The Bader Show

Olympic bronze medalist Kennedy Blades joins the show to talk about her impressive performance out in Paris as well as her move to compete for the Iowa Hawkeyes.

0:01 - First Olympic memory

0:03 - Adeline Gray 2023

0:06 - Transferring To Iowa

0:11 - 2024 Olympic Trials vs Adeline

0:14 - Nerves can take away all the hard work

0:15 - U23 Worlds injury got in her head

0:23 - Gold medal match

0:29 - MMA eventually?

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Northern Iowa All-American Ryan Loder just won The Ultimate Fighter reality show and joins Bader to talk about his experience with it along with some memories of Doug Schwab and West Gym.

0:01 - Doug Schwab

0:04 - West Gym

0:07 - MMA interest from COVID

0:16 - Training and evolving in MMA

0:23 - Taking a loss

0:25 - The Ultimate Fighter

0:49 - Wins and whoopins

0:52 - The final word

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Donny Pritzlaff was named head coach of Columbia University and joins the show to talk about his college rivalry with Joe Heskett, his past coaching career and what is ahead for him and the Columbia University wrestling team.

0:02 - Joe Heskett

0:05 - Andrew Howe

0:07 - Howe vs Burroughs

0:14 - Thought he would be Wisconsin head coach

0:16 - Michigan vs Rutgers

0:20 - Head coach, finally

0:24 - Learning from Cornell

0:28 - Columbia coaching staff Buxton, Rivera

0:30 - NYCRTC and Kendall Cross

0:32 - The Columbia pitch 

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Northern Iowa assistant coach and wrestling junkie Lee Roper joins the show to talk about all things from the 2024 Olympics.

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The new Oklahoma State recruiting coordinator joins the show to talk about his time at Penn State under Cael Sanderson, coaching experience and new role with David Taylor at Oklahoma State.

0:01 - Arriving in Stillwater

0:02 - Wrestling at Penn State

0:04 - Coaching gap at PSU

0:06 - Cael taking over at Penn State

0:14 - Cael agreed to wrestle at Worlds 2011

0:26 - The Penn State Dynasty

0:27 - Coaching at West Point

0:33 - UPenn associate head coach

0:37 - Relationship with David Taylor

0:43 - Putting the staff together at OK State

0:49 - Adjustment period

0:51 - PSU vs OSU coaching transition

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Joe Rau competed in his third straight Olympic Trials finals, winning in three matches over Alan Vera and earning his first trip to compete in the Olympic Games.

0:01 - getting hooked

0:05 - first world team

0:06 - 2016 olympic trials champion, no olympics

0:10 - just want to go to olympics

0:14 - Pan Ams and COVID momentum stopped

0:16 - 2021 controversy and retiring

0:19 - Lying to myself about retiring

0:24 - peace heading into 2024 trials

0:28 - Olympic Trials 2024, 2 out of 3

0:40 - Joe's career flashed before his eyes

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The 4x B1G Champion and 4x All-American from Iowa joins the show after announcing his retirement from the sport.

0:01 - Retirement

0:04 - Physical and mental toll

0:06 - Two torn ACLs

0:09 - 2020 & COVID

0:12 - Reflecting on his career

0:16 - The BULL

0:18 - Coaching and a different perspective on the sport

0:22 - Wrestling defining and not defining him

0:27 - Coaching the youth

0:32 - David Taylor

0:39 - Wins and whoopins

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J'den Cox had an illustrious career winning three NCAA titles and two World titles. He announced his retirement at the 2024 Olympic Trials and joins us to talk through his incredible journey through the sport of wrestling.

0:03 - Fall in love with wrestling first

0:05 - Retiring

0:12 - Dreaming big

0:19 - Mike Eierman

0:22 - Moments he will miss the most

0:25 - Who did he like wrestling?

0:28 - 2021 Olympic Trials fiasco

0:33 - 2023 Final X and the emotional fallout

0:45 - What’s next

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NCAA Champion Richie Figueroa joins the show to talk about his up and down season, catching fire at the end and how he gets himself into the zone.

0:01 - Wanting to be an NCAA Champion

0:04 - The Courtney Courtney 

0:06 - Selma

0:09 - Ups and downs of the year

0:12 - Almost quit

0:14 - Confidence through the roof

0:18 - Don’t take it too seriously

0:20 - NCAA Finals match

0:23 - Finding the zone

0:28 - Olympic Trials

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Adaugo Nwachukwu won the 2023-2024 USA Wrestling Women's College Wrestler of the Year award. She was the national champion at 136 and went 21-0 with six pins and 15 tech falls for William Penn University.

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