LVWC Kids Club members place at prestigious Journeymen/CK World Classic in Albany, NY
Dan Moran- Runner-up at 138
Caden Wright- 9th place at 160 (more…)
LVWC Welcomes Japan’s Takushoku University Wrestlers
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The LVWC hosted a Japanese Team for four days having great interaction with the Lehigh University wrestlers, as well as our resident athletes. Leading the Japanese was Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu who (more…)
Wolf finishes second at USA Maccabiah Games team trials
BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Lehigh sophomore Gordon Wolf made a bid to make the United States wrestling team at this summer’s Maccabiah Games in Israel as he competed at the Maccabiah USA Team Trials, Sunday at the Palestra in Philadelphia. Competing at 86 kg./189 lbs., Wolf came up just short of making the USA Maccabiah team, going 4-1 in a six-man round-robin to finish second at his weight class. (more…)
2017 LVWC Wine Mixer Photo Gallery
LVWC Wrestlers Off To Camp
Coaches Bill Zadick & Brent Metcalf will be working with these LVWC wrestlers on perfecting their techniques for the upcoming freestyle season. (more…)
LVWC athletes compete in Columbia
Two LVWC resident athletes, Nester Taffur and Santiago Martinez, competed in the Columbian National Tournament. with Taffur defeating Martinez 10-0.
Both made the finals with Taffur (Bolivar & LVWC), defeating Martinez (Bogota & LVWC) 10-0. Nestor
Taffur had 2 technical falls and Santi Martinez had a fall 8-0 in reaching the finals.
Winning this tournament qualifies Nestor for the 2017 Colombian National National Team and for the Pan Am Games.
World Cup, Iran: Day 8
Buxton/Rey
The stars lined up. United World Wrestling wanted Iran to be in the finals. We wanted to wrestle well through the pool of death to get to the finals. We wanted to wrestle Iran under these political pressures, in their arena. Ultimately, the World Cup set the stage for the Friday night fireworks of Iran vs USA. (more…)
World Cup, Iran: Day 7
Buxton/Rey
Yesterday was an amazing experience for me. The people of Iran are so passionate about wrestling and they cheered us on as we wrestled in a match in the second round. After our matched I stayed and watched Iran vs India, and Azerbaijan vs Georgia and the house was rockin! (more…)
World Cup, Iran: Day 6
Buxton/Rey
We wrestled 2nd in our pool but the first match was very exciting. Russia and Azeberjian tied 4 wins each and the classification points were tied as each match went all 3 points to 1 so classification points (more…)
World Cup, Iran: Day 5
Buxton/Rey
All the other teams have arrived and we all are in the same hotel. Weigh-ins were at 6 pm and everyone did really well with the weight control. Most of my day was spent watching (more…)