Jamel Herring Punches Ticket to 2012 Olympics
05/10/2012 - USA BOXING
(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO) –Team USA added a fifth member to their Olympic boxing team on Tuesday evening as light welterweight Jamel Herring (Coram, N.Y.) qualified his spot in London. Herring won his third bout in four days to qualify the light welterweight division for the United States squad. Heavyweight Michael Hunter (Las Vegas, Nev.) notched his second win of the tournament to advance to the semifinal round but has not officially qualified his spot yet.
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It's always forward' for USMC wrestler Donald Simmons
04/24/2012 - Rick Scoppe, The Daily News, Jacksonville, NC
Donald Simmons says there’s not much difference in the attitude he carries as a Marine or a wrestler.
Other than their uniforms and what they carry (or don’t) into battle, there’s little difference between the two disciplines in the view of the 22-year-old Halifax, Pa., native.
“We have the same attitude,” Simmons said. “It’s go head first, straight in and just battle and see what happens. Always going forward, and that’s what makes us pretty good wrestlers as Marines.”
Simmons cites his own time on the mat as an example. The corporal had never wrestled Greco-Roman until he joined the Marine Corps wrestling team less than two years ago. But he took the “always forward” attitude he learned as a Marine onto the mat.
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Hernandez has waited for years for another shot at the Olympic wrestling trials
04/23/2012 - Rick Scoppe, The Daily News, Jacksonville, NC
Moises Hernandez has waited four years for this moment.
The 26-year-old Marine sergeant qualified for the Olympic Trials in 2008, but about two months out tore cartilage in his knee, ending his Olympic hopes.
“So that was a big letdown,” said Hernandez, who wrestles at 96 kilograms in Greco-Roman and is one of six members of the USMC wrestling team to qualify for the trials that begin Saturday in Iowa City, Iowa. “It’s good to have another shot at it.”
In retrospect, Hernandez, who despite being hurt still attended the 2008 trials, isn’t all that disappointed things worked out the way they did.
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Staff Sgt. DePatto hopes it's his time at Olympic wrestling trials
04/23/2012 - Rick Scoppe, The Daily News, Jacksonville, NC
It’s his time.
Coach Dan Hicks says it’s so, and Donovan DePatto didn’t disagree.
The 28-year-old Marine staff sergeant is headed back to the Olympic Trials in wrestling for a second time with a better understanding this time what he’s likely to face on and off the mat in Iowa City, Iowa, before more than 11,000 fans.“I had a pretty good tournament (in 2008). So it’s not going to be surprising,” said DePatto, who wrestles at 60 kilograms in Greco-Roman. “It’s not going to be the whole getting in there and getting shell shocked. But I’m just trying to take it one step at a time and just stay focused on wrestling.”
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Heavyweight Fish dreaming big heading into Olympic wrestling trials
04/19/2012 - Rick Scoppe, The Daily News, Jacksonville, NC
As he prepares for the Olympic Trials later this week in Iowa City, Iowa, along with five other members of the Marine Corps wrestling team, 245-pound heavyweight Charles Fish is dreaming big.
“It feels pretty good. You kind of go to sleep every night thinking about it and dreaming,” Fish said. “I spend every moment when I’m not (training) kind of like running through my head each person I have to wrestle come trial time, what I have to do to make sure I get to London.”
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USMC's Cox excited to be headed to wrestling Olympic Trials
04/18/2012 - Rick Scoppe , The Daily News Jacksonville, NC Picture credit: John Althouse
To say John Cox let it all hang out after qualifying for the Olympic Trials would be an understatement.
But it isn’t every day you get a shot at the Olympics.
“The first thing I did was I screamed as loud as I could, put my fist up in the air, blew a kiss to my mom and gave coach a big hug,” said Cox, who qualified by finishing seventh at nationals. “I was so excited.”
You think?
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Sheffield hopes to stay focused, wrestle smart in Olympic Trials
04/18/2012 - Rick Scoppe, The Daily News, Jacksonville, NC
 Too heavy to get on the mat for his youth wrestling team as an eighth-grader, Joseph Sheffield hopped on the bus, which dropped him off at Ellison High School in Killeen, Texas.
And while his size wasnt an issue there, experience was on both the football field and the wrestling mat.
As an eighth grader wrestling high school kids is good experience, he said.
Not to mention a bit humbling?
A little bit, said Sheffield, who went on to make it to the state high school championships twice at Ellison. But it got me better. So I liked it.
