#470 Seth Gross - NCAA Champ, World Team Member, Wisconsin AC

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

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🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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ABOUT THIS EPISODE Seth Gross is an NCAA champion, 2x NCAA finalist, and former World Team Member. He’s currently the Assistant Coach at Wisconsin. Enjoy! * PRESENTING SPONSOR This Episode is presented by NCAA Champion Teague Moore’s business, The Wrestling Consultant. When should a Sophomore plan on calling and talking to a college wrestling coach? When should a Junior plan their official campus visit? Can they plan an unofficial visit? Does a Senior need to complete NCAA Eligibility Center registration if they have not taken an official visit? The Wrestling Consultant can answer these and many more questions for you. Set up a consultation today!

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0:00.0	Yeah, basically, even up, I remember I was, you know, really thinking I was just going
0:05.2	to go to community college, and I started selling cell phones at Target, I really packed
0:11.8	on the pounds, I got up to 170 pounds, I was down and out.
0:19.4	We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change, wrestling gave us that ability.
0:26.4	I would say nothing in life has impacted me, or the things wrestling has taught me in
0:31.3	terms of self-reflection, resilience, toughness, some guys have it, some guys don't.
0:37.5	Adversity, 100%, how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.
0:42.9	And everything that has shaped my life and what I'm at today would not be there without
0:48.6	the values and basically the lessons I've learned to the sport of wrestling.
0:53.2	For me, wrestling is in a life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.
0:59.2	Well, fortunate if you wrestled because if you wrestled, natural talent helps, but it's
1:07.3	5% of the ingredients.
1:09.8	It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.
1:13.9	It humbled me, taught me humility, nothing can humble you more than wrestling.
1:20.3	I think it's the learning to adapt, right?
1:22.9	You learn, you learn how to adapt, you learn how to solve problems.
1:26.1	You know, probably back in my time, that's good wrestling, if you did, the one thing more
1:30.2	than anything else that's mental toughness.
1:32.9	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Wrestling Change My Life podcast.
1:37.0	It's your host, Ryan Warner, coming to you from Chicago, I.L. on Monday, December 4th.
1:43.2	What a weekend of wrestling at the CKLV out in Vegas.
1:46.8	I'm having Earl Smith on the podcast tomorrow to break down all the action from Vegas.
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