(05-31-2022 06:34 PM)AssKickingChicken Wrote:  

(05-31-2022 05:48 PM)AZcats Wrote:  

(05-31-2022 05:01 PM)AssKickingChicken Wrote:  I haven’t seen an official announcement on launching a program, but the University of Montevallo, a D2 school in Alabama, is advertising for a head wrestling coach on the school’s website.

I know we have a Montevallo grad on here and was wondering if he knew anything about it.

Apologies if this is the wrong place to put this but I didn’t think it deserved a new thread and this seemed like the best place.

In the last few years schools have been adding a men's and women's teams together, kind of disappointing that this looks to be just men.

Are you disappointed they have lacrosse and volleyball for women but not for men?

If this is trying to make a point, it's nothing but a big whiff. I'm not disappointed at all mainly because Montevallo announced the addition of men's lacrosse in 2016 and won the inaugural game in 2018. As I said and Todor explained further, it's become standard to add both programs together by schools with neither program.

According to the NCAA Directory, there are 40 women's wrestling programs including 17 in D2. Women's Wrestling, Triathlon, and Acrobatics & Tumbling are all in line to be elevated from Emerging Sport to Championship status within the next 5 years.