SUN DEVIL WRESTLING SID Contact: Alex Ryan | [email protected] | (480) 965-4987 | thesundevils.com Arizona State - 5-13 (1-4 Pac-10) Wrestling Heads to Philly for NCAA Champs. Tournament #3 at Pac-10 Wrestling Championships Sun Devils set to challenge for titles, All-America honors Sunday, February 27 All Day SUN DEVILS IN THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS Gill Coliseum Corvallis, Ore. Web Cast: OSUBeavers.com WT Sun Devil Yr. OAll Dual Hometown (Last School) 125 Anthony Robles (1) Sr.* 31-0 18-0 Mesa, Ariz. (Mesa HS) Schedule/Results 157 Bubba Jenkins (4) Sr.* 16-3 6-1 Virginia Beach, Va. (Penn State) Date Opponent Time/Score 174 Eric Starks Jr. 17-9 3-5 Battle Ground, Wash. (Battle Ground HS) N 13 at [#7] Grand Canyon W 29-8 184 Jake Meredith Jr. 22-14 10-8 Temecula, Calif. (Temecula Valley HS) at {#10} Embry-Riddle W 41-6197 Luke Macchiaroli Fr.* 12-11 8-9 Scottsdale, Ariz. (Penn State) N 18 #8 Oklahoma L 32-7285 Levi Cooper So.* 24-9 12-5 Hubbard, Ore. (CS Bakers eld) N 20 at CS Fullerton Open All Day (#) indicates tournament seeding N 27 CS Fullerton W 25-19 NCAA DIVISION I WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS SCHEDULE D 3 at Las Vegas Invitational D 4 at Las Vegas Invitational t-12th Thursday, March 17 D 19 at Reno Tournament 4th 11:00 am ET Session 1 Championship First Round J 2 #2 Oklahoma State L 40-4 6:30 pm ET Session 2 Championship Second Round and Consolation Round 31st Virginia Duals (Hampton, VA) Friday, March 18 J 7 vs Chattanooga W 22-18 10:30 am ET Session 3 Quarter nals and Consolations 7 vs #23 Kent State L 30-7 7:00 pm ET Session 4 Semi nals and Consolations J 8 vs Virginia L 29-18 Saturday, March 19 13th Lone Star Duals (Grand Prairie, TX) 11:00 am ET Session 5 Consolation Finals J 15 vs Northern Colorado W 30-19 7:30 pm ET Session 6 Championship Finals and Award Presentations vs Air Force L 26-23 vs #19 American L 27-18 vs [#9] Central Oklahoma L 23-22TEMPE - Six members of the Arizona State University wrestling team automati- J 21 CS Bakers eld L 27-17 cally quali ed for the NCAA Wrestling Championships and will travel to Philadel- J 30 #22 Cal Poly L 40-11 phia, Pa., this week to compete in the 2011 event that will take place Thursday F 4 at #14 Nebraska L 35-8through Saturday at the Wells Fargo Center. All six Sun Devils will be looking to F 6 at #15 Iowa State L 33-14place in the Top 8 of their respective weight classes to earn All-America honors F 11 at #21 Oregon State L 33-11with each weight winner earning the honor of national champion. F 13 at Stanford L 28-11 Pac-10s (Corvallis, OR) F 27 at Pac-10 Championships 3rdQUICK SHOTS NCAAs (Philadelphia, PA) ESPN, ESPNU and ESPN3.com will air coverage of the Championships M 18 at NCAA Championships All Day The Stakes: National titles, All-America honors on the line this weekend M 19 at NCAA Championships All Day Still the One: ASU is only western school to win NCAA Division I Wrestling M 20 at NCAA Championships All Day Keystone Clashes: 2011 marks third time ASU will compete at NCAAs in Pa. Sun Devils automatically quali ed six to the NCAA Championships All times local to site and subject to change; Pac-10 dual; home in maroon # preceeding team is NWCA/USA Today Coaches Poll ranking at time of dual How they quali ed: two champions, two nalists, two third-place nishers [#] NCAA Division II ranking; {#} NAIA ranking Robles earns #1 seed at 125; Jenkins is #4 at 157 ASU has had a wrestler seeded 139 times; at least one each year since 1976 ASU has a #1 seed for the 10th time in team history (1st since Larkin, 2003) ON THE AIR WITH ESPN ESPN will air live coverage throughout the Championships this week with action being broadcast through three different outlets. On Thursday, ESPN3.com will be the lone place to watch the action with ESPNU taking over all day Friday (ESPN3. com will simulcast Friday morning). Saturday, the medal rounds will air on ESPNU while ESPN will provide live coverage at 7:30 p.m. ET (4:30 p.m. Arizona) for the nals that night (ESPN3.com simulcast). Todd Harris, Tim Johnson, Jeff Blatnick and Quint Kessenich will be the on air talent throughout the weekend. THE STAKES As with every NCAA Championship event, the stakes couldnt be higher as the NCAA will crown one team champion, 10 individual champions and 80 All-Ameri- cans at the end of the tournament. Individuals will have to win ve matches (six if ASU WRESTLINGS SOCIAL MEDIA AREA you are in a championship pig-tail) to become a champion while