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After watching the ACCN this morning
Feb 19, 2022, 7:59 AM
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I really wish that Clemson would resurrect their wrestling program. Just added two women's sports so Title IX shouldn't be a problem.
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Re: After watching the ACCN this morning
Feb 19, 2022, 9:09 AM
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The overall student population has shifted towards women over the last several years which is what drives the title IX requirements. The athletic scholarship mix must match overall student mix, and I believe last year was the first time in Clemson's history that we were more than 50% female. So, yeah even though we've added more women's scholarships over the last few years there's still not a surplus that would support wrestling.
Would be cool though. I was lucky enough as a kid to see Sam Henson's last match at Clemson; that dude was a beast.
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Re: After watching the ACCN this morning
Feb 19, 2022, 9:28 AM
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Geech wresting must have been before my time . I cannot remember ever having a wresting team. Popular sport in the high schools in my area.
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Re: After watching the ACCN this morning
Feb 19, 2022, 10:10 AM
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Henson was possibly the most dominant athlete Clemson ever had with a career record of 71-0. The wresting program was actually top 10 in its last year of existence. The thought of dropping at top 10 sports program just seems crazy; of course this was the same administration that fired Danny Ford and gave us Hatfield and West.
https://clemsontigers.com/clemson-history-sam-henson-wrestling-champion/Clemson History: Sam Henson, Wrestling Champion By Sam Blackman It’s been 20 years ago since Sam Henson won his last National Wrestling Championship at Clemson. In one of the most outstanding careers of any Clemson athlete, Henson won the National Championship at the 118-pound classification in 1993 and 1994 and finished with an incredible 71-0 mark in two years at Tigertown. In 1993, the Tigers went 19-9, including a 13th-place finish at the NCAA Tournament March 18-20. Henson, who captured the 118-pound National Championship, led the Tigers. Henson became the first Tiger Wrestler to go undefeated during a season, with an unbelievable 34-0 record. Also during this season, the Tigers had three ACC champions for the first time in the history of the program. Henson won the 118-pound crown, Troy Bouzakis captured the 126-pound title, and Tim Morrissey earned the 177-pound championship. For all three wrestlers, it was their first trip to the NCAA tournament. In 1993-94, Clemson had its highest finish ever at the 1994 NCAA Tournament on March 17-19, with a seventh-place showing. Henson led the way again, as he won the 118-pound National Championship. For the second year in a row, Henson went undefeated and finished with an impressive 37-0 record. Tim Morrissey also had a strong performance at the NCAAs, earning All-America honors with a third-place finish in the 190-pound weight class. Morrissey had a 31-5 record for the season. In the second-to-last season of Clemson Wrestling, the Tigers finished second in the 1994 ACC Tournament, with three individual champions—Sam Henson (118), Mike Mammon (150), and Tim Morrissey (190). Following the tournament, Henson was named ACC Wrestler of the Year. Clemson was 14-6 and 3-2 in the ACC that season, for a second-place tie in the ACC standings. Henson recalls his Clemson career and his second home. “As soon as I flew in and took my first visit to Clemson, I fell in love with the place,” he said. “Clemson had great facilities and the environment was unbelievable! I was a transfer from Missouri and I as soon as I saw Clemson, I knew it was the place for me.” As for most memorable experiences, Henson has plenty of them. “Winning the two national championships was of course the most memorable in my college career. Later on in my career I won the World Title in Iran and was a Silver Medalist in the 2000 Olympics. At the age of 36, I competed at the 2006 World Championships in China and won the bronze medal. “I had a chance to travel to a lot of places, but I consider Clemson as home. I love the place and it will always mean a lot of me. I’m glad to be a member of the Clemson family.”
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Re: After watching the ACCN this morning
Feb 19, 2022, 10:48 AM
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Great info Geech! Thanks for sharing. I remember the Ford years very well but must not have been into wrestling at that age. That is odd to shut down something that was actually a positive for Clemson athletics.
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Re: After watching the ACCN this morning
Feb 19, 2022, 10:28 AM
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Geech wresting must have been before my time . I cannot remember ever having a wresting team. Popular sport in the high schools in my area.
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Re: After watching the ACCN this morning
Feb 19, 2022, 10:29 AM
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What is a wresting team?????
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Re: After watching the ACCN this morning
Feb 19, 2022, 10:44 AM
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Not real sure lol.
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Re: After watching the ACCN this morning
Feb 19, 2022, 3:50 PM
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Probably ended about'79. I had former teammates on the team. In football terms I was probably a 2* but as far as physical and mental conditional aspects it was worth the journey
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Re: After watching the ACCN this morning
Feb 19, 2022, 9:19 AM
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Bowden benefited having a men’s track program. Would have loved to see some of Dabo’s talent past few years hit the track. Bad move getting rid of track/field.
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Feb 19, 2022, 10:21 AM
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https://clemsontigers.com/mens-fencing-at-clemson/Men’s Fencing at Clemson
It’s been 33 years since Clemson fielded a men’s fencing team.
The last year that Clemson sponsored fencing was in 1982, and that season was a special one for the Tigers.
Hal Cooledge starts the fencing program
The fencing program began at Clemson in the 1960s.
Professor Hal Cooledge of the Architecture Department started Clemson Fencing as an outlet for his students. Still considered a club program, the Tigers finished tied for 15th in the 1966 NCAA meet in Durham, NC.
