Jul 01
Terry Brands was at the World Wrestling Wrestling Camp in Wisconsin Dells, Wisc., providing instruction for high school wrestlers throughout the Midwest. Brands, a two-time NCAA champion and two-time World champion, coaches the Hawkeye Wrestling Club and is the head assistant coach at the University of Iowa.
Brands talked with Wrestling 411 about his role at the camp and what he wants campers to gain from the experience. But he also talked about the possibility of becoming a head coach, the relevance of Iowa-style wrestling, and his purpose for 2009.
Listening to Terry Brands gets me pumped up. I’m 65 and still coaching. But, when listening to Tom & Terry, I get motivated and understand the purpose of what I am doing in guiding young men to better lives through the great sport of wrestling.
Thank you 411 for allowing us to hear such testimonies to life, sport, and the sense of being.
Reply to Randy QualitzaAgreed Mr. Qualitza, I love listening to those guys talk.
Reply to kevinThis past wrestling season I walked into the Iowa room just as Tom Brands was about to address the team before a practice. At the same time Terry was mopping the mat. It is said that “more is caught than taught.” If that is true then 30 or so Hawkeye student/athletes caught a lesson in humility that day. Hopefully they will take it forward into their own lives as Terry is living it in his. Perhaps map-mopping is the wrestling version of feet-washing that Jesus taught his disciples to do as an act of service.
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