Wrestling 21-22

[ugarte]

New season, new thread.

No preview yet but new HC Mike Grey announced that the first dual meet of the season will be at Stanford against his mentor and Cornell's last coach, Rob Koll.

[dag14]

Pretty sure the Stanford dual is in Ithaca.

[billhoward]

Is there enough runway at ITH for the Stanford Athletics Boeing Business Jet?

[klehner]

New season, new thread.

No preview yet but new HC Mike Grey announced that the first dual meet of the season will be at Stanford against his mentor and Cornell's last coach, Rob Koll.

At Cornell to open the new Friedman Arena (built by Koll).

Classy move.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Is there enough runway at ITH for the Stanford Athletics Boeing Business Jet?

They can fly into SYR and hire limos.

[David Harding]

Is there enough runway at ITH for the Stanford Athletics Boeing Business Jet?

Larry72 could give an authoritative answer to that question.  We can all do the approximate arithmetic.  

https://jetadvisors.com/boeing-business-jet/

The BBJ, despite its size and its maximum takeoff weight of 171,000 pounds, can take off from a sea level runway in 5,885 feet. At an altitude of 5,000 feet and a temperature of 77°F, the required runway distance increases to 9,645 feet.

ITH is at 1099' altitude and has a 6977' runway.  https://airnav.com/airport/KITH.

It's too late at night to do anything but scale the runway need linearly.  5885 + (1099/5000)*(9645-5885) = 6711 feet

6711 < 6977, so, there appears to be enough runway.  There's another 150' feet of grooved pavement beyond that.

[ugarte]

whoops gotta read closer. thanks for the correction.

[ugarte]

In coaching news, 2x NCAA champion and 2x world Bronze medalist Nick Gwiazdowski has joined the Cornell coaching staff as a volunteer assistant while training with Spartan RTC.

In other Spartan/coaching news, Spartan RTC has brought Frank Perrelli '12 back to Ithaca as its head coach.

[Ken711]

Donnie Vinson will be joining the wrestling staff as Associate Head Coach.  Vinson comes from the NC State University program.  He formerly was an assistant at Cornell from 2014-17.

[Al DeFlorio]

Donnie Vinson will be joining the wrestling staff as Associate Head Coach.  Vinson comes from the NC State University program.  He formerly was an assistant at Cornell from 2014-17.

Vinson is one of the few with a decision over Dake, 5-3 at 149 in 2011.

[ugarte]

Donnie Vinson will be joining the wrestling staff as Associate Head Coach.  Vinson comes from the NC State University program.  He formerly was an assistant at Cornell from 2014-17.

Vinson was also an All-American at Binghamton, finishing in third as a senior. And, as Al noted, his signature college win was a special one. He's from Whitney Point so if he was the same weight class as Dake in High School they probably faced each other then as well.

Also joining the staff is Kellen Russell, a 2x national champion at 141 for Michigan followed by 7 years coaching for his alma mater and the local RTC.

A couple of really good pickups for Grey, along with Gwiz (who probably is close to Vinson from NC State and Binghamton) and the return of Perrelli. A concentration of low weight guys, I suppose, but if Dake is still working with us and Gwiz is in the room the upper weights are in good hands.

[ithacat]

Donnie Vinson will be joining the wrestling staff as Associate Head Coach.  Vinson comes from the NC State University program.  He formerly was an assistant at Cornell from 2014-17.

Vinson was also an All-American at Binghamton, finishing in third as a senior. And, as Al noted, his signature college win was a special one. He's from Whitney Point so if he was the same weight class as Dake in High School they probably faced each other then as well.

Also joining the staff is Kellen Russell, a 2x national champion at 141 for Michigan followed by 7 years coaching for his alma mater and the local RTC.

A couple of really good pickups for Grey, along with Gwiz (who probably is close to Vinson from NC State and Binghamton) and the return of Perrelli. A concentration of low weight guys, I suppose, but if Dake is still working with us and Gwiz is in the room the upper weights are in good hands.

Sounds like an exciting staff Mike has put together. Looking forward to seeing what the roster looks like and how recruiting goes.

[George64]

Yianni going to Tokyo . . . as training partner for Kyle

[Swampy]

Paywall?

[George64]

Paywall?

Long article in the Rochester D&C, but here's the gist . . .

Yianni Diakomihalis didn't make the Olympic team, but he is in Tokyo to help U.S. win gold

While the drive for Yianni Diakomihalis to make the U.S. Olympic wrestling team was stopped, the Hilton graduate is landing in Tokyo anyway for the upcoming Olympics.

Kyle Dake needs training partners.

Diakomihalis, a two-time NCAA champion at Cornell University, plans on joining Team USA in order to help Dake chase a gold medal. Dake and the lighter weight Diakomihalis are teammates at Cornell. 

"If he needs me for an extra workout I want to be there, not because I have to but I want to," Diakomihalis said. "He's been so helpful to me."

While Diakomihalis has agreed to go to Japan, there remains a cloud over the Olympics, already postponed once due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Japanese and Olympic officials assure the most famous worldwide sporting event is "safe and secure" but coronavirus is taking enough of a toll on the island that parts of the nation are under a state of emergency. 

Whether Diamkomihalis ends up staying briefly or remaining until the completion of the Olympics — the four-time New York high school state champion lives and trains in Ithaca, unless at a Team USA camp — he has plenty of work to do for his own checklist. His plan in simple terms is to keep his career in international wrestling moving upward and forward after falling short of making the United States Olympic team. 

"I understand now what it takes at this level," Diakomihalis, 22, said. "I've had success at the high school level. I've had success at the collegiate level.

"I've had good results at the senior level, just not at the level I want them to be."