Gadson out for remainder of season
November 27, 2011
Kyven Gadson will be out for the remainder of the season after reaggravating a shoulder injury, said ISU coach Kevin Jackson.
The 197-pound redshirt freshman wrestled cautiously in his season debut —a 6-1 loss to Oklahoma’s Keldrick Hall — on Sunday in the Cyclones’ 22-13 dual loss to the Sooners at Hilton Coliseum.
“We’re going to have to shelf him for a long, long time,” Jackson said. “I don’t think we’ll see him again this year. I talked about our season coming in and he was going to be a big part of our success.”
The ISU coaching staff will begin the process of filing for a medical redshirt for Gadson, Jackson said.
Jackson said Gadson fits the requirement of having a two-year documentation of an injury that has prevented him from wrestling and has only competed in one dual meet — well under the maximum 20 percent of the season to qualify for one.
Jackson said it was not Gadson’s left shoulder — which he had surgery on due to a separated labrum in April — that has been giving him problems, but rather it was his right shoulder that he had had surgery on in high school.
“It keeps slipping on him and popping out,” Jackson said. “I’m hoping he didn’t tear that labrum again because that’s really what the problem is [in his right shoulder as well].”
Gadson was not made available for comment.