Lehigh University
Two LVWC resident athletes, Nester Taffur and Santiago Martinez, competed in the Columbian National Tournament. with Taffur defeating Martinez 10-0.
Both made the finals with Taffur (Bolivar & LVWC), defeating Martinez (Bogota & LVWC) 10-0. Nestor
Taffur had 2 technical falls and Santi Martinez had a fall 8-0 in reaching the finals.
Winning this tournament qualifies Nestor for the 2017 Colombian National National Team and for the Pan Am Games.
Buxton/Rey
The stars lined up. United World Wrestling wanted Iran to be in the finals. We wanted to wrestle well through the pool of death to get to the finals. We wanted to wrestle Iran under these political pressures, in their arena. Ultimately, the World Cup set the stage for the Friday night fireworks of Iran vs USA. (more…)
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Yesterday was an amazing experience for me. The people of Iran are so passionate about wrestling and they cheered us on as we wrestled in a match in the second round. After our matched I stayed and watched Iran vs India, and Azerbaijan vs Georgia and the house was rockin! (more…)
Buxton/Rey
We wrestled 2nd in our pool but the first match was very exciting. Russia and Azeberjian tied 4 wins each and the classification points were tied as each match went all 3 points to 1 so classification points (more…)
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All the other teams have arrived and we all are in the same hotel. Weigh-ins were at 6 pm and everyone did really well with the weight control. Most of my day was spent watching (more…)
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Today our focus was on weight management during our afternoon workout. We weigh in at 6pm tomorrow and everyone is in good shape and will make weight with ease. The focus is good and everyone looks forward to our upcoming matches. (more…)
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I read the blog I posted yesterday and obvisously I lacked appropriate sleep. After getting three hours in, we woke up early for breakfast and had an early departure from Tehran to Kermanshah. We found out there was a delay for weather. The good news was that we were flying to Kermanshah with the Iranian World Cup Team. (more…)
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We missed Sunday because of the time change; it’s a 9.5 hour time difference. We stayed in a hotel in Frankfurt (more…)
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Zach and I begin our travels from my apartment to Newark airport preparing for a 7 1/2 hour flight to Frankfurt. Once we get to Frankfurt we will have a 9 hour layover before we fly to Teheran. (more…)
Resident Athlete Zach Rey will be competing as part of the U.S. National team in the Paris International Tournament January 27th -29th. Rey will compete at 125 kg along with teammates Bobby Telford (Iowa) and Tony Nelson (Minnesota). LVWC Head Coach Jeff Buxton will be coaching along side Slay and Kenny Monday during their time in Paris. (more…)