those eight indi- TWITTER FACEBOOK viduals at each weight class that place in the Top 8 will become All-Americans. @ASUWrestling Search: Sun Devil Wrestling 2010-11 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WRESTLING 1 Coach Charles / Notes HEAD COACH SHAWN CHARLES NCAA HISTORY Since becoming a varsity program in 1962-63, Arizona State has had at least one On May 8, 2009, the Sun Devil wrestling program brought back one of its own by hiring Shawn Charles wrestler represent the program at 46 of the possible 49 NCAA Championships to lead the program that he competed for from 1990- (which includes the 2011 tournament), including the last 37 in a row. The Sun 93. An Arizona native and one of the more successful Devils have placed among the Top 10 nationally 18 times and earned ve trophy Sun Devils in program history, Charles is just the sixth head coach in the programs 47-year history. nishes (Top 4), including the 1988 NCAA Championship crown and runner-up Charles brings a wealth of knowledge to the nishes in both 1989 and 1990. program following coaching stints as a head coach (Fresno State, 2005-06 & Phoenix College, 1995- WESTERN WIN 96) and as an assistant coach (Missouri, Brown, Nebraska, Central Michigan and Iowa State). During Since 1928, the NCAA has conducted a wrestling championship with 11 different his time on the sidelines, he has worked with schools claiming the crown. In 1988, Arizona State won the title and still is the only 39 individuals that have earned NCAA All-America Western team to have done so in the history of the event. Based on geographical accolades with three competitors securing individual location, when removing ASU from the list, the most western team to win a title national titles. As a student-athlete at ASU, Charles earned All- would be Oklahoma, who has won seven. The schools that have won crowns America honors four times in his career and was include Oklahoma State (33), Iowa (22), Iowa State (eight), Oklahoma (seven), a two-time national finalist at 126 pounds. Charles Minnesota (three) and the following schools with one each: Arizona State, Cornell also was a two-time individual Pac-10 Champion College (Iowa), Indiana, Michigan State, Northern Iowa and Penn State. and helped his team to three Pac-10 Championships (1990, 1991, 1993) and three Top 6 finishes at the NCAA Championships. In 1993, he graduated from KEYSTONE COMPETITIONS ASU with a B.S. in Computer Information Systems to The 2011 Championships mark the third time ASU has competed in the national cap a collegiate career that saw him win 103 career matches and compete in the NWCA East-West All- event in the state of Pennsylvania with the other two times coming in 1968 and Star Classic twice. 1999. ASU nished tied for 28th in 1968 at Penn State with Gary Seymour nish- As an international competitor, Charles claimed ing sixth at 190 to become an All-American. In 1999, also at PSU, Eric Larkin 14 titles, including victories in tournaments in Iran, (133) and Steve Blackford (165) both nished fourth to become All-Americans. Manitoba, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Turkey while also winning the U.S. Open, the NYAC International and the Pan-American Championships. Along with sev- WHOS IN? eral U.S. national titles, Charles twice placed second Arizona State automatically quali ed six individuals to the Championships as each at the World Team Trials and was an alternate on the of the six nished within the allotment places at the Pac-10 Championships on Feb- 1996 U.S. Olympic team. ruary 27. Pac-10 champions Anthony Robles (125) and Jake meredith (184) will be QUICK FACTS ON CHARLES joined by runners-up Bubba Jenkins (157) and Luke macchiaroli (197) while both ASUs first 4x NCAA All-American in wrestling (90-93) Eric Starks (174) and Levi Cooper (285) nished third to earn the nal spots at their 2x Pac-10 Champion (126 pounds) respective weights. meredith had to win his weight class as it was the only way to Graduated from ASU in 1993 (BS, Computer Info. Sys.) Has coached 40 NCAA All-Americans & 3 champions earn an automatic berth at 184. Has helped teams place Top 10 at NCAAs seven times 3x Arizona HS State Champion (Tucson Santa Rita) HIGHLY REGARDED The NCAA released the tournament brackets and seeds for each weight class CHARLES NCAA-I COACHING RECORD All Pac-10 Pac-10 NCAA last week with Anthony Robles earning the No. 1 spot at 125 pounds and Bubba Year Duals Duals Finish Finish Jenkins securing the No.