Ronnie Davidson and Kirk McClelland won the annual Polar Bear bass tournament held Jan. 1 out of Prairie Creek park on Beaver Lake. Their five-fish tournament limit weighed 17.06 pounds. A field of 69 boats competed in the event.
Ronnie Davidson and Kirk McClelland won the annual Polar Bear bass tournament held Jan. 1 out of Prairie Creek park on Beaver Lake. Their five-fish tournament limit weighed 17.06 pounds. A field of 69 boats competed in the event.
Four Nittany Lion Wrestling Club athletes will head to Tokyo this summer to represent Team USA.
Former Penn State wrestling great David Taylor became the newest member of the Nittany Lions’ Olympian club Saturday. He’ll join Kyle Snyder, Thomas Gilman, and Helen Maroulis on the Olympic team.
Nick Lee and Jason Nolf also battled back to win third place and earn spots on the U.S. National Team.
How It Happened
Thomas Gilman kicked off the Olympic Trial finals for the NLWC with a fall in the second period over Vito Arujau at 57 kg. Gilman found himself trailing 4-0 early but quickly bounced back and went on to score the next 11 points in the match. In the second period, Gilman got Arujau on his back and managed to get the pin and take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three series.
Penn State wrestling is set to host the Big Ten Wrestling Championships in the Bryce Jordan Center this weekend. Although Cael Sanderson’s squad is heading into the tournament relying on youth, the Nittany Lions will have a good chance to qualify a wrestler in every weight class for the upcoming NCAA Championships to be held March 18-20 in St. Louis.
Here’s how the Nittany Lion grapplers could fare heading into the weekend:
At 125 pounds, true freshman Robert Howard has a shot at being a bracket-buster. Howard is currently listed as the 11th seed at the weight in the final seeds announced on Friday. The young freshman holds a 2-1 record on the year, but he’s someone that you don’t want to wrestle in the opening rounds of the tournament. He opens against No. 6 seed Eric Barnett of Wisconsin. Howard wasn’t cleared to wrestle when the Nittany Lions and Badgers met in February.