2017-18 Sun Devil Wrestling Weekly Notes
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2017-18 Sun Devil Wrestling Weekly Notes Media Relations: Mollie Hanke | [email protected] | (480) 965-6594 | www.TheSunDevils.com 2017-18 SCHEDULE @ASUWrestling Returns East for 38th Annual Virginia Duals Date Opponent Venue/Score Oct. 28 M&G Final N/A TEMPE, Ariz.— After a dual at No. 19 North Carolina last weekend, the No. 10 Sun Devils Nov. 5 Mich. St. Open N/A Nov. 5 NWCA All-Star Classic N/A return to the East Coast for the 38th Annual Virginia Duals Friday, Jan. 12-Saturday, Jan. Nov. 10 #3 Michigan L, 18-21 13. Nov. 12 #2 Ohio State L, 12-31 Nov. 19 #22 Pittsburgh W, 32-6 Nov. 26 #14 SD State$ W, 25-13 The Virginia Duals take place at Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Va. (1000 Coliseum Dr. Dec. 1-2 Cliff Keen Invite 3rd (113.5 pts) Hampton, VA 23666). Dec. 29-30 Midlands 4th (106.5 pts) Jan. 6 #19 North Carolina W, 27-9 Tickets can be purchased on Ticketmaster.com for the following prices: Jan. 12 VA Duals Hampton, Va. Jan. 13 VA Duals Hampton, Va. 2-day pass: $40 + fees Jan. 19 Stanford*$ Wells Fargo Friday single session pass: $20 + fees Jan. 20 Oregon State*$ Wells Fargo Saturday 2-session pass: $25 + fees Jan. 24 CSU Bakersfield* Bakersfield, Calif. Feb. 3 Edinboro Open Edinboro, Pa. Saturday second session pass: $16 + fees Feb. 9 Lehigh Wells Fargo Feb. 11 Cal Poly* SLO, Calif. The Sun Devils are part of the three-team James River Pool alongside Virginia and Iowa Feb. 25 Pac-12 Champs.$ Corvallis, Ore. State. Also in the tournament are the following teams: Mar. 15 NCAA Champs. Cleveland, Ohio Mar. 16 NCAA Champs. Cleveland, Ohio Hampton River Pool: Campbell, Old Dominion, No. 9 Virginia Tech Mar. 17 NCAA Champs. Cleveland, Ohio Poquoson River Pool: Kent State, Chattanooga, No. 11 Northern Iowa York River Pool: No. 20 Lock Haven, Fresno State, Oklahoma, Bucknell $Pac-12 Network *Pac-12 Conference game ASU will first face Virginia at 11 am ET on Friday before facing Iowa State at 1 pm ET, Probable ASU Lineup both on mat 2. 125: #17 Ryan Millhof/Josh Kramer 133: #23 Ali Naser The top team from each of the four pools will advance to the Gold bracket, the second 141: Nikko Villarreal 149: #12 Josh Maruca/Jason Tsirtsis team to the Silver, and the third to the Bronze. (See attached bracket and on page 2 of the 157: Oliver Pierce/#4 Josh Shields notes for full bracket with times). 165: #15 Anthony Valencia 174: #1 Zahid Valencia 184: Kordell Norfleet Live scoring and video will be on Trackwrestling.com with links and updated brackets on 197: Cade Belshay www.virginiaduals.org. HWT: #4 Tanner Hall Last season, ASU took third as a team, marking their best placement since finishing third Coaching Staff Head Coach: Zeke Jones (4th year, 33-20 duals) in 1997 and sixth time finishing in the top four. In the gold bracket, they dropped a semi- Assistant Coach: Lee Pritts (6th year) final match to then-No. 15 Oklahoma and rebounded with a 20-19 win vs. North Dakota Assistant Coach: Chris Pendleton (4th year) State in the third-place dual. Zahid Valencia was also named Most Outstanding Wrestler Volunteer Assistant: Haislan Garcia (2nd year) Director of Operations: Maddie Schossow (2nd year) of the 2017 Virginia Duals as voted upon by coaches in attendance. Student Video Coordinator: Matt Kramer (1st year) Student Video Coordinator: Alex Reyes (1st year) UP NEXT Athletic Trainer: Carter Pruitt (3rd year) After heading to the Virginia Duals this weekend, the Sun Devils return home for a mo- Media Relations: Mollie Hanke (2nd year) mentous weekend honoring several special groups including MMA Night on Jan. 19 vs. Stanford (8 pm MT) and the 1988 NCAA Championship Reunion on Jan. 20 vs. Oregon State (1:30 pm MT). ASU Wrestling Social Media SPECIAL TICKET PACKAGE FOR JAN. 19/20 With Pac-12 opponents in Stanford and Oregon State coming to town as well as the FACEBOOK return of MMA Night and a 1988 NCAA championship reunion, fans are invited to buy a Search: Sun Devil Wrestling special ticket package for $15 for admission to both matches. This package can be pur- chased at: https://oss.ticketmaster.com/aps/sundevils/EN/buy/flexplan. TWITTER @ASUWrestling 1988 CHAMPIONSHIP REUNION JAN. 20 The 1988 NCAA championship returns to Tempe Jan. 20 and a special reception will take INSTAGRAM SunDevilWrestling1962 place at Tempe Mission Palms at 4 pm following the 1:30 pm match. The reception will 2017-18 SunDevilWrestling 2017-18 Weekly Notes Weekly 23 2017-18 Sun Devil Wrestling Head Coach Zeke Jones The seventh coach in ASU wrestling history, Zeke Jones was hired in April 2014 and had his contract renewed in October 2016. Jones led his alma mater to its 17th Pac-10/12 championship (19th