Coach wants ISU wrestlers to be more aggressive

There is a good article in the USA Today on ISU wrestling Below is an excerpt.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Just winning isn’t good enough for Kevin Jackson.
The first-year Iowa State wrestling coach wants his athletes to dominate.

“We’re trying to teach complete wrestling, to wrestle in every situation, every position,” Jackson said Tuesday. “We want to be aggressive.”

Jackson has replaced Cael Sanderson, who stunned the wrestling community last spring when he left his alma mater to become the head coach at Penn State.

The Cyclones’ new coach also wrestled at Iowa State and, like Sanderson, won an Olympic gold medal. He inherits eight returning starters, including defending NCAA champion Jake Varner at 197 pounds, from a team that finished third at the national meet and shared the Big 12 title.

Read the entire USA Today Article here…