#106 Matt McDonough - 2x NCAA Champ, Wisconsin Assistant Coach

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

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🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Matt McDonough is an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin. Prior to coaching, McDonough was a 3x NCAA finalist, 2x NCAA champ for the Iowa Hawkeyes. He carried on that great Iowa tradition of dominating at the 125lbs weight class. In this interview we talk about: **Matt’s obsession with winning an NCAA title **The invisible man that he used during training **The cut to 125 **Wrestling and life lessons **Being a dad **His transition into coaching Fan of the week goes to Jude Latkovich. If you want to hear more from the show, text Wrestle to 555-888.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show folks. This is wrestling changed my life. Here we go.
0:03.6	Wrestling is life. I mean you look at wrestling, definition in the dictionary, a struggle,
0:08.6	I mean shoot, that's, the older you get the more you realize that is life.
0:14.0	We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change.
0:22.0	Wrestling gave us that ability. and pivot and change.
0:25.0	Wrestling gave us that ability. I would say nothing in life has impacted me
0:28.0	or the things wrestling has taught me in terms of
0:31.0	self-reflection, resilience.
0:33.0	Toughness.
0:34.0	Some guys have it, some guys don't.
0:36.0	Adversity, 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.
0:41.0	And everything that has shaped my life and where I'm at today would not be there
0:46.8	without the values and basically the lessons I've learned through the sport of wrestling.
0:51.2	For me, wrestling saved my life
0:53.0	because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.
0:58.8	We're fortunate if you wrestled because if you wrestled,
1:02.3	natural talent helps,
1:05.1	but it's 5% of the ingredient.
1:08.4	It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.
1:13.6	It humbled me, taught me humility.
1:15.4	Nothing can humble you more than wrestling.
1:19.0	I think it's the learning to adapt, right?
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