Steve's Guests on TDR This week:
9:05 Ken Kraft- Founder of the Midlands Tournament of Champions at Northwestern University.
This is the event of the holiday season. Ken is the founder and we'll happily
present this addition to the wrestling public. The date of this years
Midlands Dec 29th and 30th
9:20 Tony Ersland- Assist. Head Coach of Nebraska- Jordan Burroughs is on everyone's mind.
How has he done since breaking off his teeth at MN. Also, Tony and his wife are
expecting... Twins!
9:40 Max Askren- 184 pound standout at Missouri. This is a good kid and a tremendous
wrestler. he dropped down a weight to compete this year and looks to be on track to
challenge for a title.
10:05 Jake Herbert- 2009: U.S. World Team Trials champion… U.S. Nationals champion…
2008: Bronze medalist at World University Championships… Fifth in Alexander Medved International… Dave Schultz Memorial International champion… 2007: Hargobind International (Canada) champion… Second in Sunkist Kids International Open… 2006: Bronze medalist at World University Championships… University Nationals champion…
College: Four-time All-American at Northwestern University, where he was coached by Tim Cysewski… 2007 and 2009 NCAA Champion… 2009 Hodge Trophy winner… Took an Olympic Redshirt in 2008… Compiled 32-0 record in 2007… Second in 2006 NCAA Championships… Third in 2005 NCAA Championships… Three-time Big Ten champion in 2006, 2007 and 2009…
10:20 Joe LeBlanc- Wyoming Cowboy A returning All-American at 184 pounds, LeBlanc has handled an eventful past year maturely and has come back working harder than ever. He enters his sophomore year ranked in the top-five of multiple preseason national polls. LeBlanc has blossomed under the guidance of head coach Mark Branch and his goals consist of nothing less than an NCAA title. He continued to gain high-level experience this past summer when he wrestled at the FILA Junior World Team Trials.
10:40 Kurt Kinser- Indiana Hoosier Qualified for the NCAA Championships for the second consecutive year after placing sixth at Big Tens ... moved up to the 157-lbs. weight class and posted a 19-10 record overall, 5-3 in the Big Ten ... finished the regular season ranked 15th nationally, ranking as high as ninth earlier in the year ... compiled five pins, a tech fall and two major decisions throughout the season ... tallied four wins over nationally-ranked opponents on the year ... earned Big Ten Wrestler of the Week laurels after beginning his season with a 5-0 weekend and individual title at the Michigan State Open ... defeated #8 Matt Moley (Bloomsburg) in the second overtime en route to his MSU Open crown ... followed that up by going 5-2 at the Las Vegas Open for a seventh place finish that included wins over #17 Matt Dragon of Penn and #13 Jason Johnstone from Ohio State ... also topped Northwestern's Jason Welch twice, once when he was unranked early in the season and again during the dual match when Welch was slotted #14 in the national rankings ... picked up a win at NCAAs, eliminating Jess Dong of Virginia Tech from the competition with a 10-2 major decision.
10:40 Steve Kinser- Proud Dad of Kurt-
Kinser was a high school wrestler and kung fu expert. He finished second in state as a junior, and won state as a senior. Both of his sons wrestled in high school, the youngest Kurt also won state as a senior, capping off the Bloomington High School South team's excellent season. In 2008, Kurt was a redshirt sophomore at Indiana University, competing at the 149 and 157-pound weight classes.
Steve Kinser had high expectations entering the 2009 season as he does every year, in search of another championship to add to his record 20 World of Outlaws titles. He began the season by recording Top-10 finishes in 14 of the first 15 races and took the series point lead for the first time since 2005 following a win in his home state of Indiana at Tri-State Speedway. He would hold the top spot for a couple of weeks as he entrenched himself as one of the drivers to beat each and every night.
Though some bad luck befell him throughout the year, Kinser turned in yet another consistent season that saw him pick up 49 Top-10 finishes, with 32 of those being Top-Fives to finish the year fourth in the World of Outlaws championship standings. It marked the 26th time in his illustrious career that he has finished fourth or better in points. He was also a state champion
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