Wrestling legend Dan Gable will join host Jason Bryant and University of Dubuque head wrestling coach Jon McGovern on Episode 45 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast to talk about the upcoming rule changes in NCAA wrestling for the 2017-18 season. Most seem to be universally accepted, although there are a few that seem to have some degree of opposition. Coach Gable also breaks down his theories on why we lose so many wrestlers from the middle school/junior high years and debates the...

Ann Stohr was a pole vaulter in Germany and had aspirations of making World and Olympic teams for her native country. Injuries derailed her athletic career and she settled into the world of sports marketing. On Episode 44 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we'll talk with Stohr, who is currently the Marketing and Communications Coordinator for United World Wrestling. We'll talk with her about the marketing campaigns UWW has implemented in the last year and a half she's been on the...

Episode 43 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast visits with Lee Roy Smith, the Executive Director of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame & Museum in Stillwater, Oklahoma. We'll talk with Smith about how the Hall of Fame came to be, how he followed Myron Roderick into the role as Executive Director, how the organization is structured and the relevance of history and the Hall of Fame in wrestling. The World Wrestling Resource has a slew of resources for wrestlers and coaches from...

World Wrestling Resource co-founder Jon McGovern talks with host Jason Bryant about a number of international topics on Episode 42 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast. McGovern is recently returning from a trip to Canada where his Dubuque squad trained in a cultural exchange with Doug Cox's Guelph wrestling program. We then turn the tables and McGovern starts asking Jason questions about the trip to the European Championships and some other initiatives that he's working on. The...

Two-time Olympian Doug Cox will join Episode 41 of the World Wrestling Resource. Cox is currently the head coach at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. He has been a longtime competitor and coach in both Greco-Roman and freestyle and will be hosting coach Jon McGovern's University of Dubuque team in May during a cultural exchange trip. Cox will also join the discussion with Dennis Hall about the Greco-Roman development in each country, share some stories about travel and give...

Division I All-American and former Slippery Rock wrestling coach Jim Harshaw has done a litany of things in his personal and professional career in and around coaching and marketing. Working in the athletic fundraising world with his alma mater, the University of Virginia, Harshaw has to make connections all the time to promote athletics, not just wrestling. On Episode 40, Harshaw breaks down things he's learned with his podcast from people outside of wrestling and topics and tactics he...

Episode 39 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast visits with the Doctor of Wrestling, Dr. Dave Curby. Since 2007, Curby has been the leader of a group called the International Network of Wrestling Researchers. The intent after its foundation was to connect people who have like-minded research ideas and projects surrounding wrestling. Dr. Curby, who was a Big Ten champion for Michigan in 1974 and one of the first Junior National freestyle champions for the budding USWF, has been developing...

Episode 38 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast features a pair of U.S. National Team coaches as Matt Lindland and Terry Steiner return to the show. Coach Steiner was finishing up a practice in Colorado Springs as he readies Sarah Hildebrandt and Alli Ragan for the non-Olympic World Championships in Budapest on Dec. 10-11, while Lindland was already in Budapest, sticking around with his athletes after the Golden Grand Prix and getting them ready for the Greco Clubs Cup prior to the...

Gene Zannetti of Wrestling Mindset returns to the World Wrestling Resource Podcast to talk about the redflags that can lead to mindset mistakes in wrestling. One of the co-founders of WrestlingMindset.com, Zannetti wrestled at the University of Pennsylvania and he and his brothers and the rest of the team have created the only wrestling-specific mindset training program in the country. Episode 37 of the World Wrestling Resource is chock full of information about what habits lead to...

Nearly 20 years ago, the sport of college wrestling was rocked by deaths of three college athletes as they tried to cut weight. Billy Saylor, Joe LaRosa and Jeff Reese all died after massive dehydration complicated by the use of legal, yet mostly untested supplements. The result was sweeping change from the NCAA, including moving dual meet weigh-ins to one hour before and banning of anything related to weight loss that wasn't simply a product of hard work. Rubber suits, something...

World champion Dennis Hall and host Jason Bryant go at it by themselves on Episode 35 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast. This episode talks about the foundations of the World Wrestling Resource and the relationship shared between Hall, Terry Brands and Jon McGovern. Hall will then go into the topics relevant to youth wrestling with athlete investment and retention. Part of that debate centers around the singlet and should other alternatives be considered as well as the youth...

World champions Dennis Hall and Terry Brands return to the World Wrestling Resource Podcast with Episode 34 as the two tackle the Cadet and Junior World Championships, rule changes and international discipline. We first tackle the new rule change handed down by United World Wrestling that eliminates forced par terre in Greco-Roman. Dennis Hall doesn't like it. We then get into a spirited discussion about what needs to happen to "make Greco cool" so our Cadets get a chance to wrestle the...

With the Olympic championships won by Kyle Snyder and Helen Maroulis, there is no shortage of people who helped them attain those goals. Two of those individuals will join us today on Episode 33 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast -- Ohio State head wrestling coach Tom Ryan and Sunkist Kids women's coach and River Falls (Wis.) High School coach Kevin Black. Black, an All-American at Wisconsin, has been a multiple-time World team coach and a past USA Women's Coach of the Year. Ryan is...