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ARMED FORCES CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP
03/12/2012 - Photograph: Michael Scott
9-12 Feb 2012 
The All Marine Cross Country Team participated in the Armed Forces Cross Country Championship held in conjuction with the USATF Cross Country Nationals in St. Louis Missouri. The notable performance of the day was Capt Kaitlin Koplin who placed second overall. The women's team placed 3rd overall and the men's team placed 4th overall.
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Sgt Jamel Herring wins first National Championship
03/05/2012 - Doug Fitzgerald - The Colorado Springs Gazette
Seven boxing champs get closer to Olympics
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USMC Takes Gold
02/08/2012 - MC2 (SW/AW) Elliott Fabrizio
Marines Oust Army, Take Gold
in 2012 Armed Forces Boxing
Championship
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USMC Boxing team wins Gold
02/06/2012
Camp Pendleton proudly hosted the 2012 Armed Forces Boxing Championship 31 Jan, 1 & 3 Feb 2012 at the Paige Field house, which showcased elite boxers representing the Marine Corps, Army, Navy and Air Force. History was made Friday night, 3 February 2012. In typical Marine Corps form it was dramatic and came down to the last fight.
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USMC Captures Silver Medal at Armed Forces Wrestling
11/07/2011 - Gary Abott USA Wrestling
USMC Wrestling Team takes the Silver Medal at the 2011 Armed forces Wrestling Championships at Ft. Carson, Colorado.
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All Marine Boxing Team vies for Royal Albert Hall Cup
10/12/2011 - D. Janiec
 The All-Marine Boxing Team participated in the very first Royal Albert Hall Cup on 7 October in London's Royal Albert Hall. The last boxing event held at the Hall was over a decade ago.
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Camp Lejeune Marine wins 141-pound boxing title at Olympic trials
08/10/2011 - Rick Scoppe - The Daily News
Jamel Herring moved a step closer to his Olympic dream Friday night.
The 25-year-old Marine Corps corporal stationed at Camp Lejeune defeated multiple national champion Pedro Sosa of Bronx, N.Y., 15-10 in the 141-pound finals of the U.S. Olympic Boxing Trials in Mobile, Ala.
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Camp Lejeune Marine zeroes in on Olympic bid
08/05/2011 - Rick Scoppe-Jacksonville Daily News
 With wins over the top three seeds in the U.S. Olympic Boxing Trials, Marine Corps Cpl. Jamel Herring is one step closer to his dream.
The 25-year-old Herring, a member of the USMC boxing team at Camp Lejeune, isn’t quite the last man standing in his 141-pound weight division at the trials in Mobile, Ala. But he’s close.
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Marine Captures Silver Medal at World Beach Wrestling Championships
07/19/2011 - Gary Abott USA Wrestling
BATUMI, Georgia – Donovan Depatto (Camp Lejeune, N.C./U.S. Marine Corps) won a silver medal at 70 kg/154 lbs. at the 2011 Beach World Championships on Sunday.
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Marines pound competition at Pankration/Combat Grappling National Tournament
07/13/2011 - Mark Geletko
Marines advance to FILA World Championships
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Russell Qualifies for Pan American Games
07/11/2011 - USMC Sports Office
Cpl Damarius Russell has quailified to represent the United States at the 2011 Pan American (Pan Am) games in Gaudalajura, Mexico 14 - 30 October 2011.
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Maj Dan Hicks is named 2010 Greco-Roman Coach of the Year
06/28/2011 - Gary Abott USA Wrestling
 Dan Hicks (Camp LeJeune, N.C./U.S. Marine Corps) has been named 2010 Greco-Roman Coach of the Year by USA Wrestling. It is the first time in his career that Hicks has won this prestigious honor.
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Plymouth Half Marathon
06/02/2011 - Colonel Steven D. Peterson
On a cloudy, overcast Sunday morning, the Marine Corps Running Team defeated the British Royal Navy/Marines in the annual “Warriors of the Sea Challenge” which was held in conjunction with Plymouth Half Marathon on 29 May 2011.
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All-Marine female athletes bring much needed presence to Houston
05/31/2011 - Staff Sgt. Lisa Rosborough, Recruiting Station Houston
Three Marines from the Women's All-Marine Volleyball Team visited nine high schools within Recruiting Station Houston's area of responsibility during the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2011, bringing much needed visibility to the Marine Corps.
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