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STEVE KNIGHT WORKS TO IMPLEMENT NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM FOR EXCEL WRESTLING IN IOWA
Excel Wrestling, an official Junior Olympic
Program under the leadership of USA Wrestling, the
National Governing Body for Amateur Wrestling, is
in the development stages for Central Iowa. Currently,
Excel Wrestling runs year round training programs
in four states - Colorado, Wyoming, Wisconsin and
Missouri and has plans to begin their fifth national
development program here in Iowa this spring, '07.
Former ISU Cyclone NCAA All American Steve Knight
will run the program. Knight wrestled in his prep
years for Clinton winning two state high school
titles and three Junior National Titles. After earning
All American honors and winning the Big 8 Championship,
Knight stayed as an assistant coach at Iowa State
and trained for the 1992 Olympics. He represented
the US 14 times in international competition, winning
a gold medal at the Pan Ams before traveling to
Barcelona, Spain as an alternate/training partner
for the 1992 Olympics.
He has been a member of the USA Wrestling National
Coaching Staff for 12 years in Colorado, coaching
many national teams abroad and working with wrestlers
at the US Olympic Training Center. He has served
on the US Olympic Staff, was the head coach for
the 2004 Pan Ams and coached the 2005 World Cup.
He is also one of the coaches for Real Pro Wrestling,
coaching the New York Outrage team.
"It's good to be back in Iowa and I look forward
to the development of a new program for Excel Wrestling.
Central Iowa has a lot of great coaches and great
programs and the more our high school wrestlers
train in the off season, the better their chances
will be of moving forward to the college level.
Some say our program only attracts the die hard
wrestlers and that may be true to some extent, but
regardless, it helps these athletes to find that
next level of achievement," said Knight.
The Iowa Excel Year Round Training Program will
operate in two locations in Central Iowa, running
spring, summer and fall programs. There will be
an Ames location and a Des Moines location beginning
this spring in mid March. In early June, the weekly
summer program will begin with a fall session to
follow. Working with Knight will be longtime friend
and teammate, 2 x NCAA Champion Eric Voelker. For
more information, call 515.770.5127 or contact the
Excel Wrestling office at admin@excelwrestling.com |
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