conference title in- cluding two Western Athletic Conference titles) in 2017 behind five individual champions in Josh Maruca (149), Josh Shields (157), Anthony Valencia (165), Zahid Valencia (174), and Tanner Hall (HWT). In his first season with the Sun Devils, Jones led ASU to a second-place finish at the Pac- 12 Championships, the highest finish since 2006, and coached six wrestlers to the 2015 NCAA Wrestling Championships including All-American Blake Stauffer (184). In 2016, the Sun Devils again finished second as a team at Pac-12’s and returned six individuals to the NCAA championships. An Olympic silver medalist for the United States, Jones was the 1991 World Champion at 52kg, a four-time World Cup Champion, and coached the United States’ Olympians in the 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2012 Olympic Games. A member of ASU’s 1988 NCAA Wrestling Championship team, Jones was a three-time All-American and Pac-10 Champion for the Sun Devils. A nation- al runner-up at 118, Jones sits at No. 4 in ASU’s career record book in both overall victories (134) and dual victories (59). He also holds the school record for dual match victories in a season with 22 during the 1989-90 campaign. As Olympic head coach, Jones’ athletes earned two gold medal and one bronze at the London games in 2012. His athletes in the 2004 Athens games, where he was the freestyle coach, earned a gold and two silvers. In the four World Championships during Jones’ tenure, the USA placed third in 2011, fifth in 2013, and seventh in 2009. He also led the USA to five individual World Champion medals, including two-time world champion Jordan Burroughs. The United States also competed in three Freestyle World Cups during the Jones era, placing third in 2012 and 2013, and sixth in 2010. During the Jones era, the USA won eight Junior World medals, five University World medals, and four Cadet World medals. Jones came to USA Wrestling after coaching at the University of Pennsylvania from 2005-07, where he amassed a record of 33-17-1. Following the 2006 campaign that saw an NCAA champion, two All-Americans, two Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) champions, and a third-place finish at the EIWA Championships, Amateur Wrestling News named Jones the Rookie Head Coach of the Year. Prior to coaching at Penn, he served on the coaching staffs at West Virginia, ASU, and Bloomsburg University. Jones coached teams that have finished in the NCAA Final Four twice, in the top-10 four times, and won six conference team championships. Individually, his wrestlers have won six NCAA titles, eight NCAA finalists, 36 individual conference champions, 29 All-Americans, 74 NCAA Qualifiers, and 11 wrestlers have competed in the NWCA All-Star Meet. Originally from Ann Arbor, Mich., Jones is a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, member of the Arizona State University Hall of Fame, and the Michigan Wrestling Hall of Fame. ASU President Michael Crow on Zeke Jones: “I said to Ray [Anderson], either we’re going to have a wrestling team that’s going to compete for national championships or we’re not going to have a wrestling team. So you need to find the best person in the world to be our coach. Zeke Jones is our coach: Multi-time world champion in wrestling, NCAA champion, ASU graduate, and at the time Ray hired him, sitting Olympic coach for the United States Olympic Team in wrestling, former coach at the University of Pennsylvania. That is the person, the personage, the kind of character that we are looking for.” ASU Vice President for University Athletics/Athletics Director Ray Anderson on Zeke Jones: “It is important we retain our high-caliber coaching hires and, without a doubt, Coach Jones has made a huge impact in his three years at Arizona State. He consistently demands high academic commitment and athletic dedication from our student-athletes and he and his staff worked tirelessly to recruit one of the top-rated recruiting classes in college wrestling history.” JONES’ RECORD AT ASU IN... JONES’ RECORD AT ASU IN... All Home Duals ......................................... 12-5-0 First Dual of the Year ................................ 3-1-0 All Road Duals .......................................... 11-8-0 First Home Dual of the Year .................... 3-1-0 All Neutral Site Duals .............................. 10-7-0 First Road Dual of the Year ..................... 2-2-0 All Pac-12 Duals ...................................... 10-5-0 First Neutral Dual of the Year ................. 3-0-0 All Home Pac-12 Duals .......................... 5-2-0 First Pac-12 Dual of the Year ................. 1-2-0 All Road Pac-12 Duals ........................... 5-3-0 First Home Pac-12 Dual of the Year ....