Takedown Report

Pitt tandem choose wrestling over basketball, become champions

When he was 14 at McCluer High School in Florissant, Mo., Pitt wrestler Demetrius Thomas thought he wanted to play basketball. Lucky for him, two McCluer coaches conspired to make sure that didn’t happen. Years earlier, Micky Phillippi — just like any 6-year-old would do — dutifully followed his father to the Derry basketball courts, even though the future Pitt wrestling champion had other ideas. “I saw (wrestling), and I said I want to do that,” Phillippi said. “My dad said, ‘I don’t know. You should play basketball.’

“We’d go to the park and play basketball, and I said, ‘I don’t want to do this. I want to wrestle.’ ” And so he did. “I went and tried it, and I loved it,” Phillippi said. “The whole family fell in love with it.” Rest of the story at https://triblive.com/sports/pitt-tandem-choose-wrestling-over-basketball-become-champions/?mc_cid=b1cccea619&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

March 18, 2019 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized