App State yesterday released their season's schedule.

The OOC is freaking great this year.

Virginia Tech
UNC @ HOME
NC State @ HOME
Duke
Penn


Also got an OOC dual with Little Rock as well, which I am excited about, even if they're about to leave the Sun Belt (hope their wrestling joins the SoCon)

https://twitter.com/AppWrestling/status/...8339949575

https://twitter.com/AppWrestling/status/...8373346310

https://appstatesports.com/news/2021/10/...-team.aspx

Quote:BOONE, N.C. — With its five returning league champions all being named to the preseason all-conference team, App State has been voted the favorite in the 2021-22 SoCon Wrestling Preseason Coaches' Poll.

Coached by JohnMark Bentley, the Mountaineers received six of nine first-place votes and totaled 62 points, three more than Campbell, which will visit Boone for the first time since the 2018-19 season.

TOP 25 ALERT

Mountaineers place multiple wrestlers in multiple Top 25 polls.

https://twitter.com/AppWrestling/status/...3362305024

https://twitter.com/AppWrestling/status/...9622424579

https://twitter.com/AppWrestling/status/...5879137288

Season starts in FOUR days

https://twitter.com/WINWrestlingMag/stat...7553499146

https://www.win-magazine.com/2021/11/03/...-climbers/

Quote:At the time, with a handful of All-Americans and the occasional Mountaineer surfacing in the brackets at the NCAA Division I Championships, App State wrestling was by no means obsolete, but also not viewed as a contender on a national level.

Fast forward to 2021 and Bentley’s Mountaineers should be viewed as such.

With 52 NCAA qualifiers and four All-Americans to his credit, coupled with a dominating 44-5 conference dual-meet record in the past seven seasons, the program has proved its worth from an individual and team standpoint.

3 Days Left!!

The App State Men had a really solid Mountaineer Invitational, which featured 24 ranked wrestlers from the Big Ten, Pac-12, ACC, Big 12, MAC and Southern conferences, the Apps had 6 finalists and 2 Open Champions.

https://appstatesports.com/news/2021/11/...ional.aspx



After this weekend's Invitational the App team has 3 Top 25 ranked individuals from FloWrestling and 7 Top 30 from InterMat.



https://twitter.com/AppWrestling/status/...5914253319

https://twitter.com/AppWrestling/status/...9669500929

More rankings will trickle in in the next few hours but having Millner in the Top 10 in both Flo and InterMat is ******* awesome.


Hi Hi Yikas

Really wish I understood this sport more. My FIL is real big into it as his brother used to train wrestlers with Team USA.

Going to be a sell out today in Boone when App hosts #5 NCSU.

https://twitter.com/AppWrestling/status/...9252923395

Raising relief items for the tornado disaster as well.

30 minutes before first match.

https://twitter.com/AppStateGrind/status...3963797506

https://twitter.com/AppWrestling/status/...8652358657


It's rocking. Mostly locals and some leftover upperclassmen as the school year is over.

(11-16-2021 03:20 PM)gdunn Wrote:  Really wish I understood this sport more. My FIL is real big into it as his brother used to train wrestlers with Team USA.

It’s a great, intense sport. My son wrestled some as an early teen, his high school won some state championships. Ashville Alabama is becoming a wrestling Mecca in this state. Wish more schools than Huntingdon College(DIII) in this state sponsored the sport.