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Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

#455 Doug Schwab - UNI Head Coach, Olympian, NCAA Champion

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

Sports

51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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ABOUT THIS EPISODE Doug Schwab is the head coach at UNI. As a wrestler, Coach Schwab was an NCAA champion for Iowa and an Olympian in 2008. Doug’s Olympic teammates include Daniel Cormier, Ben Askren, and Henry Cejudo. Enjoy! (Photo: Tony Rotundo / Wrestlers Are Warriors) PRESENTING SPONSOR This Episode is presented by CauseMatch. Fundraise smarter, and widen your donor base and inspire larger gifts with peer-to-peer fundraising provided by CauseMatch. Go to https://lp.causematch.com/wrestling-clubs-demo/ to schedule your first peer-to-peer fundraising campaign.

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0:00.0

I know what is teaching them is people and that's why I love the sport and that's why I'm glad that I'm in the sport

0:05.4

I never really pushed them to they're around it, you know, they started a little bit later and then you know

0:10.5

They've taken hold of it and now it's like I said that I'm going to hold them to those things

0:14.1

That's what and if I just got to keep grading them on those things because I feel like you know, they'll be they'll be quality

0:21.3

He made so be called people. They'll we're still going to want to help a lot of matches

0:25.4

I'm not going to try to ever lose sight of those other things first and if I do then

0:30.0

You know what I'll have some people around me. I think we'll tell me hey, you know what you're you're losing sight of this like your relationship with your son is not worth a wrestling match

0:41.4

We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change

0:47.2

Wrestling give us that ability. I would say nothing in life is impacted me or the things wrestling has taught me in terms of

0:54.9

self-reflection resilience

0:56.9

Toughness some guys have it some guys don't

1:00.0

Adversity 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed and

1:05.2

Everything that is shaped my life

1:07.5

And where I'm at today would not be there without the values and basically the lessons I've learned to the sport of wrestling

1:15.2

For me you wrestle and say no life because it's it allowed me to focus and channel my energy

1:22.2

We're fortunate if you wrestled because if you wrestled

1:25.8

Natural talent helps, but it's it's

1:30.1

5% of the ingredients it pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort

1:36.9

It humbled me pump the humility nothing can hit humble you more than wrestling

1:41.8

I think it's the learning to adapt right you learn you learn how to adapt you learn how to solve problems

1:49.2

Now if I look back my time that's good wrestling if they give me one thing more than anything else it's not toughness

1:54.8

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the wrestling change my life podcast

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