Five time champs coming? My question. Casey's email follows:
Penn State Wrestling Fans!!!!!!!!!!
It has been a little while and things have begun to open back up since our last message, so it seems like a fitting time for an update. We are officially back in Rec Hall (with a lot of safety measures and protocols) which is great news. It has been a slow process over weeks of gradually working back into the building, but we are back and are able to wrestle now on a consistent basis. Our guys must undergo weekly testing, social distance with those who are not their wrestling partner, wear mask on campus and in the facility, get in and out of the facility before the next group enters, social distance outside the wrestling room to name a few but to be back wrestling in the Lorenzo Wrestling Complex it is well worth it to the guys. Overall, we have a very young team, but it is a group of guys who love to be on the wrestling mat and who we are excited to watch compete this year.
We do not yet have our schedule set with all the moving parts, but it will be a second semester start. The NCAA has announced that this year will not be counted against anybody that chooses to compete. So, if like last year and the National Tournament is cancelled then the athletes will get the year back. They have also said that if there is a national tournament then they will still get the year back which makes things interesting. We feel bad for our seniors who did not get to compete in their 4th national championship last year, but it is good to know regardless of what happens this year guys will not lose the opportunity to compete going forward. Hopefully that all makes sense, but the point is there is no negative consequence for competing this year. Athletes will be able to get their 4 years at the National Tournament and in some cases now may get 5.
In other exciting news the NLWC hosted its first wrestling event on Rokfin last month. The NLWC is set to host another one next Tuesday night at 8:05pm on Rokfin. The great thing about this next event is a lot of our college guys will be competing this time. Our college guys have been excited to compete since last March and longer for some of them so it will be fun to see where they are at. It will give everybody a chance to see some of our new and older guys compete against quality competition in the same event. I will include the article with the link to sign up, but it is $10 to watch and that allows you access to everything on the site for 1 month. We are going to be trying to put up interviews, some clips of practice, etc. so get signed up and support the NLWC. If you are already signed up then thank you for the support as it directly impacts our post grads who live and train here full time.
Thank you
GO LIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Penn State Wrestling Fans!!!!!!!!!!
It has been a little while and things have begun to open back up since our last message, so it seems like a fitting time for an update. We are officially back in Rec Hall (with a lot of safety measures and protocols) which is great news. It has been a slow process over weeks of gradually working back into the building, but we are back and are able to wrestle now on a consistent basis. Our guys must undergo weekly testing, social distance with those who are not their wrestling partner, wear mask on campus and in the facility, get in and out of the facility before the next group enters, social distance outside the wrestling room to name a few but to be back wrestling in the Lorenzo Wrestling Complex it is well worth it to the guys. Overall, we have a very young team, but it is a group of guys who love to be on the wrestling mat and who we are excited to watch compete this year.
We do not yet have our schedule set with all the moving parts, but it will be a second semester start. The NCAA has announced that this year will not be counted against anybody that chooses to compete. So, if like last year and the National Tournament is cancelled then the athletes will get the year back. They have also said that if there is a national tournament then they will still get the year back which makes things interesting. We feel bad for our seniors who did not get to compete in their 4th national championship last year, but it is good to know regardless of what happens this year guys will not lose the opportunity to compete going forward. Hopefully that all makes sense, but the point is there is no negative consequence for competing this year. Athletes will be able to get their 4 years at the National Tournament and in some cases now may get 5.
In other exciting news the NLWC hosted its first wrestling event on Rokfin last month. The NLWC is set to host another one next Tuesday night at 8:05pm on Rokfin. The great thing about this next event is a lot of our college guys will be competing this time. Our college guys have been excited to compete since last March and longer for some of them so it will be fun to see where they are at. It will give everybody a chance to see some of our new and older guys compete against quality competition in the same event. I will include the article with the link to sign up, but it is $10 to watch and that allows you access to everything on the site for 1 month. We are going to be trying to put up interviews, some clips of practice, etc. so get signed up and support the NLWC. If you are already signed up then thank you for the support as it directly impacts our post grads who live and train here full time.
Thank you
GO LIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
