{"id":295289,"date":"2025-08-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=295289"},"modified":"2025-08-26T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:03:09","slug":"ndsu-wrestlings-jones-heads-to-world-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=295289","title":{"rendered":"NDSU Wrestling\u2019s Jones Heads to World Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ndsu-wrestle82125.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ndsu-wrestle82125.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-295290\" width=\"385\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ndsu-wrestle82125.jpg 500w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ndsu-wrestle82125-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ndsu-wrestle82125-311x175.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>FARGO &#8211; North Dakota State wrestling&#8217;s\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/gobison.com\/sports\/wrestling\/roster\/shilo-jones\/24091\">Shilo Jones<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0is set to represent Team USA at the 2025 U20 World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria August 23-24. Jones will compete in the 130kg division in the Greco-Roman discipline.<br>\u00a0<br>The Greco-Roman 130 kg qualification rounds are set to begin August 23 at 2 a.m. CT and will run through the semifinals. Repechage rounds and medal matches will be held on August 24, set to begin at 8:15 a.m. CT.<br>\u00a0<br>&#8220;We are very proud for Shilo, as he has put together a fantastic summer of training and competing in preparation for this event,&#8221; said NDSU wrestling head coach\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/gobison.com\/sports\/wrestling\/roster\/coaches\/obenson-blanc\/2399\">Obenson Blanc<\/a><\/dfn>. &#8220;He is the best U20 heavyweight at this style in the United States, but he isn&#8217;t satisfied. This is the mentally that we preach to our guys, so it is great to see it come to fruition for Shilo.&#8221;<br>\u00a0<br>Jones qualified for the World Championships and earned the opportunity to represent Team USA after winning the U20 Greco-Roman World Team Trials at the Spire Academy in late May, defeating Trayvn Boger in a best-of-three championship series. Jones qualified for the World Team Trials after claiming the 2025 CLAW U.S. Open Championships held in Las Vegas in late April.<br>\u00a0<br>&#8220;We are thankful to donors and supporters who have made this opportunity possible for Shilo and the rest of our student-athletes who have world and Olympic aspirations while perusing a great education at NDSU,&#8221; added Blanc.<br>\u00a0<br>After claiming the World Team Trials and qualifying for the World Championships, Jones also claimed the U20 Pan-American Championship in preparation for the trip to Bulgaria. Jones won the Pan-American Championship with three technical superiority decisions and a fall, allowing just one point from the opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO &#8211; North Dakota State wrestling&#8217;s\u00a0Shilo Jones\u00a0is set to represent Team USA at the 2025 U20 World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria August 23-24. Jones will compete in the 130kg division in the Greco-Roman discipline.\u00a0The Greco-Roman 130 kg qualification rounds are set to begin August 23 at 2 a.m. CT and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":295290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295291,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295289\/revisions\/295291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/295290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}