Cooledge once said that “fencing was a great way for his architecture student to relax and have something else to think about besides academics.”
Cooledge joined the Clemson faculty in 1956 and retired in May 1996. During his 40-year association with College of Architecture, he was a well-respected teacher, researcher, and author. He was instrumental during the 1960s in the effort to restore Thomas Green Clemson’s collection of paintings and also funded a professorship in architecture.
A Georgia native, Cooledge graduated from Harvard University. After World World II, he held a research position with an oil company until the Texas City Disaster in 1947, the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history, which involved a chain reaction of fires and explosions that killed almost 600 people.
He returned to graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania to study art and architectural history and taught at several other institutions before accepting his Clemson position in 1956.
Music was one of Cooledge’s passions. He was considered a superb pianist and was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Guild. He was also cast in a speaking role as Dean Collins in “The Midnight Man,” a 1974 murder mystery movie filmed on the Clemson campus and in the surrounding communities.
Although considered a club program, the Clemson fencing team had early success in the NCAA Tournament. Wayne Baker, a football player, was the first Tiger to place in the top 10 at an NCAA meet, finishing ninth in the Sabre in 1969 in South Bend, IN.
The Clemson Athletic Department and the Atlantic Coast Conference started to sponsor men’s fencing in 1970.
(Hal Cooledge is pictured below)
Charlie Poteat Takes Over
Charlie Poteat was named the Clemson head fencing coach prior to the 1975 season.The Poteat era showcased constant improvement and top-25 finishes in the NCAA Championship. After his rookie campaign, the Tigers were top-25 finishers in the NCAA event, placing as high as second in the 1982 campaign. He won four consecutive ACC Regular Season Championships, from 1979 to 1982. (1979 team Below)
Clemson finished fourth as a team in the 1979 NCAA meet and ninth in the 1979 championship.The Tigers won the ACC Tournament in 1979. In 1980, Clemson was tied for fifth in the NCAA meet. Clemson finished fourth in the 1981 championship and an all-time high second place at the NCAA meet on March 16-18, 1982. Clemson was 16-0 vs. the ACC in the last three years of competition. In the last four years of the program, the Tigers were 56-7 in dual match competition.
Poteat was the National Coach of the Year after guiding the Tigers to a second-place national finish in 1982, the final year of the program. The team finished in the nation’s top 10 for the last five years of his tenure. They also finished in the nation’s top five four out of the last five years the Tigers fielded a fencing team. They won the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament in 1979. Poteat’s Tigers defeated his opponents by an average score of 19-8 over his last four seasons. He finished with a career record of 89-22 in eight years as the head fencing coach at Clemson, for a .802 pct. It was a very successful program at Clemson.
(Charlie Poteat is pictured below.)
Change of Schools and Sports for Poteat
After he left Clemson, Poteat went to Lincoln Memorial University in the fall of 1984, serving as Head Resident at a dormitory, teaching physical education, and coaching men’s tennis.
Poteat decided he would stay local and purchased a small farm in the Speedwell area that he quickly called home.
Athletically, throughout nineteen seasons at the helm of the Railsplitter program, Coach Poteat’s teams reached the NCAA Men’s Tennis Tournament six times and the NAIA Tournament once, earning respect not only in the Gulf South Conference as one of its top programs, but also throughout the entire southeast United States.
During the 2004 spring season, which turned out to be his last, Coach Poteat guided his team to a third-place Gulf South Conference Eastern Division finish, while completing the year with an 11-5 record, which ended in the NCAA South Regional Tournament.
Poteat died of cancer on July 14, 2004 at the age of 54. On October 14, 2011, the tennis building at the Lincoln Memorial University Tennis Center was named in his honor.
Steve Wasserman
Steve Wasserman, a three-time All-American, reflected back on the program.
“I guess I ended up at Clemson by accident,” said Wasserman. I had won the state championship in New Jersey my junior and senior seasons. I was also set to go to the University of Pennsylvania. I had heard of the Clemson program. Coach Poteat started recruiting me and I took a visit to Clemson.
“I loved what I saw,” said Wasserman,(pictured above). “Clemson had academically what I wanted to study and when he offered me the scholarship, I accepted. I’m glad I made that decision.
“Coach Poteat was young—not much older than we were. He was energetic. He had fenced at North Carolina. He was dedicated to the team and its success. It was an honor to be on the team.He was a great recruiter.”
“In my senior season [1982], we knew we had a good team. We had the people to compete. We believed we could compete for the National Championship.We had done well in dual meets and in the tournaments we had that year.
“We went to the NCAA National Tournament and we fell short. We finished in second place. It was a great year. Sure you want to win it all, but we had a lot of success that season.
“We were surprised when we received the news that they were ending the program. We were disappointed. We had developed into one of the best programs in the country.”
Clemson dropped the men’s fencing in 1982 after Wasserman’s senior season. The Tigers finished second in the NCAA meet, the highest finish for the program.
“Looking back, I was happy with my decision to attend Clemson,” Wasserman said. “My sister graduated from Clemson and she did really well. I also met my wife at Clemson. There’s no question that some decisions change your life forever.I graduated with an economics degree and later went to law school. I still come back for Clemson football games and stay very active with Clemson.I simply fell in love with the place,” said Wasserman
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You get men's AND women's
Feb 19, 2022, 10:22 AM
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