Thursday, February 14, 2013
The International Olympic Committee announced Tuesday it will cut wrestling from the Olympic games, beginning in 2020.
Like us on Facebook | Get our newsletter | Follow us on Twitter | Start a blog A strong tradition in many Dakota County communities was wrestled down Tuesday, when the International Olympic Committee announced it will cut wrestling from the Olympic games, beginning in 2020. Mark Hall II, a nationally ranked freshman at Apple Valley High School, has already won two Minnesota championships and spent half of last year training at the U.S. Olympic wrestling facility in Colorado. "I've dreamed about it ever since I was a kid, then in 2020 they take it away," he told the Pioneer Press. "It's one of the very first Olympic sports. How can they just drop it?" His father, Mark Hall, told the paper that his son would aim to wrestle on the Olympic …
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Hall would have been a freshman at AVHS, and already had won two individual state wrestling championships as a seventh and eighth grader.
Like us on Facebook | Get our newsletter | Follow us on Twitter | Start a blog Would-be Apple Valley High School freshman Mark Hall—who won two individual state wrestling championships as a seventh and eighth grader, and helped Apple Valley wrestling to two team state titles in those years—likely won't be a student or wrestler at AVHS this fall, he told Apple Valley-Rosemount Patch via Twitter on Tuesday. The Pioneer Press reported on Tuesday that "a person with knowledge of the situation" said Hall wasn't enrolled at AVHS. Hall told Patch via Twitter on Tuesday that he's in Michigan with his family now, and likely will attend school there. Hall told Patch via Twitter: "I am very happy with the level apple valley wrestling brought me too […
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Jackson was a part of all 20 of the wrestling program's team state championships.
Apple Valley High School Head Wrestling Coach Jim Jackson has retired from coaching, the school announced Tuesday. Jackson, who coached in the program for 32 years, plans to keep teaching in District 196; he currently teaches physical education at Falcon Ridge Middle School in Apple Valley. Jackson's decision was based heavily on wanting to spend more time with his family, according to a press release from the school. Jackson was part of all 20 state-championship wrestling teams at Apple Valley High School, the release says. He was an assistant coach for 15 years before becoming the head coach for the 1995-96 school year. As a coach, he has the highest winning percentage (95.8 percent) in the history of Minnesota wrestling, with a …
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