Mat Awareness

Dave Malecek was a 2X State Champ at Osage High School, an All American at UNI, and is currently the head wrestling coach at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. During the recording of this episode, I heard some of the greatest wrestling stories of all time including so many legends like Dave Schultz, Mark Schwab, John Oostendorp, and so many more. If you're a wrestling fan, you're gonna LOVE this one.

Ross Needham was a 2X All American and 4X Academic All American for the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He now serves as the Head Assistant coach at UW-La Crosse. He's quite a personable guy, and has a just as interesting wrestling career as you'll find out in the show. We go pretty in depth into his career, but one of my favorite parts of this episode is hearing his philosophy on parenting wrestlers, which is phenomenal. He's quite a character, check it out!

You might not recognize the name Cole Schrupp, but you've probably seen some of his work before. He's made countless awesome videos for the Gophers as well as many other teams, and one of his videos on youtube even hit over one million views. They're good, real good, and I'm always inspired by people that were the first one's to evolve their craft - and that's exactly what he did with wrestling videography. Great humble guy and I really enjoyed this conversation. Check out one of his most popular videos below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzf5aws9Lhg&t=280s

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Bebeto Yewah started wrestling VERY late in the game, which is one of the many reasons his accomplishments are so impressive. As the title says, Bebeto was a 2X National Champ, and a 3X National Finalist for UW-La Crosse. He also ended up making the world team for his home country Cameroon where he dropped a close match to a 2X Bronze World Medalist which unfortunately ended his tournament. Bebeto talks about his high school career in Michigan, tells the story of how he ended up at UW-La Crosse, how he trained with Franklin Gomez over the summer after his freshman year, and tons more. Make sure to listen to the full episode to hear a CRAZY story about when he went to Egypt to wrestle towards the end of the show!

Music:

Speed Energy by WinnieTheMoog  

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I thought it would be fun to switch around the format of the podcast, and do a recap episode with John Broughton who made his SECOND appearance on the show! We discussed what we liked and disliked about FloWrestling's event, as well as some of our dream matchups that we would love to see happen at future events. I think David Taylor and Sadulaev are near the top of the list! Man we can't wait for NCAA and Olympic level wrestling to begin again. Enjoy the show!

Speed Energy by WinnieTheMoog

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Albie McKinney is currently a professional MMA fighter with a record of 14-6, and was a national runner up for UW-La Crosse. Putting those accolades aside, Albie is an amazing human being that has overcome a number of obstacles in life. I'm not going to get into the details because it would be a disservice to have anyone but him tell his story, so tune in and be prepared to hear about a man that came out on top of some very dark times.

Speed Energy by WinnieTheMoog

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