#147 Trent Paulson - NCAA Champion, World Team Member, Virginia Assistant Coach

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

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🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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ABOUT THIS EPISODE Trent Paulson is the assistant wrestling coach at the University of Virginia. He and his twin brother Travis were STUD wrestlers for Iowa State. Trent won a NCAA title in 2007 and made the US World Team in 2009. After coaching at Iowa State for a few years, Travis took a coaching position at Virginia and Trent followed suit. Now, they are building a really strong program at one of the great public institutions in the US, the University of Virginia. Enjoy this one folks! FOLLOW THE PODCAST WrestlingChangedMyLife.com SPONSOR This episode is brought to you by Assembly Fall, a new audio documentary that went live last Tuesday. You can listen via episode #145 in the feed, or by texting IHSA to 555-888. About Assembly Fall: In a match dubbed as the biggest upset in Illinois history, Matt Kucala defied the odds and pinned the previously unbeaten Eric Tannenbaum at the 2001 IHSA state finals. Assembly Fall takes an in-depth look at that match and answers the question: is it the biggest upset in state history? ABOUT THE WRESTLING CHANGED MY LIFE PODCAST Hosted by Ryan Warner, the Wrestling Changed My Life Podcast features in-depth interviews with wrestlers and coaches to learn how the sport shaped and molded their lives. By stitching together stories of sacrifice, triumph, defeat and perseverance, the Podcast takes the listener deep inside the world’s oldest sport. New episodes are released every Monday and Wednesday.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show folks. This is wrestling changed my life. Here we go.
0:03.6	As young kids, Travis and I were kind of known as the extremely honorary kids.
0:08.3	Almost the kids that parents warned you to stay away from.
0:11.2	I remember when we were in kindergarten,
0:13.1	it was the only time they ever put Travis 9
0:14.7	in the same class, and the teacher left the room
0:16.5	to go get something.
0:17.6	And when she came back, all the desks
0:19.9	were pushed to the side of the room,
0:21.5	and all the students formed a circle around
0:23.2	Travis and I and we were like fighting slash wrestling slash not knowing what the
0:26.9	hell we were doing just like probably throwing fists and trying to kill each
0:30.1	other but...
0:32.1	We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change. Wrestling
0:40.3	gave us that ability. I would say nothing in life has impacted me
0:44.1	or the things wrestling has taught me
0:46.2	in terms of self-reflection, resilience.
0:49.6	Toughness.
0:50.5	Some guys have it, some guys don't. Adversity.
0:53.0	100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.
0:57.0	And everything that has shaped my life and where I'm at today would not be there without the values and basically the lessons I've learned through the sport of wrestling.
1:08.0	For me, wrestling saved my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.
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