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...good night for us obviously,” Crimson coach Peter Brand said. “I was very happy to see the men’s foil squad performing better than they had last time...
...teammates and coach have been helping him to improve and realize the potential he has. They’ve worked with him to adjust his skills, style, and mental stamina to succeed as a Crimson wrestler. Particularly, his coach, Jay Weiss, and co-captain, JP O’Connor, have watched him progress...
...high school coach also noted Keith’s “understanding at an early age that he needed to be around top-level people and ask them questions to excel.” Keith soaked up the talent around him, improving tremendously over the years...
With the training of his coach, Keith dominated in high school, winning the state title as a sophomore and a senior, going 185-15 over his career, including 46-0 his senior season. But the transition from high school wrestling to college wrestling is a big one, and Keith admitted that it was a challenge for him in the beginning...
...1990s, where did Nordic combined sit in America's Winter Olympic hierarchy? "We were at the bottom of the barrel," says Tom Steitz, the U.S. Nordic combined coach from 1980 to 2002. "We owned last place." Over the past decade, Steitz has led the push to snare more funding for the obscure sport, which mixes ski jumping and cross-country skiing. But he recalls the days in which Nordic combined athletes trekked through Europe like broke college students, sleeping in elementary school gyms, piling into tiny rental cars like circus clowns, begging other countries to drive their skis to events...