DAILY CLONE: Women's wrestling added, Dresser new role, Metcalf promoted, Pollard speaks (4/16/26)
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We've got so much to get into on today's Daily Clone here on a loaded Thursday. |
| 0:30.1 | It's all brought to you by Wiffles hybrids. |
| 0:32.9 | Farmers are getting ready to get into the fields and planting their independence. |
| 0:37.2 | You should do the same and |
| 0:38.2 | choose wiffles. A massive day for Iowa State Athletics. Four big announcements. We'll get to all of that. |
| 0:45.0 | I'll also share what Jamie Pollard had to say about gymnastics. But it all starts with the news of |
| 0:50.8 | women's wrestling becoming the 18th sport at Iowa State, women's wrestling |
| 0:54.7 | will get their own facility at Bayer Hall, which is the former building for the gymnastics |
| 1:00.8 | program. With the addition of women's wrestling, Kevin Dresser is stepping into a new role. After |
| 1:07.3 | nine years of leading Iowa State on the wrestling mats, he will be the director of |
| 1:12.4 | men's and women's wrestling dresser got Iowa State wrestling back on the map after it had fallen |
| 1:18.5 | off of a cliff. And with that, Brent Metcalf is elevated to the new head coach of Iowa State |
| 1:24.7 | men's wrestling, an opportunity that he's waited for his whole life. |
| 1:28.9 | I'll share more about that. |
| 1:30.4 | And Allie St. John's becomes the first ever head coach of Iowa State Women's Wrestling, |
| 1:35.4 | the two-time silver medalist on the world stage, and wife of Derek St. John, |
| 1:41.8 | is someone who's very familiar not only with Iowa State Athletics and |
| 1:44.8 | Iowa State Wrestling, but how to get to the top in women's wrestling. And we'll start with her. |
| 1:50.9 | What an opportunity to take over this program that has a lot of advantages, being in a state that was |
| 1:57.4 | early on girls wrestling in the state of Iowa. This isn't an opportunity that she saw |
| 2:03.3 | coming her whole life. It's not something she dreamt of, but now that it's here, St. John |
| 2:09.3 | is ready to take over the cyclones. It is honestly unreal. I can't even imagine that that is even |
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