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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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Summary

Iowa State Athletics makes four massive announcements regarding wrestling. Women's wrestling is added and Alli St. John is the head coach, Kevin Dresser steps into a new role and Brent Metcalf is promoted to head coach of the men's program. Plus, Jamie Pollard explains the logistics of adding a new program, their separate facility and he shares more of what led to the gymnastics program getting cut. Presented by Wyffles Hybrids in the Northwest Bank Studios. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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