Old Dominion heavyweight and Spartan alum Matt Tourdot is off to a solid start to his collegiate career. Heading into the winter break, Tourdot owns a 10-5 record while going 3-0 in his last three matches. Those matches include a 6-0 victory over Princeton’s Bobby Grogan and 3-1 victory over Rider’s Evan Craig both on December 3rd and an 8-7 decision against Rutgers’ Daniel Hopkins back on December 2nd.
Through 15 matches, Tourdot has one major decision, is 3-2 in duals and has scored 42 team points for the Monarchs. The dual against Rider on Saturday was the last competition for Old Dominion until the Southern Scuffle on January 1st.
Matt Tourdot is 1-0 in his college career after defeating Chattanooga’s Kevin Malone 4-3 at 285 pounds Friday evening in Chattanooga, TN. Tourdot defeated Malone, also a redshirt freshman, to help the Monarchs to a 31-9 victory on the road at Chattanooga. Stay tuned to Spartanwrestling.com for more updates on Tourdot’s progress throughout the season. Congrats Matt!
Spartan alum and 2010 state champion Matt Tourdot has won his wrestleoff and will be Old Dominion’s heavyweight for the 2011-12 season. Tourdot red-shirted last season and will compete for the Monarchs at heavyweight as a freshman. Throughout the season, Spartanwrestling.com will be providing updates on Tourdot’s progress. Congrats Matt and best of luck this season!!
With Sparta’s 41-20 victory over Tomah on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010, the Spartans ended Tomah’s 35-match MVC winning streak and earned their first conference title since the 2003-04 season. With the win, the Spartans also pushed their regular season dual record to 17-0, which remains the best start in program history.
As always, this video will be archived in the video page at the top.
The full video can be found on its Vimeo page here.
And here is the video…
Individual matches can be found at the times below…
0:00 – 9:00 – Brandon Brueggen vs. Ross Lynch (Tomah) 9:00 – 14:03 – Jordan Stanek vs. Josh VonHaden (Tomah) 14:03 – 16:00 – Matt Tourdot vs. Mike VonHaden (Tomah) 16:00 – 18:36 – Steve Stevenson vs. Lucas Stromberg-Windau (Tomah) 18:36 – 26:30 – Bryce Nowaczyk vs. Tanner Dworak (Tomah) 26:30 – 34:35 – Adam Wiedl vs. Zurik Adler (Tomah) 34:35 – 40:41 – Brandon Rickert vs. Skylar McCarthy (Tomah) 40:41 – 45:06 – Toby Mosley vs. Trenton Littlegeorge (Tomah) 45:06 – 54:40 – Derek VonRuden vs. Damion Reekie (Tomah) 54:40 – 1:04:10 – Jesse Amundson vs. Joey Organ (Tomah) 1:04:10 – 1:13:21 – Nick Anderson vs. Jacob Dubord (Tomah) 1:13:21 – 1:21:39 – Morgan Leis vs. Tyler VonHaden (Tomah)
This week we bring to you seven videos from the 2010 State Tournament, which included Matt Tourdot capping off a 50-0 season with a 7-0 victory over Lodi’s Cody Endres in the 215-pound division two state finals. Other videos include matches of Jordan Stanek, Adam Wiedl and Brandon Rickert.
As always you can find these videos on our videos page and on Sparta Wrestling’s Youtube channel long after this post disappears from the front page. Now onto the video action!
This year you will notice an explosion of videos here on Spartanwrestling.com. Tape from the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and more will be uploaded to Sparta Wrestling’s Youtube Channel, linked here from our video page and brought to you so you can relive some of the greatest moments in Spartan wrestling history anywhere and at anytime. [...]
Matt Tourdot finished 4-2 at the Penn State Open, but did not place. Matt was one victory short of qualifying for the seventh place match. Here is a rundown of how Matt’s tournament went… Match 1 – Tourdot defeats Paul Schweighardt (Sacred Heart) 4-0 Match 2 – Tourdot defeats Kyle Cowan (Pennsylvania) 6-4 Match 3 [...]
Wrestling season is just around the corner. In about six weeks, the Spartans will embark on their 2010-11 season and defense of their MVC championship. In the meantime, this website will see updated stats, some new sections and periodic updates leading up to the season. Keep checking back for those. For now, check out this [...]
Tourdot’s state championship run is in a group of six plays nominated for Play of the Week on WKBT.com. Here is how you can help him win the contest… Click the following link http://bit.ly/acDu6u To the right of the video, you will see the opinion poll. Vote for “Sparta Wrestling.” That’s it! To see the [...]
With Matt Tourdot’s 7th place finish at this weekend’s National High School Coaches Association’s Senior National Finals, he enters into an elite club of Wisconsin wrestlers to have medaled at this prestigious tournament. Here’s a list of previous Wisconsin medal winners… 2003 – Josh Wagner (7th at 130), Sparta’s Trent Brooks lost to Wagner in [...]
11:53am — Matt Tourdot closed out this year’s Senior Nationals with a victory by injury default over Kansas’ Kyle Caylor. His victory yesterday over New York’s Kyle Colling secured All-American honors for the second straight year. No Spartan has ever achieved high school All-American status before Tourdot and he has done it twice. On the [...]
Old Dominion heavyweight and Spartan alum Matt Tourdot is off to a solid start to his collegiate career. Heading into the winter break, Tourdot owns a 10-5 record while going 3-0 in his last three matches. Those matches include a 6-0 victory over Princeton’s Bobby Grogan and 3-1 victory over Rider’s Evan Craig both on December 3rd and an 8-7 decision against Rutgers’ Daniel Hopkins back on December 2nd.
