OUA Championships update

OUA Championship wrestlers invade Alumni Hall Feb. 20

Feb. 20 OUA Championships at Alumni Hall, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

By Trent Williams

LONDON, Ont. – The OUA Wrestling Championships are invading Alumni Hall on Saturday, Feb. 20, as the best male and female wrestlers from across the province will vie for OUA gold and spots in the CIS Championships in Calgary. The Top 3 finishers in each weight category qualify for nationals.

The wrestling event will be the second straight event hosted by the Western Mustangs. Just two weeks before the OUA Championships, the Mustangs hosted the annual Western Open, which produced mixed results from all the universities competing in this OUA championships. The Mustangs placed third in the varsity competition, while the Brock Badgers were the only other team that placed in the Top 3 overall standings of the teams that are competing in this year’s OUAs.

The top performer at the Western Open and a wrestler to keep an eye on will be Jennifer Nguyen who won Westerns lone gold in the competition in the women’s 51kg division.

Heading into the OUA championships the Brock Badgers will be the team with a target on their backs. Their men’s team is the 15-time defending male champions and women’s team have won every championship but three in the 12-year history of OUA women’s wrestling.

The rest of the teams that will be looking to dethrone the Badgers from OUA wrestling supremacy will include the Mustangs, Guelph Gryphons, Queen’s Gaels, Lakehead Thunderwolves, McMaster Marauders and Toronto Varsity Blues who all have wrestlers representing their schools.

You can follow along all the wrestling action live on www.westernmustangs.ca starting at 10 a.m. on Feb. 20 as the action kicks off at Alumni Hall. Medal matches will begin at approximately 3:30 p.m. Splitdraw.com will also be on hand to broadcast the event, available early next week on tape delay at www.splitdraw.com.