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Foley’s Friday Mailbag: August 23, 2019

T.R. Foley, InterMat Senior Writer 8/23/2019 foley@intermatwrestle.com
The Junior World Championships wrapped up last weekend in Tallinn, Estonia, with the United States capturing a handful of medals in freestyle, women’s wrestling, and Greco-Roman. The success of the Junior team was a positive sign for the health of their program. Cohlton Schultz securing silver — along with Alston Nutter, and Peyton Omania capturing bronze — led to the best Junior performance for Team USA in Greco-Roman since Washington hosted the Junior World Championships in 1984. While the freestyle team sucks up a lot of the oxygen in the United States, it’s important to take note of this accomplishment, last year’s silver medal by Adam Coon, and the gold medals from the Pan American Games. The progress has been slow, but it’s also been pretty steady. Not every level will win gold and not every year, but it is obvious that the team is picking up steam and that success can very quickly build on itself
Congrats to everyone involved in the program. From Matt Lindland to Gary Mayabb and many more of these successes are happening because these leaders are investing their time into the program and making sacrifices to see our nation improve in the classic style. To your questions … Rest of the story at http://intermatwrestle.com/articles/22276?fbclid=IwAR1ZKffqnI2u55C9gDzATPMdn3G1gpRrfmg_SZijXXaGbj7H_KNnr0Eh0_4

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Amateur Wrestling News All-Decade Team, 2010-2019

Want to start a fight?
One sure way to get something started: put together some sort of list of “all-time great” wrestlers.
Amateur Wrestling News — the nation’s oldest wrestling publication, covering the sport since the mid-1950s — has carried on a longstanding tradition with its an All-Decade Team for 2010-2019, put together by the magazine’s writers. And what a decade it was! In the nearly 90-year history of NCAA D1 wrestling championships, only four men have earned four national titles … and two of them did it in this decade: Ohio State’s Logan Stieber … and Cornell’s Kyle Dake.
The magazine its selections for the top three wrestlers in NCAA Division I each weight class … along with “honorable mention” choices. In presenting the list, AWN’s Jim Kalin provided some of the ground rules: “Many of the decade’s best wrestlers competed at multiple weight classes during their college careers. To help sort this dilemma, one of the guidelines for our writers was to place choices at the weight they had wrestled at least two seasons …”
“The main stipulation was that the wrestler had to compete at least two seasons in this second decade (2010-2019). That eliminated greats such as Brent Metcalf/Iowa, Jake Varner/Iowa State, and Angel Escobedo/Indiana, all who were seniors in 2010.”
Kalin anticipated the discussion/arguing about their choices.
“There will be disagreement from our readers regarding this All-Decade Team. There was disagreement amongst AWN writers.”
As Kalin points out, the top three wrestlers in each weight class are ranked in order as named by AWN writers … with their placements for each year at the NCAA Division I championships.
125:
1. Spencer Lee, Iowa (1st place/1st place/TBD/TBD)
2. Jesse Delgado, Illinois (7/1/1/0)
3. Matt McDonough, Iowa (1/2/1/0)
Honorable mentions: Nico Megaludis, Penn State (3/2/2/1); Nathan Tomasello, Ohio State (1/3/3/3); Darien Cruz, Lehigh (0/7/1/5); Anthony Robles, Arizona State (0/4/7/1).
Rest of the story at
http://intermatwrestle.com/articles/22277?fbclid=IwAR1iN5X2rF8BQeAEm75ah5wgNl9g2kE74a9iC7VPdA20VlV0l26AXOhbevQ

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Winning and Losing

By Nancy Justis, Outlier Creative Solutions
“Sometimes when you win, you actually lose, and sometimes when you lose, you really win, and sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie, and sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose. Winning or losing is all one organic mechanism, from which one extracts what one needs.” -Gloria Clemente, White Men Can’t Jump
“Coach, what is the difference between winning and losing?”
I think for a moment, knowing that this must have been on his mind for a long time to be asking me so early in our conversation.
“Three inches.”
There was silence on the other end of the line. I waited. I would have waited as long as it took while Preston tried to figure out what his old coach was trying to tell him.
“Okay, coach, I give in. What does that mean?”
“What does it mean to you?”
“Well, if I know you well enough, you are getting deep on me right now, and it doesn’t have anything to do with the scoreboard.”
He knows me well.
“When was your last practice?” I ask.
“Early this morning.”
“Did you run sprints?”
“Yeah, lots.”
“Line to line?”
“Yes, I always touch the line.”
“Does everybody touch the line?”
Rest of the story at
https://www.thepredicament.com/2019/08/winning-and-losing/?mc_cid=c5b71cd582&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

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