Wrestling is the world's oldest sport. In Arkansas, it's the newest.
Follow the University of Arkansas at Little Rock as it starts up a brand new sport in a place that hasn't seen major college wrestling in half a century. Rocked up follows the fledgling wrestling program as it begins from scratch with a start date of November 2019.
Produced by the Mat Talk Podcast Network.
Nov 4, 2019
One year since the hiring of Neil Erisman, things have been
changing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Construction was starting on the new on-campus practice facility,
recruits have joined Conner Ward, creating the roster for the first
team that would take to the mats in November of 2019 and conference
affiliation and scheduling was starting to become more prominent in
coach Erisman’s day.
That wrestling facility was set to finish in early September, just
days before the official start of practice. Erisman’s wrestling
family had grown, but his immediate family was growing too, as a
new Erisman child was coming in the late summer.
A year after Erisman was hired, the wrestling program started
looking like it was a real wrestling program. With one year on the
job done, but his first official year leading the school into
uncharted waters, now the actual competitive work had to get done.
Welcome to Rocked Up, the story of the foundation and formation of
the first Division I college wrestling program in Arkansas,
starting in November of 2019 at the University of Arkansas at
Little Rock. This is the ninth edition of this story. We started
the journey developing the foundation of wrestling in the state of
Arkansas and now we’ve moved on to the formation of the team,
because to tell the full story of this program, you have to start
at the very beginning.
Rocked Up is a presentation of the Mat Talk Podcast Network and can
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