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World Team Trials Notes
By Jason Bryant
jbryant@intermatwrestle.com
Miranda not too far from mats in Ames
2004 Olympic silver medalist Patricia Miranda is taking time off from competition while she’s at Yale Law School, but that’s not kept her far from the mats at the 2005 World Team Trials.
“This year, I’m paying back the girls that helped me train for the Olympics,” Miranda said.
“I want to pass on a little bit of what I know,” she continued.
Miranda hasn’t ruled out retirement and hasn’t ruled out a return to the mat, but international competition and law school are according to Miranda, “two drastically different things.”
“It’s been really emotionally overwhelming,” Miranda said of the gap between the closing ceremonies in Athens and orientation at Yale.
On the airwaves
A familiar voice has been missing from Takedown Wrestling Radio’s broadcast of the 2005 World Team Trials – Scott Casber. Casber’s not missing from event, in fact, he’s spent just as much time on the microphone in Ames as he usually does, but Casber teamed up with Sandy Stevens to announce the event.
Don’t worry, though, Casber will return to Takedown Radio soon enough, but filling in for Casber this weekend has been Steve Foster and a variety of guests.
The championship series broadcast featured Iowa State’s Nick Passolano and Scott Coleman. Mark Cody, Jim Ravannack, and Steve Fraser along with a host of others have spent time on the broadcast over the weekend.
Around the mats
Saturday’s first session was wrestled on five mats, with men’s freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling on two mats, while the women’s freestyle competition mat was in the center of the arena.
After the tournament was whittled down to the challenge tournament finals, platforms were brought in and the two finals mats were raised from the floor level.
Sunday’s finals series were also both wrestled on the only two mats left on the Hilton Coliseum floor. ...
Sunday morning’s announced paid attendance was 1,818, while first day attendance figures for session one and two were roughly 1,600 and 1,700. Attendance at World Team Trials is usually well below that of the Olympic Trials.
The 2004 Olympic Trials had a final session attendance of 9,458.
Next year’s World Team Trials site has not been determined, but according to John Fuller of USA Wrestling, the process for selecting next year’s site has not even reached the finalization stage.
One possibility would be having the event in Stillwater, Okla., on the same weekend as the Wrestling Hall of Fame inductions.
It’s also possible for the event to return to Ames, but other college campuses are under consideration.
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