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Corey’s Stories: The walk-on who joined a college team with no wrestling experience

Mark Tiernan walked-on the wrestling team 25 years ago at Mount Saint Joseph University.  We were students on summer break. Tiernan played football. We’d joked with each other for months about him wrestling the upcoming season if I played football.  I was six years removed from high school JV football. Tiernan had never wrestled. Of course it was a joke.

Tiernan threw down the gauntlet early that summer.  “Seriously,” he said, “if you come out for football, I’ll wrestle.”  Tiernan was a psychology major. Perhaps he was conducting an experiment. Maybe attempting observational hours on insanity.  “If you’re promising you’ll wrestle,” I replied, “I’ll do it.” I don’t remember if we sealed the pact with a handshake. I don’t recall much except that we were at Maloney’s Pub and I never once made a good decision at Maloney’s. 

I’d lost hearing in my right ear the summer after my sophomore year in high school after colliding with a teammate in a baseball game. There was surgery and doctor’s orders I sit out football the upcoming year. I never went back — until I fulfilled my end of the deal that fall.  I played football. Mostly, I watched football. After finishing the season with some special teams penalties — and roughly nine total minutes of actual playing time — my Division III college football career was in the books. It was Tiernan’s turn to pay up. And he did.  Tiernan is married now with three kids, living in Cary, N.C. I called him recently to catch up. Rest of the story at
https://www.trackwrestling.com/PortalPost.jsp?postId=1673211132&mc_cid=a8740c076f&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

July 29, 2019 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Registration now open for USA Wrestling Preseason Nationals, set for Oct. 25-27 in Des Moines

Registration for the 2019 USA Wrestling Preseason Nationals, one of the biggest preseason wrestling tournaments in the nation, is now open.  The first 50 wrestlers that register will receive a free event t-shirt that you will pick up at the head table during the tournament. The event is set for the last weekend in October, with high school competing on October 25th and 26th and wrestlers entering eighth grade and below as well as all open divisions competing on October 27th. It will be held at the Iowa Events Center (Hyvee Hall) in Des Moines, Iowa.

The field is only open to the first 1,500 high school boys, 1,500 eighth grade and below, 400 girls and 200 open division wrestlers. THIS WILL BE THE LARGEST USA WRESTLING PRESEASON NATIONALS EVER. LAST YEAR WE SOLD THIS EVENT OUT. MAKE SURE YOU DON’T MISS OUT AND REGISTERED ASAP. We DO NOT have a change weight fee at anytime so you can change your weight all the way up to the weigh-ins without a fee.

NEW FOR 2019 – The High School Division is now two days and will start wrestling on Friday, October 25th at 3:00pm. This includes High Boys and High School Girls. Rest of the story at
https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2019/July/25/Preseason-Nationals-registration-now-open?mc_cid=10f2fb985a&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

July 29, 2019 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment