We have just returned from a great weekend of Wrestling at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational. We took 8 wrestlers to compete and we are beginning to make strides. We are a unit, a team and although we placed 3 wrestlers and had one in the round of 12, we are not satisfied, we need to compete as a whole. Corey Jantzen has made leaps and bounds and is beginning to make some damage at the 141lb weight class. He beat returning national champion J Jaggers of Ohio State in quarter finals and then pinned Chris Drouin of Arizona State who is ranked 4th in the country. JP O'Connor had a great tournament of his own with his only loss of the tournament coming to Jordan Burroughs of Nebraska who is ranked two spots ahead of him at number 3 in the country. JP came back to take 3rd in the tournament. Louis Caputo's only loss of the season and of the tournament came in the finals to 5th ranked Kirk Smith of Boise State in a close 3-1 Decision. Freshmen Walter Peppelmen had a first round loss to 14th ranked Cesar Grajales of Penn and came back tough in the wrestle backs to win four straight. He then loss to 13th ranked Trevor Chinn of Lehigh to take him out of contention of placing. All our guys learned a lot from this weekend and it's these losses and wins that are the building blocks to put us in contention of our goals! We now go back to training hard before the guys leave for Christmas break. We will be back on the mat December 29-30 at the Midland Championships and then right back on January 3rd at the Lonestar Duals where we will wrestle Stanford, Cal Poly, and Minnesota.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational
We have just returned from a great weekend of Wrestling at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational. We took 8 wrestlers to compete and we are beginning to make strides. We are a unit, a team and although we placed 3 wrestlers and had one in the round of 12, we are not satisfied, we need to compete as a whole. Corey Jantzen has made leaps and bounds and is beginning to make some damage at the 141lb weight class. He beat returning national champion J Jaggers of Ohio State in quarter finals and then pinned Chris Drouin of Arizona State who is ranked 4th in the country. JP O'Connor had a great tournament of his own with his only loss of the tournament coming to Jordan Burroughs of Nebraska who is ranked two spots ahead of him at number 3 in the country. JP came back to take 3rd in the tournament. Louis Caputo's only loss of the season and of the tournament came in the finals to 5th ranked Kirk Smith of Boise State in a close 3-1 Decision. Freshmen Walter Peppelmen had a first round loss to 14th ranked Cesar Grajales of Penn and came back tough in the wrestle backs to win four straight. He then loss to 13th ranked Trevor Chinn of Lehigh to take him out of contention of placing. All our guys learned a lot from this weekend and it's these losses and wins that are the building blocks to put us in contention of our goals! We now go back to training hard before the guys leave for Christmas break. We will be back on the mat December 29-30 at the Midland Championships and then right back on January 3rd at the Lonestar Duals where we will wrestle Stanford, Cal Poly, and Minnesota.
Monday, October 20, 2008
First week
The first week of season practice is over. Midnight "Matness" went great and begins hopefully the beginning of a Harvard wrestling tradition. The idea of Midnight "Matness" came from none other then Coach Jay Weiss. We wanted something that would define the Harvard Wrestling Team that would excite the guys about the first day of practice. Basketball players do it, and we wrestlers train harder then them... so why can't we do it. The team seemed really excited as Midnight "Matness" approached and it turned out to be a great hour of practice. Muzaffar took them through a tough practice and it looked like they got a lot out of it. The first day of competition is rapidly approaching (Nov. 15). The men are preparing for battle and a long fun year.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
The End of Preseason, the Beginning of Season!
The dreaded stadium as you alumni probably remember it as, has completed the preseason phase of our training! The wrestlers couldn't have finished as a unit any better. It was amazing to see them just kill the stadium. We had a great beginning of this 2008-2009 season, and as these men move forward to our team goals the hard work will pay off. We start official practice on the 15th of October, tomorrow... which means we kick off the first ever Midnight "Matness," tonight at midnight! More to come about this in tomorrow"s blog.
Monday, September 29, 2008
The long awaiting season!!
It has been a while since we last updated our blog.... and I apologize. I promise to keep all you Harvard Wrestling Fans updated as we head into a new 2008-2009 season. We, as a coaching staff are very excited for this upcoming season. We have brought onto our staff a new volunteer assistant to replace Jesse Jantzen who has finished up his wrestling career and will move on to accomplish far great things in this world. Muzaffar Abdurakhmanov our new volunteer assistant for the 2008-2009 season is one of the most accomplished wrestlers in American University history and our team is already gaining from the vast knowledge and technique he has to offer. We have finished up our first week of preseason training, usually not a fun week, but our team is stepping up to the challenge of an Ivy League Title! The team is looking good as we are training 4 days a week. They are doing a team lift 2 days and a conditioning lift led by Muzaffar on the other day. The guys are running three days either a distance run around Boston or timed run on the track and one day we are getting on the mat for technique. We hope to keep the guys excited as they are entering into a new school year and preseason being draining on them, but keeping our sites on an Ivy League Title will keep them training hard. More to come in the future.
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