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Jan 15, 2025 | 
win-magazine.com | Mike Finn
Photo: Katie Pilcher of Xavier High School in Cedar Rapids, an all-state catcher and college signee in softball, took up wrestling as a senior this winter. (Pilcher family photos)By Mike FinnKatie Pilcher knows something about hitting home runs in softball. In fact, the senior from Xavier High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, became just the second girl in Iowa high school softball history last season to hit two homers in one inning.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
win-magazine.com | Mike Finn
Photo: Greg Redden (right) speaks to his Bishop Ireton High School wrestling team in Alexandria, Va., where over half are new to the sport this season. (Katie Finn photo)By Mike FinnGreg Redden has coached at the highest level in the state of Virginia and understands what it takes for a high school wrestler to reach the highest level. “I’ve had national prep finalists and multiple state champs,” said Redden, referring to when he coached at Woodside High School in Newport News, Va., in the 1990s.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
win-magazine.com | Mike Finn
Home / Featured / Some wrestlers wait until high school to start Some wrestlers wait until high school to start Updated: January 15, 2025 High school wrestling has been growing on both the boys’ and girls’ sides in the last few years and WIN Magazine created a couple stories in its last issue about how many of these prep wrestlers don’t event start until they reach high school. Click below to read those stories. Click on this image to read the Redden story Click on this image to read the...
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
win-magazine.com | Mike Finn
Photo: Northern Iowa’s defending national champion Parker Keckeisen scored this takedown on the edge of the mat to defeat South Dakota State’s Bennett Berge in their 184-pound bout in the championship dual between NCAA Division I school at the 2025 NWCA National Duals, Jan. 10-11, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The Panthers only lost four individual matches in beating four teams in this year’s event that featured Div. I teams for the first time since 2017.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
win-magazine.com | Mike Finn
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
win-magazine.com | Mike Finn
The following breaks down all the results and highlights from Day 1 of the 2025 NWCA Multi-Division National Duals that are being held at the UNI Dome in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The first day featured first-round and quarterfinal matches of six different tournaments between men’s and women’s schools in the NCAA and NAIA.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
win-magazine.com | Mike Finn
Photo: Men’s and women’s wrestlers from 102 college programs — on nearly every level of the NCAA and NAIA — will compete in the 2025 NWCA National Duals, this Friday and Saturday at the UNI Dome in Cedar Falls, Iowa. NCAA Division I wrestling programs, which once were the only schools that competed the first 13 National Wrestling Coaches Association National Duals, will return to 2025 NWCA Multi-Division National Duals this Friday and Saturday at the UNI Dome in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
win-magazine.com | Mike Finn
By Mike FinnAnthony Ciolino, the founder and head coach of Team Kong United, the club based out of Long Island, N.Y., but features young wrestlers from all over the country, is also a father of three daughters. None of them wrestled; perhaps because there were fewer options for girls when they were little or because they simply grew up to excel in lacrosse and soccer … while Ciolino coached Team Kong United to multiple national dual championships, including six NHSCA Nationals. That was then.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
win-magazine.com | Mike Finn
Home / Featured / Northern Iowa makes big jump in WIN’s Jan. 6 rankings Updated: January 6, 2025 Photo: 125-pound Trever Anderson, who upset Nebraska’s Caleb Smith last weekend, is now among 10 Northern Iowa wrestlers who are ranked in WIN Magazine’s Jan. 6 National Rankings, presented by Cliff Keen Athletic.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
win-magazine.com | Mike Finn
Photos: Left: Nicholas Scattolino spent five days in a medically-induced coma in June of 2020. Right: In March of 2023, in his first season of wrestling, he placed eighth at the state tournament. By Tristan WarnerAs the old proverb goes, “You must learn to crawl before you can walk.”The expression represents the notion that one must build basic, fundamental skills in a particular discipline before advancing to more complicated steps.
