK — Another Penn State wrestler will join three others in National Team qualifying action when they head to the Olympic Team Trials in Iowa City in two weeks.

49 days ago
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Sanderson earns coaching honor

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State wrestling coach Cael Sanderson has been named Coach of the Year by national wrestling website InterMat less than a month after Sanderson’s Nittany Lions ran roughshod over their competition at the NCAA Wrestling Championships.

50 days ago
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PSU pair to go for gold

UNIVERSITY PARK — A new challenge awaits Penn State wrestlers David Taylor and Quentin Wright.

60 days ago
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David Taylor earns Hodge Trophy

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State hasn’t had a Heisman Trophy winner in nearly 40 years but the Nittany Lions have secured its first Hodge Trophy since 1997.

65 days ago