Two Americans won gold at the Canada Cup Junior Championship on July 5. North Rockland’s own Joe Slane was one of them.
Slane beat an American, a Canadian, and two Koreans to win the 58 kg (127 pound) championship. The toughest match was against Canada’s Duncan Moffat. Moffat beat Slane 5-0 in the first round before Slane came back to win the second and third rounds. Slane swept his other three opponents.
The rising senior had never even heard of the Canada Cup before Anibal Nieves, a friend of his father and the coach at Western New England College, suggested that he enter. He trained at Nieves’s house in Springfield, Mass. before driving eight hours to the University of Guelph, which is about an hour west of Toronto.
“It was really shocking because I didn’t think people would be from Austria, Korea, everything like that,” he said.
The only other American to win gold was Erin Golston in the girls division.
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Congrats JOE!!
Hope to See you at the Tom Ryan Clinic this Friday
Date: July 31
Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location: 245 Rt. 100 Somers NY (Iowa Style Wrestling Club @ the Somers Sport Fitness Center)
Cost: $25/ person
Tom Ryan is arguably the best coach in America today. In just a brief tenure he has taken Ohio State to the top of NCAA teams.
In just three seasons of work, Tom Ryan has led Ohio State wrestling to back-to-back second-place finishes at the NCAA Championships, an accomplishment that earned him the 2009 National Coach of the Year honor. Last season, Ryan and his coaching staff produced four All-Americans for the second-consecutive season, including two-time NCAA champion at 141 pounds J Jaggers, national runner-ups Reece Humphrey (133) and Mike Pucillo (184) and junior Lance Palmer earned his third All-America honor. In addition to NCAA coach of the year, Ryan received his second-consecutive Rev Coach of the Year honor in 2009, becoming the only two-time recipient.
In one of the tightest team races in recent NCAA wrestling history, Ohio State earned its second-consecutive runner-up finish in 2009 with 92 points, trailing Iowa by just four and a half points. The Scarlet and Gray put forth the squad’s strongest effort for the national title in program history, qualifying nine of 10 possible wrestlers to the championships and advancing a meet-high three student-athletes to the title match. During the regular season, Ryan, who is in his third year with the Scarlet and Gray, led Ohio State to a 16-2 record, including a 7-1 mark in the Big Ten Conference. The Buckeyes won seven league matches for the first time since 1991-92.
Come see and hear for yourself from one of the NCAA’s top coaches.
Wrestling is right around the corner… lets get this blog back up !!!
Can someone take down Joe Slanes picture.He got his3 months of fame, now its time to move-on.
Did they fire this Jake character too?? Is anyone working this blog?? HELLO
HELLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Journal News. Anyone there??? Season starts in a week can we get this blog up and running. Somone have Tony P’s #??? Need him back desperately!!