Ward Wrestling Live

Tuesdays exclusively in Facebook group (Ward Wrestling Live ~ Florida) I host a show with Florida High School Wrestling - Orlando Sentinel 's own Brant Patrick Parsons. We will air every Tuesday at 10 am through the State Tournament.

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Enjoy more great interviews by Ward Wrestling Live.

Episode 1 - Tyler Smith

Episode 2 - Zach Cook

Episode 3 - Ty Lukens

Episode 4 - Lorelei Wydra

Episode 5 - Matt Pitts

Episode 6 - Osvani Ley & Randy McCray

Episode 7 - The Wrestling Alphabet Authors Pat & Amanda Hogan

Episode 8 - Rex McDaniel

Episode 9 - RJ Weston

Episode 10 -Roger Stewart

Episode 11 - Shania Gowan

Episode 12 - Cole's Journey Into Wrestling Author Susan Scandlon

Episode 13 - Jayce Pardon

Episode 14 - JJ Johnson

Episode 15 - Juliana Diaz | Julia Ferreira | Jenecia Reyna

Episode 16 - Kara-Lynn Dover

Episode 17 - Kurt Montanye

Episode 18 - Gabriela Galvez

Episode 19 - George Silimon

Episode 20 - Jace Luchau

Episode 21 - Jasmine Alexander

Episode 22 - Drew Heethuis

Episode 23 - Anthony Cerullo

Episode 24 - Chad adams

Episode 25 - Coach Tomke

Episode 26 - Adam Fahs

Episode 27 - Alexandra Martinez

We discuss:

- His setbacks from an unknown birth defect.

- Having a heart attack at such a young age, and why?

- Having to go from GA to Texas to find a cardiologist willing to save his life through experimental surgery.

- The start of his non-profit G.A.B.E (Giving Athletes Basic Echos) and how important it is to add this to athletes physical evals.

- 1st match back, competing at GFC, and SO MUCH MORE.

Kennedy Blades she has pretty much won everything in the U.S. she got a concussion at World’s and wasn’t able to continue. As a youth she’s the only girl ever to win Illinois kids club states against boys. She also won tulsa kickoff and tulsa National’s in the boy’s division. She’s won 2 pan am championships 2 klippan championships in Sweden a yoshida open championship in Japan a Austrian open championship in Austria a championship in Estonia. 3 time Fargo champ 2 time super 32 champ and is ranked #1 in the country at her weight.  

Korina Blades she’s a 1X Fargo champ a 1X pan am champ she’s a 15u world champion. Has multiple national championships as a youth. They both wrestle as boarding students at Wyoming Seminary in P.A. and wrestle for Izzystyle wrestling when they’re home in Illinois.

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14 years multisport coach and teacher in Osceola county. Football and wrestling Dual sport athlete in high school at Springstead High School c/o 95 x football and wrestling. First three years at Liberty High School Football asst. Wrestling asst.(2years) Head Coach year three. Moved to Celebration to asst. after wife got pregnant. Three years at Celebration as an assistant to HOF Vic Lorenzano. Took Head Coaching position at St. Cloud. 5 years head coach Three years asst- one with HOF Rick Tribit

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Watch him wrestle at the Michigan Grappler in October

Wrestled at Oregon State 1999-2003. Coched at the HS level both boys and girls from 2004-2017 in both OR and WA. 2017 took the Women’s Wrestling Coach position at Southern Oregon University. 2019 took the Head Women’s Wrestling Coach Position at Indiana Tech. Coched 7 women’s college National placers. Finished 7th at National Duals in 2018-19 season. Many state placers and all americans when coaching at the HS level.

Watch him compete at the Michigan Grappler in October

Wisconsin's own Kylie Welker also has an impressive collection of trophies. She was a 2019 Wisconsin Wrestling Federation champion and recently went undefeated in five matches at the Midwest Ironman Duals. And will be competing on FLOWrestlings WNO in Oct.

Skylar Hattendorf, a native of New Hampshire, has many other accolades to her name. She was a USAW preseason national champion in 2018 and more recently finished as a runner-up at 2019's Super 32. She will be Competing at FloWrestling WNO In October.

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2x Fla State Champ from Dr. Phillips 

3x Fla State Placer 

Fargo All American 

2x Metro Champ 

2x Regional Champ

3x Fla State Champion from the Osceola Kowboys 

6x HS All American 

2x College All American

2x District Champ, State Qualifier, Senior at South Dade

GA state champion 

2x Hs AA 

Univeristy AA in freestlye and greco 

Oly training center off complex athlete 

Assistant coach life womens wrestling

Career Highlights: 

