Wing Open Semi-Finals Wednesday February 20, 1630 Cadet Gymnasium

Dave simon cs-40 132 mike mises cs-32

Baley ball cs-04 139 gavin foley cs-16

Nate Liptak cs-40 147 ken Kaczmarek cs-31

Sean may cs-38 147 mike dunn cs-13

Ryan price cs-24 156 rudy bowen cs-16

Daryn nelson cs-26 156 joe Silvio cs-26

James dunn cs-33 165 justin lee cs-39

Cliff moore cs-19 165 austin almand cs-31

Jacob Lambach cs-24 175 andy Catoire cs-40

Elon brumfield cs-27 175 lucas Gagliardi cs-02

Casey butikofer cs-08 195 chris Johnson c-14

Richard Kenny cs-37 195 william lindberg cs-07

Cory Tintzman cs-36 hywt ross elder cs-21

Dan Winningham cs-20 hywt josh Henderson casteel cs-35

Boxing Wing Open: Check out this YouTube video to get you ready for the 50th Wing Open!!

2 minutes on first one, 1 minute on the second

CSTV interviews Coach Weichers with comments from Strick and an "enhanced" Alex Cline http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEYAVxnhgIw

Here is one on 4 time Willie Lloyd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJqFbEl0fKI

Wing Open Season Kicks Off 50th year for Air Force Boxing

Wing Open Season Kicks Off Thursday for Air Force Boxing

This is the 50th year of Wing Open action at the Academy.

Feb. 5, 2008

USAF ACADEMY, Colo. - An exciting month of Academy boxing action kicks off on Thursday (Feb. 7), as Air Force opens competition for the 50th Wing Open Tournament. Three preliminary bouts will be contested in the Cadet Gym's Upper Boxing Room, beginning at 4:30 p.m.

All three bouts will be in the 156-pound weight class. Senior Ryan Price will face freshman Nick Holland, while freshman Martynas Smitas will toe the line with sophomore John Doeseckle. Senior Daryn Nelson will wrap up the evening against freshman Cameron Carter.

The Wing Open, which began in 1958 with just four bouts, has grown into one of the most anticipated events on the Academy calendar. Proving how fierce competition during the Wing Open Championships is, over the past 49 years, only 11 Falcons have claimed four consecutive Wing Open titles.

The champions of the Wing Open will form the core of the team that will represent the Academy in national competition. The weight divisions begin at 112 pounds and continue through 125, 132, 139, 147, 156, 165, 175, 185, 195 and heavyweight. Although the championship is a culmination of a year of hard work and dedication for the winning boxers, it is also the start of a second season of competition. The 12 Wing Open victors, or "The Dirty Dozen", form the nucleus of the Academy team that will compete at the regional and national meets.

The winners will advance to the quarterfinal round of competition on Thursday, Feb. 14. The quarterfinal and semifinal (Feb. 20) bouts will whittle down the field to the final 24 contenders that will take to the ring in Clune Arena on March 2.

USAFA Boxing Results in Reno, Notes from Coach

The USAFA Boxing team competed in Reno on Friday, February 1, 2008. Results are below. The Wing Open competition begins Thursday, February 7, 2008 in the Cadet Gymnasium and concludes with the celebration of the 50th Cadet Boxing Wing Open on March 2, 2008 at 2pm (1400). We hope you can make it. For more information on the weekend's events please contact michaeljensen@remax.net or look at the Friends of Boxing group on www.zoomienation.com

Reno Results


1. 145 LBS Bailey Ball AFA DEC David Keegan CAL

2. 185 LBS Chris Johnson AFA DEC Jason Crocco UNLV

3. 145 LBS Saivikanth Badreli NEVADA DEC Isan Wei CAL

4. 185 LBS James Gardner NEVADA DEC Eric Allen CAL

5. 164 LBS Jacob Munson-Decker NEVADA DEC Austin Almand AFA

6. 165 LBS Greg Murrell UNLV DEC Travis Murray COAST GUARD

7. 158 LBS Ryan Kotey NEVADA DEC Daryn Nelson AFA

8. 147 LBS Thomas Gennaro NEVADA DEC Sean May AFA

9. 135 LBS David Schacter NEVADA RSC-3 Alex Shin AFA

10. 185 LBS Kenny Dyer-Redner NEVADA DEC Boyce Loomis AFA

The Falcons had a tough weekend in Reno where AFA Boxers lost some close bouts to Nevada. The hometown Nevada boxers were able squeak out some razor thin decisions along the course of the night. AFA boxers all came to fight and left everything in the ring despite a hostile Nevada crowd that packed into the El Dorado Hotel ballroom. Please congratulate C1C Daryn Nelson who was named the boxer of the week. Daryn soundly boxed Nevada’s defending national champion and throughout the course of the bout took charge of the action pushing the attack over the course of the three rounds scoring many points with his excellent ring presence and generalship. The Falcons will be in action this Thursday February 7, 2008 for the Wing Open Tournament preliminary bouts.

Coach

Randy Spetman '76 to be new FSU AD

Spetman to be named FSU's AD

By Steve Ellis DEMOCRAT SENIOR WRITER



Florida State will try to fly among the elite athletic programs again under retired Col. Randy Spetman.

The Utah State athletic director who also held that position for nearly nine years at the United States Air Force Academy will be announced as Dave Hart's replacement during a Monday morning news conference.


Spetman, 55 and a graduate of the Air Force Academy, surfaced as the leading candidate out of a search coordinated between national consultant Chuck Neinas and FSU President T.K. Wetherell.

This was not Spetman's first try to become the head of an athletic department in this state. He was a candidate but passed over by South Florida in 2004, when he was pushed by Neinas as a candidate. Spetman, during that same spring, also did not get the same position at East Carolina University. He was later hired by Utah State.

Spetman explained to the FSU search commitee how he was passed by those two schools, a concern among some FSU fans as it became apparent Spetman would be FSU's next director.
"I actually thought I had the job (at USF) to find out that I did not get it," Spetman said. "One of the concerns was from the donor base down there that I was too recently out of the Air Force and I would run it like a military organization. And could I fundraise?

"I was actually verbally hired to be the athletics director (at ECU) from a new president who was not on campus yet," Spetman added. "When (he arrived) he found out that a donor, there again, was very concerned with my fundraising ability and they opted not to take the chance."
Fundraising is not a primary responsibility for FSU's director of athletics and Spetman, in the view of several committee members, dispelled concerns about his running FSU's program like a military organization.

"To work in athletics for many, many years and you look to those programs the you look up to, want to emulate and this is one of the premier ones," Spetman told the search committee last week. "This is a great opportunity for me in light of what I would want to be in life."

The son of a banker, farmer and World War II veteran, Spetman's edcuational resume includes an engineering degree from the Air Force Academy, where he played football after first being placed in the academy's preparatory school because the English score in his standard achievement test was low. There, Spetman said, he learned how to study and went on to start at defensive end and earn a master's degree in management and supervision from Central Michigan. He also earned a master's degree in national security strategy from the National War Academy.