#61 Troy Steiner - NCAA Champion, 9x US National Team Member and Fresno State Head Coach

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

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🗓️ 10 October 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Troy Steiner is the head coach at Fresno State, and spent 10 years at Oregon State from 2006-16, including the last four in the role of associate head coach. Steiner, a native of Bismarck, N.D. and graduate of Bismarck Century High School, went on to star as a wrestler at Iowa alongside with his brother, Terry, who was a three-time All-American with the Hawkeyes (1991-93) and 1993 NCAA Division I National Champion (150-pound weight class). Both Steiner brothers were inducted into the Glen Brand Wrestling Hall of Fame of Iowa on June 9, 2013. In post-collegiate competition, Steiner was a nine-time U.S. National Team member, winning the 1992 World Cup and the 1996 Pan-American Games titles. He placed third at the U.S. Olympic Trials in 1992 and 1996, and fifth in 2000.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show folks. This is wrestling changed my life. Here we go.
0:03.6	I'm telling you what March sophomore junior and senior year
0:07.9	there weren't a lot of days where I didn't not I didn't put three workouts in.
0:13.7	There weren't many days.
0:15.2	And I don't ever remember being off the mat
0:18.3	really from my ninth, tenth grade year
0:21.7	till I was done competing in 2000. So from 85 to 2000, I don't remember being
0:29.6	up the mat more than like one or two days in a row.
0:38.8	We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change. Wrestling gave us that ability.
0:46.0	I would say nothing in life has impacted me or the things wrestling has taught me in terms of
0:52.0	self-reflection, resilience.
0:54.0	Toughness. Some guys have it, some guys don't.
0:57.0	Adversity, 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.
1:02.0	And everything that has shaped my life and where I'm at today
1:06.5	would not be there without the values and basically the lessons I've learned through the
1:11.4	sport of wrestling. For me, you're wrestling saving my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.
1:18.0	We're fortunate if you wrestled because if you wrest you wrestle natural talent helps but it's 5% of the
1:28.3	ingredient it pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort. It humbled me, taught me
1:35.3	humility. Nothing can humble you more than wrestling. I think it's the
1:40.6	learning to adapt, right? You learn, you learn how to adapt, you learn how to solve problems.
1:45.8	You know, if I look back my time, I've spent wrestling.
1:48.3	If it gave me one thing more than anything else, it's been a toughness.
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