• Led the Ohio State wrestling program to unprecedented heights, capturing the 2015 NCAA National Championship (110.0 points) • Added 23.5 points to that team total (133.5) to place second at the 2018 NCAA Championships • NCAA team runner-ups in 2008, 2009, 2017, 2018 and 2019 • Seven top-3 NCAA Championships team finishes and five consecutive (2015-19) • Top-8 team finishes in 11 of the last 12 NCAAs • Three-time Intermat National Coach of the Year (2008, 2009, 2015) • Two-time NCAA Head Coach of the Year (2009, 2015) • Three-time Big Ten Coach of the Year (2015, 2017, 2018) after capturing three B1G titles in four-year stretch (2015, 2017, 2018) • Coached six different Buckeyes to 12 individual national titles, including four-time champion Logan Stieber and Olympic gold medalist Kyle Snyder (three-time NCAA champ) • Mentored 15 Buckeyes to a total of 23 NCAA Finals appearances • A Buckeye has been crowned Big Ten champion 22 times during the Ryan Era, a number accumulated by 12 different athletes • Corralled 53 All-American honors in 14 seasons leading the Buckeye program • Tutored six Ohio State Male Athlete of the Year winners, including five years straight (2014-18) • Recruited a pair of Big Ten Freshman of the Year honorees • Thirty-eight NWCA Scholar/Academic All-America recognitions by 18 different recipients • Ohio State led the country with seven NWCA Scholar/Academic All-Americans in back-to-back seasons (2018 and 2019) • Since arriving in Columbus, there have been 81 and 22 Academic All-Big Ten and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar selections, respectively  (as of 2017-18) • Head coach at Hofstra University from 1995-2006 • Earned seven conference coach of the year awards as the Pride head coach • Two-time New York State Coach of the Year • Led Hofstra to six consecutive conference crowns and a 47-match league unbeaten streak (46-0-1) in dual action during the 2001-06 seasons • Served as an assistant coach at Indiana University (1992-94) • Earned bachelor’s degree in education from Iowa in 1993 • He and his wife, Lynette, have four children; Jordan, Jake, Teague and Mackenzie

Fla State Runner-Up 

Reigning GFC Champ 

Ohio Middle Schools State Champ 

#90 PFP Sophomore

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15 years old ive been wrestling since i was in 7th grade. I started wrestling because my older brother used to wrestle. He introduced me to wrestling. I started wrestling for the middle school i went. I wanted to get better and joined a wrestling club. Kowboy attack for Osceola High School with Coach Bird. Im now a sophmore in high school. I placed 4th for girls states.

HS Coach & Mentor for 16 years 

Youth residential supervisor & Family Teacher

The Blue Devils have finished higher at the NCAA Championships each of the past six seasons than in all of the previous years prior to coming under Lanham’s leadership. It all culminated with consecutive top-25 finishes in 2018 and 2019, taking 22nd and 25th, respectively, and crowning two more All-Americans, the fifth and sixth in seven seasons.

2x state qualifier 

2020 120 state runner up. 

2x district champ 

1x region champ 

1x region runner up

Helped create Penn High School’s girls wrestling team. Later coached at Penn and is now currently the head women’s wrestling coach at Trine University.

We spoke about: 

👉🏼Wrestling in Iowa 

👉🏼Choosing Nebraska 

👉🏼Transition from HS to College 

👉🏼Life as a Cornhusker 

AND SO MUCH MORE‼️

US Senior Greco All American 

NY USAW State Coach 

Suples Pro Trainer 

Owner Founder Curby Training Center Troy NY

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2x NCWA All-American @UCF

2010 NCWA National Champions 

Head Coach at Matanzas High School- Second Year 

4 Year Assistant at Matanzas 

4 Year Assistant at Flagler Palm Coast

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Coach Thomas:  Wrestling stats  285 Polk County Champ  District champ 2013 Regional runner up  State 3rd place  4th place finish at Florida All Class  Wrestling Championships  1st Team All County  Coach Jones: Auburndale Alum Wrestled for USMC

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PSU Alumni. Ncaa all american. 2x big ten finalist. 28 carrer pins which is in the top 20 in Penn State history. 2x new york state champ. Most recent is a competitor on s.u.g.

2005 Fl State Champ 

4-1 MMA Pro

Founder of Riccio Productions LLC, Wrestled at Rhode Island College for 4 yrs, work as a graphic artist, photographer, and video producer covering a lot of Wrestling

Purdue All American, 3 time NQ, FL state Champ, Head Coach of St Thomas U

Michigan HS state champ, wrestled at Michigan State 2003-2007, 3 year starter, team captain 07. Head coach for 10 years in Michigan HS wrestling, coached D1 Team State title in 2015. Started MichiganGrappler.com in 2007 and started the GFC in 2010. Have also created GeorgiaGrappler.com, NewYorkWrestlingNews, SouthCarolinaGrappler and Grappler Gold Network

Wrestled since i was 4. Dad was a NJ state champion in 1973. I won 2 NJ State Titles in 2000 and 2001. Went to NC State out of HS then transferred and finished my career at Rider University. I run a club in NJ called Wrecking Crew. I recently developed an app for athletes to send match video to their coach to have them review, analyze and breakdown the wrestlers performance.

Indiana University 3x NCAA qualifier, 

Rd of 12 as a SR 

Big 10 Medal of Honor recipient 

3x Academic All American 

Graduate Assistant at SUNY Cortland - Top 10 Team Finish - 2 NCAA Champs (Joe Giametta, Bobby Dierna) 

Head Assistant- App State - 4 SoCon team championships - All American in 2018 (Denzel Dejornett) 

Head Wrestling Coach- The Citadel

National Wrestling Journalist of the year in 2019

Competed in wrestling for 15 years. Wrestled on an all boys team until high school where I earned 4 state titles and was undefeated in the state of Texas. I attended Oklahoma City University on scholarship for their women’s team. I was a three time all-american in WCWA, two time World Team Trials Qualifier, and Olympic Trials Qualifier, as well as two time University World Team Trials runner up.

Career Highlights: 

•    Fifth in 2019 World Championships •    2017 World Team member •    2019 Final X champion •    2017 U.S. World Team Trials champion •    Second in 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials •    2019 World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion •    Third in 2014 Junior World Championships •    Two-time University Nationals champion (2015, 2016) •    2019 Canada Cup champion •    Second in 2016 and 2019 U.S. Open •    Second in 2017 Grand Prix of Spain •    Two-time WCWA national champion for Lindenwood (2015, 2016)