Incoming Wrestling Transfer: Shane Griffith 165lb., Stanford 2021 NCAA Champion
The wrestling portal is strong! From the Michigan Daily
"The Wolverines secured three All-American graduate transfers from Northwestern in April — Lucas Davison, Michael DeAugustino and Chris Cannon"
Our RTC is a main attraction! Huge for recruiting!
question coach - what's the difference between the RTCs, the Wrestling Club (like the CKWC) and then things like "Titan Mercury" and "Sunkist Kids" WCs? It seems like all of the RTCs are tied to a WC, and then all the wrestlers in the US Open were additionally part of Titan Mercury or Sunkist Kids. What's the difference?
RTC's are Regional Training Centers. Anyone can come there to train, international athletes, athletes from other clubs/RTC's (cross train, get different coaching), grad students like Adam Coon, Amine, Micic stay and train, guys from other coutries come in to get looks from our athletes. Current UofM athletes can compete under CKWC (our RTC) in freestlye/greco (US Open/Olympics/World Championships/Final X/Beat the Streets) The focus is on Freestlye and Greco, not folkstyle. Sunkist Kids, Titan Mercury, Nittany Lion Wrestling Club, New York Athletic Club (my coach trained there and wrestled Gable in the Trials), Cliff Keen Wrestling Club are all RTC's. There is a lot of cross training. Snyder left Ohio RTC to join Nittany Lion Wrestling Club to get different practice partners and to get coaching from Sanderson and crew. I think Surriano was in Sunkist before ours. It's almost like free agency training but most guys stick to regional RTC's or ones associated with their former college. RTC's and Wrestling Clubs are essentially the same thing, training grounds that help you skirt NCAA limitations. Guys from the current team can train with RTC members as well which is huge for their development.
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Yeah, very informative response. I was like, "What's an RTC?"
You shouldn't have to ask. When using lesser know acronyms, the poster should spell it out.
WYTBW?
Seems like a great kid with a good head on his shoulders.
Go blue!
Makes sense since he is transferring from the Michigan of the West :)
I know he might be a little light, but how's his post game?
Can he play the 4?
He can shoot a low single as well as Sabonis, watch out STAEE!
Lost in the finals in 2022 as well. Huge addition here! The Cliff Keen camp in AA is a huge help with guys like this.
One of the best RTC's in the nation, CKWC, with all the coaches, international athletes, and grad wrestlers they bring in.
Hell yeah!!!
Welcome, Mighty Mite!
Nice addition, wonder if he's bumping up to 174 as we already have 3 time all American Cam Amine at 165.
That seems likely to me. Griffith appears to be a bigger 165 pounder than Amine. I also wonder about Cannon and Ragusin--which one will bump up to 141? So the line-up would be this?
125 – DeAugustino
133 – Cannon/Ragusin
141 – Cannon/Ragusin
149 – Lamer
157 – Lewan? (he must have a year of Covid eligibility left)
165 – Amine
174 – Griffith
184 – Bullock
197 – Rogers
285 – Davison
I would expect Cannon to go 141. Ragusin I believe is 3-0 against him and I know beat him the last 2 years. Plus Cannon is older and should only be here a year.
Lamer just went into the portal himself. Which sticks. Really liked him.
Michigan’s recruiting class was stacked this past year. Ranked #1 or #2 I believe. I think they have 5 top 100 kids. Some very high. A number one at his weight a couple top 5. Most are light weights. Might be one of those hammers take 149 right from the start.
I hadn’t heard about Lamer entering the portal. That really does suck. I knew the recruiting class was really good, but was hoping they could all redshirt.
2023 class has 5 of the top 50 recruits committed with the possibility of still adding #7 overall.
Getting a former New Jersey State wrestling champion from Bergen Catholic High School like Shane Griffith to transfer to Michigan worked out well for the Wolverines when Nick Suriano made the switch from Rutgers to Michigan.
LINK to article about Griffith's reasons for choosing Michigan.
Thanks! I was like...'can't have worked out that well I don't remember a football recruit by that name' and then oh yeah.
ALSO: WOW the wrestling wikipedia pages have EACH MATCH of their career!?!!
Much more detailed than the page on "Dynamite Hack", exemplare gratia
Transfering from the Michigan of the West to Actual Michigan? I love it.
Great. Welcome, Mr. Griffith. Go Blue!