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How USA Wrestling will host Senior National Championships in the COVID-era

DES MOINES – The sport of wrestling is eyeing a big opportunity in Coralville, Iowa, this weekend.

USA Wrestling’s Senior National Championships will be contested at Coralville’s Xtream Arena this weekend. The three-day event will feature hundreds of the nation’s best wrestlers in the Olympic disciplines: men’s and women’s freestyle and Greco-Roman.

They will do this even while the novel coronavirus pandemic persists.

“There’s been a lot of communication, a lot of planning,” Josh Schamberger, President of the Iowa City/Coralville Area Convention & Visitors Bureau, told the Register this week. “If we didn’t feel like we could do it safely, we wouldn’t be involved.