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Daniel Herrera, who won back-to-back state wrestling titles, will finish high school in Iowa

Herrera intends to play football and wrestle near the Ames, Iowa campus of Iowa State University, where he has committed to be a dual-sport athlete.
State wrestling champion Daniel Herrera committed to wrestle and play football at Iowa State University last October. Now, before he has even begun his senior year of high school, Herrera is packing his things and heading to Iowa.
Herrera, who won back-to-back California state wrestling titles in the heavyweight division, will not return to Palm Desert High School for his senior year.
Instead, he is moving to Iowa, where he’ll live in an apartment near the Iowa State campus in Ames. Herrera said that he intends to play football and wrestle for one more year in high school before enrolling at ISU.
“I’m still planning on doing both sports out there,” said Herrera, who was The Desert Sun’s male athlete of the year for the 2021-22 school year. Herrera will make the move to the Midwest in early August.

Herrera was the kind of physical force that only comes through the Coachella Valley every few decades. Though there have been other elite athletes from the desert over the years, there has never been someone as physically dominant on both the football field and the wrestling mat.
The 6-foot-3, 265-pound Herrera never lost a wrestling match during his three years wrestling in high school and was a three-time all-league first team performer playing on the defensive line for Palm Desert, a school that won three league titles in Herrera’s three seasons. Herrera was the Desert Empire League’s defensive player of the year in 2022. … rest of story at Desertsun.com/story/sports/high-school/wrestling

June 15, 2023 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized