Episodes
Iowa Hawkeye 3x NCAA Champion Spencer Lee joins the show to talk about his FloWrestling film Spencer & Austin: Wrestletown, USA. 0:01 - Wrestletown, USA 0:03 - Austin’s always been aggressive 0:09 - Wrestling w no ACLs 0:13 - Learning about yourself 0:17 - Post match interviews 0:23 - Austin showed up after his NCAA loss 0:29 - Last time he was this healthy? 0:35 - NCAA’s and being a celebrity 0:37 - Training with Gilman at Iowa 0:40 - Freestyle vs folkstyle Learn more about your ad...
Published 03/14/24
Ava recently won her NCWWC regional and will wrestle in the National Championships next week, 0:01 - Following her brothers into wrestling 0:03 - Teacher told her girls don't wrestle 0:07 - Watching women wrestle in the Olympics 0:09 - Going to Wyoming Seminary 0:13 - Preparing for college 0:16 - The Iowa vision 0:18 - Developing a culture 0:21 - National Championships and North Central 0:24 - Ava's NIL deal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 03/14/24
Published 03/14/24
NC State associate head coach Adam Hall has been announced as the head coach at Utah Valley University starting one day after the NCAA Championships. 0:04 - Why coaching? 0:07 - USAW internship grassroot RTCs 0:11 - Coaching at Columbia 0:13 - Wanting to be a head coach 0:15 - NC State producing head coaches 0:21 - NC State memories 0:24 - Read the person read the room 0:26 - Growing the fanbase, growing UVU 0:30 - Putting together a coaching staff 0:33 - Vision for the UVU 0:38 - Sweat it...
Published 03/14/24
Little Rock head coach Neil Erisman is having a break through season with his program in their fifth year of existence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 02/15/24
Sergio was a 4x high school state champion and wrestles at Michigan. Last week he upset and majored #1 ranked Real Woods of Iowa 14-2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 02/08/24
Vito Arujau joins the show on the same day his film, VITO: Out Of The Shadows debuts. We also talk about Vito's return to NCAA wrestling including his loss to Crookham and his quest for the Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 01/31/24
USA Wrestling coaches Bill Zadick, Zack Esposito and Joe Russell join the show with updates on USA Wrestling and College wrestling talk. 0:01 - Esposito is in France! 0:05 - Bill on resident program back then 0:13 - Travel issues 0:16 - Olympic year 0:21 - DT JB, KD 0:24 - VITO 0:29 - College wrestling 0:31 - Dual meets 0:43 - Covid opened some eyes  0:45 - Get the weights qualified Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 01/24/24
Doug Schwab wouldn't take no for an answer when Utah Valley said they had to cancel their dual due to weather. 0:01 - Won’t take no for an answer. Wrestled UVU in Ames. 0:12 - Straight Outta West Gym, literally 0:18 - West Gym memories 0:21 - New wrestling room 0:27 - Ejections!? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 01/19/24
2x Nebraska All-American Peyton Robb joins the show to talk about his crazy battle and against a nasty skin infection and how he was able to overcome it. 0:01 - Undefeated going into Big Ten 0:02 - Leg started to not feel right 0:05 - Heading to the hospital    0:10 - When it got serious for real 0:13 - Photos of the open wounds 0:32 - Back on the mat 0:36 - Taking a loss 0:39 - Winding down the college career Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 01/10/24
Northern Iowa Panther and #1 ranked 184 pounder Parker Keckeisen joins the show. 0:02 - Max Askren and falling in love with wrestling 0:08 - Thinking about positions 0:09 - Keegan story 0:14 - Cat and mouse game 0:17 - Chilled out scrapping vs trying to win 0:25 - Straight Outta West Gym 0:30 - Truax 0:44 - Visualization 0:48 - Wins and whoopins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 01/09/24
Michael Kemerer was a 5x All-American for the Iowa Hawkeyes. He announced his retirement from wrestling earlier this week and joins the show to talk about his career. 0:01 - Considering retirement 0:04 - Considering 7th year 0:06 - 2020 COVID Cancellation 0:08 - Overcoming adversity 0:10 - Big duals at Carver Hawkeye 0:15 - Best performance 0:18 - Iowa and Cornell and Young Guns 0:22 - First ever match 0:24 - Recruiting 0:33 - Lessons to Starocci and what’s next for Kem 0:37 - Wins and...
Published 12/20/23
Iowa freshman Gabe Arnold joins the show to talk about his journey through wrestling and his big recent win at 184 at the Iowa-Iowa State CyHawk dual. 0:01 - Introduced to wrestling, wasn’t for him 0:05 - Falling in love with wrestling, dad’s influence 0:09 - Talk from dad after youth states, you missed a rep 0:12 - Going to Wyoming Seminary 0:17 - Growing up fast at prep school 0:20 - Developing in wrestling at Wyoming Seminary 0:23 - Beau Bartlett headlocks him, need to jump levels 0:26 -...
Published 11/29/23
Olympic gold medalist and PRTC head coach Brandon Slay, along with UPenn head coach Roger Reina join the show. 0:00 - College wrestling is changing 0:02 - Changes on the senior level 0:03 - Impact of 3 point TD 0:06 - Coaching Brandon Slay 0:13 - JB at 74kg 0:16 - Kazakhstan 0:23 - PRTC Keystone Classic 0:26 - Keystone Classic to determine starters 0:29 - Vibe to the Olympic year 0:32 - Coaching Mistakes 0:37 - JB in the tunnel, “I’m scared” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
Published 11/16/23
Sammy Sasso joins the show for the first time since getting shot in August. He reacts to the Young Bucks series and talks us through his long road to recovery. 0:01 - Young Bucks 0:05 - Sammy’s reaction to the series 0:07 - Friday night at NCAAs 0:11 - Getting shot 0:25 - Progression to recovery 0:32 - Physical therapy 0:35 - Today’s progress 0:38 - Returning to Covelli 0:41 - Current role with the team 0:43 - The school side of things 0:46 - New perspective 0:49 - Don’t worry Learn more...
Published 11/01/23
J Jaggers joins the show to talk about the new series, Young Bucks: A Season With Ohio State. He also gives some updates on wrestle offs and line up news. 0:01 - Young Bucks: A Season With Ohio State 0:03 - CKLV was rough last year 0:05 - Injuries and more injuries 0:08 - How the freshman have changed in one year 0:12 - Playing mafia 0:16 - What a finish! 0:20 - Sasso Strong 0:23 - Wrestle offs & line up news 0:30 - Wins and whoopins 0:34 - Jokes Time Learn more about your ad choices....
Published 10/31/23
2023 World Champion Stevan Micic joins the show to talk about his incredible at the recent World Championships. 0:01 - Co-host and buddy Tyler Meisinger 0:03 - Rethinking 65kg 0:07 - Comparing NCAA vs International seasons 0:10 - Tyler’s story about Stevan 0:12 - Repping Serbia 0:17 - Galaxy RTC 0:24 - Musukaev 0:25 - Making weight rumors 0:29 - Training w Musukaev as kids 0:40? - Watching Stevan win 0:47 - Abakarov 0:53 - Gold medal match 1:04 - Joke Time 1:09 - Final word 1:10 - Paul...
Published 09/28/23
Rob Koll joins the show to talk about his most recent move to become head coach at University of North Carolina. 0:00 - Retired from Cornell 0:01 - Why wrestled at UNC… bc not PSU 0:05 - Rob struggled  0:06 - Coleman leaving 0:10 - Propped up by Stanford $$$ 0:12 - Getting resources 0:15 - Coaching staff 0:17 - Have vs have not 0:22 - Chasing a team title 0:24 - NIL and transfer portal 0:26 - Mistakes, recruiting the wrong kids 0:31 - Chapel Hill 0:33 - Wins and whoopins 0:36 - Joke time 0:38...
Published 09/06/23
Zack Esposito leaves Oklahoma State after 21 years for a job with USA Wrestling as the resident developmental freestyle coach. 0:01 - Getting into freestyle 0:05 - Preferring freestyle 0:09 - Becoming the USAW resident developmental coach 0:12 - How college coaching has changed since he’s been at OSU 0:18 - Recruiting kids to the OTC 0:25 - Working with John Smith the savant 0:29 - Wrestling against John Smith 0:32 - OSU memories 0:37 - Coaching future 0:41 - Wins and whoopins 0:46 - Joke...
Published 08/30/23
Iowa NCAA champion Cory Clark joins the show to talk his wrestling career and his new situation coaching at Montini Catholic and his new club CC Wrestling. 0:01 - Becoming obsessed with Halo 0:02 - First match 38 pounds 0:06 - Facing Thomas Gilman from a young age 0:12 - Became obsessed with following wrestling 0:15 - NCAA Runner-up two years in a row 0:16 - Injuries 0:23 - Seth Gross 0:28 - CC Wrestling 0:32 - Wins whooppins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 08/16/23
OG Eloy Boy and Arizona State sophomore Emilio Ysaguirre joins the show to talk about the film series on Flo and his first full year of college wrestling and college life. Check out the FloSports Original Series The Eloy Boys 0:02 - Reacting to The Eloy Boys 0:10 - Transition to college life  0:14 - Transitioning to college wrestling 0:17 - Advice to incoming freshman 0:19 - Communication with coaches 0:22 - Taking risk 0:26 - Moving to Big 12 0:29 - Best and worst of last year 0:31 - Izzy...
Published 08/10/23
Roger steps in as the new head coach at Oklahoma after building a solid program at North Dakota State University. 0:01 - Starting at NDSU 0:06 - Coaching opportunities  0:09 - Success at NDSU 0:12 - Coaching opportunities 0:16 - OU greats 0:17 - Meeting the OU team 0:19 - The message to the OU team 0:21 - Breakthrough moments 0:29 - J Rob 0:32 - Scheduling Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 07/26/23
Ryan Warner is the host of Wrestling Changed My Life podcast and audio documentaries. 0:01 - Intro into wrestling 0:06 - Starting the podcast 0:17 - How did wrestling change his life? 0:21 - Getting into documentaries 0:29 - Surprising interviews 0:43 - What’s next? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Published 07/05/23