MOORHEAD, Minn. (5/09/17)—Concordia head coach Phil Moenkedick is thrilled to announce the 2017-18 recruiting class. The incoming group features 13 talented student/athletes that bring state and national pedigree to the program. “I am beyond excited to welcome this great group of young men into the Cobber wrestling family,” stated Moenkedick. “Individually these student/athletes stood out in the…
The Concordia Cobber Team Camp is back this June and better than ever. Year in and year out, Concordia’s team camp has been one of the best team-training and individual opportunities in the Midwest, and this year is no different. Cobber Head Coach Phil Moenkedick and Assistant Quincy Osborn will be joined by the world class staff at South Dakota…
Jesse Shearer is the 2017 winner of the dave Schultz High School Excellence Award for the state of North Dakota. The award recognizes not only talent on the mat, but also “scholastic achievement, citizenship, and community service.” Jesse is the second Shearer to bring home this prestigious honor, as brother Jordan brought won in 2015.…
Sophie Smith has decided that an opportunity to attend and compete for one of the finest preparatory schools in the nation is too great to pass up. The Bismarck Century freshman will leave North Dakota for Pennsylvania next fall, where she will begin her sophomore season of high school at Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School. Smith will…
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (May 2, 2017) — An alternate two-piece uniform consisting of compression shorts or shorts designed for wrestling and a form-fitted compression shirt has been approved for the 2017-18 season in high school wrestling. Wrestlers will have the option of the new two-piece uniform or the traditional one-piece singlet. This revision to Rule 4-1-1…
Schools, Clubs, and Coaches: Starting today, promote your camp on the ND Headlock webpage using any of the following three options: $25: List your camp on the ND Headlock Camp Central webpage. ND Headlock’s Camp Central page is a calendar of area camps that will include a jpeg image of your camp or school logo, basic…
SMLXL Two teams of 9/10 graders represented the state of North Dakota at the AAU 9-10 duals in Des Moines, Iowa on Saturday and Sunday, with Team Prime winning the Silver pool for ninth place overall, and Team Nature Boys taking fifth in the Silver Pool. Team Prime was led by Travis…
SMLXL 3X North Dakota state champion Jared Franek, who won a USA Wrestling Folkstyle national title last spring, chose the FloNationals route this season and was upended in the finals by #8 ranked Jaden Mattox of Ohio. The West Fargo product navigated through four matches to make the finals, including a convincing 11-4 decision in…
With the North Dakota State tournament now over a month in the rearview, a lot of North Dakota’s best prep wrestlers are taking to the mat in national competition all over the country. Last weekend, it was West Fargo 3X state champion Jesse Shearer competing in Virginia Beach, VA at the NHSCA Senior nationals. This…
*I have no affiliation with NDUSA Wrestling, and no one within that fantastic organization shares this opinion (as far as I know). I am just a man with a small mouthpiece brainstorming an idea to make ND wrestling strong across the entire state. By all accounts, the North Dakota State Folkstyle wrestling tournament sponsored by USA Wrestling of…
ndwrestle.com 