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HEAD COACH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS WRESTLING TEAM

ACCOLADES

  • World Silver Medalist

  • 3x World Freestyle Medalist

  • 2x NCAA Champion at Oklahoma University

  • 4x NCAA All American at Oklahoma University

  • 8x US World Team Member

  • 5x Junior National Champion

  • 2014 Las Vegas Open Greco competitor

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FUN FACTS

  • Age: Young

  • Weight Class: 165

  • High School/From: Cedar Springs, Michigan

  • #1 Motivation: Athletes that want to get better.

  • Quotes that describe you: "Competition, All I want from tomorrow is to be better than today."

  • Goals for wrestling: Olympic Champion

  • Why did you begin wrestling: I got into a fight on the playground. Also, I was a big basketball player and my basketball coach was the same coach as the wrestling team.

MEET THE TEAM

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS WRESTLING TEAM

Taylor Swanson

President

  • Age: 25

  • Weight Class: 133/141

  • High School/From: Klein High School, Houston, Texas

  • #1 Motivation: Personal Growth

  • Quotes that describe you: "Be the change you want to see in the world" -Ghandi

  • Goals for wrestling: National Title, then set new goals

  • Why did you begin wrestling: Older Brother was a wrestler

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Daniel Gardner

  • Age: 26

  • Weight Class: 141/149

  • High School/From: Moline High School

  • #1 Motivation: ??

  • Quotes that describe you: ??

  • Goals for wrestling: ??

  • Why did you begin wrestling: ??

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Jared Barrientez

  • Age: 21

  • Weight Class: 165

  • High School/From: Richland High School

  • #1 Motivation: Learning new techniques

  • Quotes that describe you: ??

  • Goals for wrestling: Learn as much as possible

  • Why did you begin wrestling: I began wrestling to prepare for my first MMA fight.

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John Neal

  • Age: 18

  • Weight Class: 235

  • High School/From: John Horn High School/ Portland, Oregon

  • #1 Motivation: My comrades and desire to be the best

  • Quotes that describe you: "The only one keeping you from being the best is yourself"

  • Goals for wrestling: To perfect my craft

  • Why did you begin wrestling: Coach believed I could become a champion.

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Austin Ellis

  • Age: 19

  • Weight Class: 141

  • High School/From: Frisco High School

  • #1 Motivation: To keep in shape

  • Quotes that describe you: "To get on the greco world team"

  • Goals for wrestling: To keep myself from being bullied

  • Why did you begin wrestling: When I  was younger

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Dionte Carter

  • Age: 21

  • Weight Class: 184

  • High School/From: Lakeview Centennial High School/ Michigan

  • #1 Motivation: Life

  • Quotes that describe you: Live for today, walk and pray for tomorrow

  • Goals for wrestling: Olympic Trials

  • Why did you begin wrestling: Had to sit out of fottball for a year

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Mark Snow

  • Age: 22

  • Weight Class: 197

  • High School/From: Keller High School

  • #1 Motivation: Internal need to continue and never quit

  • Quotes that describe you: "To each his own"

  • Goals for wrestling: Always get better

  • Why did you begin wrestling: Went to NCAA finals as a child and fell in love with the sport

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Kedrick Sousa

VP

  • Age: 23

  • Weight Class: 125

  • High School/From: Prince George High School, Prince George, VA/ Killeen, Texas

  • #1 Motivation: Slamming Fools

  • Quotes that describe you: Anything can happen - RIFF RAFF

  • Goals for wrestling: Beat everyone; All-American

  • Why did you begin wrestling: My dad was a wrestler and I was bored after football season one year so I tried something new.

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BJ Sterling

  • Age: 25

  • Weight Class: HWT

  • High School/From: LD Bell High School

  • #1 Motivation: To better myself

  • Quotes that describe you: Nothing in this world can take place of persistance, Talent will not: nothing is more common then unsuccessful men with talent

  • Goals for wrestling: Success, to better myself

  • Why did you begin wrestling: Kurt Angle

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Luis Garcia

  • Age: ??

  • Weight Class: 174

  • High School/From: ??

  • #1 Motivation: ??

  • Quotes that describe you: ??

  • Goals for wrestling: ??

  • Why did you begin wrestling: ??

    Kris Bickham

    • Age: 30

    • Weight Class: 185

    • High School/From: Plano, Texas

    • #1 Motivation: I lost to a wrestler in fighting in Legacy FC . I dont run from problems

    • Quotes that describe you: Fall down 8 times, get up 9

    • Goals for wrestling: Be as good as I can

    • Why did you begin wrestling: To be as well rounded as possible

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    Victor Aguirre

    • Age: ??

    • Weight Class: 165 

    • High School/From: ??

    • #1 Motivation: ??

    • Quotes that describe you: ??

    • Goals for wrestling: ??

    • Why did you begin wrestling: ??

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    Andrew Napieraj

    • Age: 21

    • Weight Class: 157

    • High School/From: Brother Rice High School/ Oak Park, MI

    • #1 Motivation: Success

    • Quotes that describe you: ??

    • Goals for wrestling: Student-Athlete/ Better the team/ National Title

    • Why did you begin wrestling: Started because my brother was in it, I love the sport and can timagine doing anything else.

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    Ryan McGahey

    • Age: 21

    • Weight Class: 197

    • High School/From: Richland high School

    • #1 Motivation: Friends and Family

    • Quotes that describe you: "Show me a good loser, and ill show you a loser"

    • Goals for wrestling: Become All-American

    • Why did you begin wrestling: I always enjoyed wrestling friends. When i found out my high school had a wrestling team , I was quick to join.

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    Troy Guter

    Founder

    • Age: 22

    • Weight Class: 149

    • High School/From: Frisco High School, Texas/ New Orleans, LA

    • #1 Motivation: To put UNT on the map nationally and to make UNT a wrestling family

    • Quotes that describe you: ???

    • Goals for wrestling: Become a National Champ

    • Why did you begin wrestling: Too small for football

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