With the American contingent back from Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympic Games, the World Wrestling Resource Podcast fires back up with some thoughts from the Games with Dennis Hall and Terry Brands. Both Hall and Brands had athletes competing in Rio and both are past U.S. Olympians. What do they say to their athletes coming home and how do they decompress? What do each of them think about the performances from the three U.S. styles? What will Helen Maroulis' gold do for wrestling in...

The annual NWCA Convention and CEO Leadership Academy came to a close in Fort Lauderdale, Florida earlier this month. With a recap of the convention and some of the happenings that went on, we'll talk with NWCA Executive Director Mike Moyer. Moyer will be joined by Division III Coaches Association President and co-founder of the World Wrestling Resource Jon McGovern to talk about a few of the relevant topics that came out of the convention. Keys to Episode 31 of the World Wrestling...

Episode 30 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast is back with another discussion with world champions Dennis Hall and Terry Brands about the relevant topics in wrestling. With the Olympic Games approximately 50 days from kicking off in Rio, we'll discuss the training cycles of the athletes heading into Rio, the recent hire of Bill Zadick as the U.S. National freestyle coach, performances at the freestyle World Cup, the added element of parenting for Olympic athletes, preparing for an...

Episode 29 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast features former USA Wrestling National Teams Director Mitch Hull and regular hosts Jason Bryant and Dennis Hall. Hull spent over 20 years at USA Wrestling and he'll give his insight on the recent hiring of Bill Zadick as the U.S. National Freestyle Coach and what processes are in place when a national governing body makes hires. Hull will also break down some of his experiences in dealing with controversial topics that surrounded...

On Episode 28 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we're joined by legendary wrestling coach Dan Gable and four-time All-American and 1999 U.S. World Team member Eric Akin. Joining host Jason Bryant is the World Wrestling Resource's own Terry Brands. We'll talk with the group about the factions within wrestling and whether or not there is a barrier to entry with elite-level clubs and regional training centers, drawing off the Hawkeye Wrestling Club experience with all three. Akin,...

Episode 27 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast visits with 1972 Olympic champion and two-time Olympic medalist Ben Peterson. Peterson has been renowned as a clinician and speaker and coach for decades. He's recently released a book, Road To Gold, where he chronicles his journey to the gold medal in 1972. Peterson shares stories about Bill Farrell, Dan Gable, Rick Sanders and of course, his brother John throughout this episode. Interested fans can buy the book at CampofChamps.org ...

Episode 26 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast breaks down the Olympic Trials with Jon McGovern, Dennis Hall and Terry Brands. Hall coached Ben Provisor to his second straight Olympic team in Greco-Roman, while Brands coached the Hawkeye Wrestling Club members and 57kg Olympian Daniel Dennis. We break down the preparation, the battles within the room as teammates competed for the same position and get perspectives from Hall and Brands about the competitive side rather than focusing...

The 2016 U.S. Olympic Wrestling Team Trials are ready to roll in Iowa City on April 9-10. On Episode 25 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, host Jason Bryant will be joined by U.S. National Team coaches Matt Lindland and Terry Steiner and WWR co-founder Dennis Hall. There's still work to be done for some of the weight classes that still need to qualify for the Rio Olympics, but all three on the panel will give their perspectives on preparing for the Trials from both a coaching and...

On Episode 24 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we'll take the world of coaching and parenting to the next level. Joining WWR staffer Dennis Hall will be Ohio State head wrestling coach Tom Ryan and Graham High School (Ohio) head coach Jeff Jordan. Hall has three sons who wrestle, as does coach Jordan, who also has two other nephews who wrestled for him at Graham.. Coach Ryan is coaching two of Jordan's sons at Ohio State and is also coaching his own son, Jake, at Ohio State. ...

The World Wrestling Resource Podcast returns with Episode 23 where the discussion will center around the recent Flowrestling release of Terry, a feature-length documentary on Iowa assistant coach and World champion Terry Brands. Brands will join host Jason Bryant and World Wrestling Resource's Jon McGovern and Dennis Hall for a conversation about the backstory within the film and some of the focal points of the film. Coach Brands also explains the Foxcatcher relationship from 1996,...

Olympian Andy Hrovat and renowned high school wrestling coach Mike Powell address distractions on Episode 22 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast with host Jason Bryant. Hrovat was a three-time All-American at Michigan while Powell was an All-American as a freshman at Indiana. Hrovat avoided negative distractions that often follow college life, but Powell didn't and it ultimately led to him not getting back on the podium. The two offer their perspectives on avoiding damaging...

On Episode 21 of the World Wrestling Resource, we are again rejoined by Gene Zannetti of Wrestling Mindset and welcome Dr. Coyte Cooper of Elite Level Sports Marketing and the author of the book Impressions: The Power of Personal Branding in Living an Extraordinary Life. Cooper and Zannetti will join host Jason Bryant and World Champion Dennis Hall in a discussion about goal setting and living a championship lifestyle. Focusing on goals is great, but are you actually writing them down?...