Volume 45, No. 5 Contents May/June 2017
USA Wrestling is the National Governing Body for amateur wrestling in the United States and a United States Olympic Committee member organization.
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President - Bruce Baumgartner First Vice President - Greg Strobel Second Vice President - Mark Reiland Treasurer - Duane Morgan Secretary - Van Stokes
Past President - James Ravannack 'LUHFWRUV
Dave Black Rob Cate
Jim Considine Mike Duroe Nate Engel Dave Foxen William Grant Jordan Holm Elliott Hopkins Chris Kallai
Craig LaMont Jeff Levitetz
Jessica Medina Teague Moore Tony Ramos
Bryce Saddoris Iris Smith
John Smith
Mark Burchard Jake Clark
Zac Dominguez Charles Elvin Patricia Fox Dan Gable
Anthony Holman Werner Holzer Mike Juby Mark Krug
Marcie Lane-Van Dusen Kerry McCoy Frank Molinaro Mike Moyer
Louis Rosbottom Nancy Schultz Pat Smith Rick Tucci
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Executive Director
USA WRESTLER/WIN MAGAZINE EDITION MAY 2017, VOL. 45 NO. 5 Rich Bender
Communications Director Gary Abbott Communications Manager Richard Immel Communications Coord. Taylor Miller WIN Publisher
WIN Editor/Designer Copy Editor Copy Editor Printing
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USA WRESTLING’S MISSION USA Wrestling, guided by the Olympic spirit, provides quality opportunities for its members to achieve their full human and athletic potential.
Features
8 THE MAGIC IS BACK David Taylor deal with past pains.
World Cup success helped 11 HODGE TROPHY Penn State’s Zain Retherford earned “wrestling’s Heisman.”
12 ROADTRIP LIKE NO OTHER talk about going from Rio to NCAAs.
J’den Cox and Kyle Snyder
16 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS 18 LOOKING AHEAD TO 2018
What Top-10 moments made Nationals in St. Louis so historic?
Penn State and Ohio State
return most of 2017 NCAA points . 24 BEING BRUCE
Legendary gold medalist
%DXPJDUWQHU UHÁ HFWV RQ KLV SDVW 28 ALARA IS ALL IN
Cadet World bronze medalist
looks ahead for more improvement. 30 LACED & LOADED
Vito Arujau, son of Russian
World champ, has bright U.S. future. 32 LEFEVER LIT IT UP
Wabash star became second Div. III wrestler to claim four titles. Departments
26 USAW Technique Corner 27 Goodpaster Training 34 Coaches Corner 40 Fun & Games 41 Photo Contest/Directory
USA Wrestling Corporate Partners R 6
Columns/Q&As Rich Bender
15 Dan Gable 19 Kyle Dake 20 Jordan Burroughs 42 Bryan Van Kley
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