Takedown Report

An Appreciation of Logan Stieber’s Career

By Earl Smith
It was December of 2006 and I was a borderline obsessed wrestling fan coaching at the high school level. The previous year after my team wrestled in Southeastern Pennsylvania, I had taken a side trip to the second day of the Beast of the East and saw many of the top high school wrestlers of the time. One that caught my eye was the kid my friend and I called, “The Baby Faced Assassin” David Taylor. Just a freshman, at the time, Taylor looked 12 years old but wrestled like he was 22 and beat up the field while winning a Beast title. In 2005/2006 we were in a different place technologically speaking. Matches of the top middle school/high school wrestlers weren’t available at the drop of a hat, so you either needed to get your hands on videos, after the fact, or do the legwork yourself. As the 2006-07 high school season was approaching, rumors on the national message boards, as well as Ohio boards, were that there was an up-and-coming freshman named Logan Stieber that may actually be able to challenge Taylor. Both Stieber and Taylor had won Cadet Freestyle National Titles in the summer of 2006 at back-to-back weights for Team Ohio in Fargo. Even though Logan was slated to attend a small school named Monroeville, he would be attending the Walsh Ironman and wrestling 103, just like Taylor. After checking my schedule and seeing that the team I was assisting would not be competing that weekend, it was an easy decision for me to make the six-hour trek from Northern Virginia to Akron, Ohio, if for nothing else, to see these two 103 lb titans clash. Rest of the story at https://news.theopenmat.com/international-wrestling/an-appreciation-of-logan-stiebers-career/72747?utm_content=buffer9a02d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&mc_cid=c76314a5c3&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

April 19, 2019 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized