Did you wrestle in High School or College?

[sasquatch]

I've been reding Al Franken's "Lies and the Lieing Liers who tell them a fair in balanced look at the right". He said that he used to wrestle in High School(which explains why he doesn't have a neck). I also read that Paul Wellstone's son is an assistant coach of a High School wrstling team which means Paul probably wrestled in High School. I heard a rumor that Kucinch wrestled in High School as well. I was a 4 year Varsity wrestler for Carlisle(Ohio)High School at 215lb and 275lb weight class. So did you wrestle in High School if you did what wieght class and for what High School and don't forget to list the state it's in?

[JohnKleeb]

1. no lol thats one thing I dont share with my progressive heroes

Paul Wellstone definely wrestled on DK I am not sure, he played baseball and football before being diagonsed with a heart condition like me and thats why I dont play football. I was gonna play as a freshman but I had to be checked and wallah I have a heart condition. BTW my school, Herndon High has a good problem. I would had loved to box lol of all things. I dont think DK wrestled but he was an athlete. He was a catcher in baseball lol which means likely he isnt a left hander. BTW I weight anywhere from 170-190. Ive lost weight through the dumbest diet but :) it works.

[sasquatch]

2. Try kicking for the Football team

There was a soccer player where I live that had to quit soccer because of a heart condition. He decided to kick for the football team so he could feel relieved from being away from soccer.

[JohnKleeb]

8. That wouldnt be good for me

I cant kick for shit.

[izzie]

3. Yes both high school and college but you need not know my dating problems

n/t

[sasquatch]

4. It's ok you're amongst friends

:grouphug:

[TlalocW]

5. I did

I had started lifting weights my sophomore year and was getting bigger, and my math teacher (who I respected a lot) was the head wrestling coach, and he asked me to try out. Before I had always been the non-athletic nerd - computers, math, physics, etc. was my bag, baby, but I also liked doing surprising things to entertain myself (if no one else) so I went out my junior year and was junior varsity; my senior year I was varsity. I had a winning record each year, and I was known as "Gentleman James" because it seems that the majority of kids who go out on the mat feel they need to win by really hurting the other person unnecessarily. Wrestling isn't going to be comfortable, but there are kids out there who have no problem with injuring someone on purpose. I was the master of the "far-side cradle" - I could put it on just about anyone, and no one could break it.

I wrestled at 160 for Clearwater High School - a small farming community to the south of Wichita, KS.

TlalocW

[sasquatch]

7. Do you think 160 is the toughest division?

Like they said it was in "Visionquest". I think 171 is the toughest but I could be wrong.

[TlalocW]

11. I never really thought about it...

I was never THAT into it. Coach needed me at 160 so I was at 160. I did wrestle guys both heavier and lighter than I was and beat them both including a 171 pounder.

Oh, this is funny. My first year on junior varsity, we went to a JV match for both Kansans and Oklahomans. There weren't enough JV'ers present to have matches for every weight class. My coach told me that I was going to wrestle "that guy" (pointing at someone) and told me that he looked big, but he was just one weight class above you - 171. He looks big, but hey, I'm inexperienced what do I know, and why would my coach - a good Christian man - lie to me? So I go to wrestle him, and I'm out-manuevering him on the mat and scoring points and even getting him on his back, but I can't pin him because he's so... round... that he can roll from shoulder to shoulder without putting both down no matter how hard I press on him.

Second round comes, and he wins the toss and decides he wants to be on top. Whistle is blown, and my coach is yelling at me to "explode up out of it!" which was our preferred way - jumping to our feet and breaking the hold - to get out of someone on top. I try several times but can't, and it's beginning to dawn on me that this guy weighs a bit more than what my coach told me. The match lasted all 3 rounds, and I won on points. When I stepped off the mat, my coach said, "Congratulations, you just beat a heavy-weight around 235." "Yeah... Thanks, asshole!" I replied, and we both laughed.

TlalocW

[Blue-Jay]

6. I wrestled.

At 170 lbs in highschool. I wasn't the greatest in the area, but my win/loss percentage was close to 80%. I loved it.

Fuzzy memory/anecdote time: I was wrestling a guy from Stebbins HS (Dayton) at a meet. He went for a double-leg pickup, and I shoved his head between my legs, clamped down, and just fell backwards. His head hit the mat hard, knocking him out. He was promptly taken to the hospital on a backboard, and sporting a neckbrace. I was crestfallen, thinking that I had broken his neck or worse. During the next match, I decided that I couldn't take it anymore, so I left and drove to the hospital where the EMTs had taken him. There, I met his parents, and talked to them while he was being examined. He ended up having only a slight concussion and no serious damage, thankfully. After getting over his surprise at my being at the hospital, we sat around and got to know each other. I'm still close friends with he and his family, 18 years later. Also, they're Democrats (aside from his dumbass older brother).

[sasquatch]

9. What school did you wrestle for?

It sounds like you're in my area of Ohio.

[Blue-Jay]

10. Springfield South

Or in the local vernacular, "Sowf".

[Boudicea]

12. Yeah -- in the backseat!

[sasquatch]

13. LOL...No sex jokes please

[bobthedrummer]

14. I was junior varsity in H.S./South Division Milwaukee 148-55 lbs. 1965

14 wins; 1 loss; 1 double disqualifaction that touched off a mini-riot

[sasquatch]

16. Cool

We had a fight at SWBL chamionship tournament. A kid got hurt and had to forfiet the match while he was ahead by 6 poinnts and his mom got mad. His mom went said something to our guy that wrestled him and his mom got mad and went after her. We had to break up a near fight right there on the spot. People get upset when that happens but, I think it's funny.

[Fight_n_back]

15. Well

I had some tough dates if thatswhat you mean.

[TrogL]

17. yes, wrong weight class

I was the smallest kid the class and they didn't have anybody my size to wrestle with, so the fscking coach paired me up with one of my gay-bashing abusers and he started all this TV "Wresting" stuff, but later on I had match with I guy I had a huge crush on and spent 5 minutes with my head pretty much in his crotch.

Yum!

[sasquatch]

21. LOL

That shouldn't be aloud in school;)

[KG]

18. 1 wrestling practice was all it took for me to know .

that it wasn't for me. waaaaay too much pain involved!!!

[KG]

19. 1 wrestling practice was all it took for me to know .

that it wasn't for me. waaaaay too much pain involved!!!

[never cry wolf]

20. I did

Didn't go out til soph year, JV as a Junior, Varsity as a Senior. I walked on at NIU for about 3 weeks until I decided there was too much fun to be had at college. I was 119 at Prospect High in Illinois.

There was a similar thread here in late August, here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=145435

[sasquatch]

22. I had a friend that use to wrestle 140 at Miami of Ohio

but then they shut down the progam on him:gr:

[VermontDem2004]

23. hell no

can't stand the sport.

[sasquatch]

26. Not WWF type wrestling

Olympic(or Folkstyle to be exact)wrestling. Why do you hate the sport it's probably the best team sport in High School

[VOX]

24. No, too tall and skinny. Ran track and cross country...

And still have the creaky knees to remind me.

:toast:

[sasquatch]

25. The High School sports wounds are as proud as the trophy's themselves

Do you still run?