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David Taylor is a 3 time all American. He’s one of the most dedicated wrestlers in Penn State history. Once you watch him wrestle you become an instant wrestling fan his motion his non-stop. He wrestles with passion. David has a national title also a Hodge trophy going into his final year as a Nittany lion. David has had a pretty good summer, making the U.S national freestyle team and the World University Games team. Taylors record is 34-0. He graduated this year. He’s known as magic man when hes on the mat. He ended his college career of 134-3.
In high school David won state all 4 years, in St. Paris Ohio. He also is a 2 time ACICS 1st team All American. In high school David wanted to go to iowa with Cael Sanderson, but when Cael moved to Pennsylvania so did David.
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Davids freshmen year of college when everybody goes home David stayed on campus to train.
On Thanksgiving day when everybody was eating with friends/family not David he never escaped wrestling, he ate thanksgiving in the director of wrestling’s house. If that doesn't seem like he’s committed to wrestling I don’t know what does. David Taylor is the first person in Penn State history to make all 4 years in the NCAA finals. He won his freshman year. His sophomore year he was in the finals at the NCAA again. Davids junior year he lost to Kyle Dake. His senior year he won the NCAA for the 2nd
time. This year he was named the big ten athlete of the year. This is the 2nd year in a row that a person from Penn State won. Last year Ed Ruth won. He also got the most dominant NCAA wrestler award. He also won the NWCA First Team All Academic (for the 4th time) This season he went 34-0. He has the Penn State record for the most pins (53). David never lost in a duel meet he was perfect to 56-0. David Taylor wrestled and graduated last year at Penn State. His coach is Cael Sanderson who is a olympic gold medalist. Cael wrestled and coached at Iowa state then went to Penn State 4 years ago. (David first year of college.) Now that he’s not in college anymore hes trying to go to the olympics. David and Ed Ruth are staying in Pennsylvania to train with Cael for the olympics. David is going to for the 2016 olympics. If you want to be the best you have to beat the best which is what he’s going to have to do beat Jordan Burroughs who won. In 2013 NCAA championship finals he lost to Kyle Dake. That was his only loss of that season. He had met Kyle at a camp they became friends then at the NCAA they had to wrestle. If Kyle won that would hold that record of winning the NCAA in 4 different weight classes and 4 different ages. Kyle Dake started coaching at Cornell wrestling club. So as you can see David Taylor is a very committed wrestler. He's been wrestling his whole life and hes never gave up, never stopped, followed his dreams. Hes not going to give up until he get of his dream of being in the olympics. He’s ranked #1 at his weight class which is 165. David is now in the Nittany lion Regional Olympic Training Center to prepare him and get him a spot for the 2016 USA olympic wrestling team. All wrestlers are the same and David proves it. People might think thanks Taylor likes to eat healthy and stay under 165...thats not the case he likes to eat a little more ice cream then his wrestling diet allows him! Just like any person he likes to listen to music and play video games. "Penn State Wrestling Club." Penn State Wrestling Club. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Nov. 2014. http://www.pennstatewrestlingclub.org/content/roster_detail.php?rosterid=225 "David Taylor Biography." Team USA. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Nov. 2014 http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Athlete-Bios/TA/David-Ta "Cael Sanderson's Media Day Press Conference Transcript." David Taylor Bio. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Nov. 2014. http://www.gopsusports.com/sports/m-wrestl/mtt/david_taylor_446170.html "Wrestler David Taylor Named Big Ten Male Athlete of the Year | Penn State University." Wrestler David Taylor Named Big Ten Male Athlete of the Year | Penn State University. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Nov. 2014. http://news.psu.edu/story/319086/2014/06/23/athletics/wrestler-david-taylor-named-big-ten-male-athlete-year
Cody Higginbotham is an extreme race fan from Guntersville, Alabama. Cody has received many great opportunities over the last ten years. He got his first big break working on a message board (forum) for Jamie Mosley in 2003. “Jamie was driving a part time schedule in the #39 for Jay Robinson. He offered me an opportunity to work on a message board for him. I was only 12 years old at the time. I will admit that I was pretty nervous, but I was also excited about the great opportunity I received.” Cody received a second great opportunity to work with Venturini Motorsports in 2004. “Venturini Motorsports marketing/ PR Tom Venturini noticed me when Billy Venturini was still driving. He offered me an amazing opportunity to work on a message board (forum) for them at the end of 2004 until 2007.” Cody also worked on a message board (forum) for Brad Keselowski in 2005 - 2009, David Gilliland in 2006-2007, Burney Lamar in 2009, and JD Motorsports in 2008 - 2012. Cody received more amazing opportunities before and after he was finished working on message boards for race teams.
Christopher Albert Herren (born September 27, 1975) from Fall River, Massachusetts, was the Durfee High School basketball superstar. His family’s basketball legacy at Durfee included his father, grandfather, two uncles and his older brother who Chris would drink with as a freshman in high school. His brother said that it was normal to drink, drug, fight, and play hard. Recruited by Boston College after turning down offers at the University of Kentucky and Duke University, Chris was featured in magazine articles including a Sports Illustrated cover story, hyping his success. In 1994, Chris broke his wrist playing his first game at Boston College. He took a year off from playing basketball to “not study and do drugs”. Within three months of his injury, Chris failed two drug tests and was subsequently kicked off the team and expelled from college. Drugs took everything away by the time he was eighteen years old.
A University of San Diego professor whose daughter’s disappearance become a recurring factor in his life, has finally gotten the peace he deserves. After approximately five years of three unsolved murders, assailant David Allen Lucas, was convicted and sentenced to death. Lucas was a carpet cleaner from Spring Valley, CA and was 23 when he first committed a murder, but this was not his first time being convicted. In 1973, at the age of 18 Lucas was incarcerated after being convicted of raping a 21-year-old maid who had worked for a family friend.
In 1976 Larry received a basketball scholarship to Indiana University where he would've played for coach Bobby Knight, but he left school after a week because he was homesick. A few months later Larry enrolled himself into Indiana State University. In his senior season at ISU Larry led the Sycamores to the NCAA Championship game where they played the Michigan State Spartans led by Larry's soon to be rival Earvin 'Magic' Johnson. Unfortunately for Larry and the Sycamores they lost to the Spartans, but Larry left ISU as the 5th highest scorer in NCAA history.
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- second in 45-49 age group in national championship 100 km in 8:51 in New York City in 1993, and
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...rld record in the 100 yard dash and won the 220 low hurdles all in under forty five minutes. In the Olympics he competed in the 100 meter dash, long jump, 220 meter dash and the 400 meter dash. In the Olympics he got four gold medals.
After passing his final exams in 1994, Iverson accepted an athletic scholarship to Georgetown University. As a member of the Georgetown Hoyas, Iverson immediately became the team’s star. During his freshman year he averaged twenty points, 4.7 assists, and 3.5 steals per game and was named the 1995 Big East Rookie of the Year and Big East Defensive Player of the Year. His performance was equally impressive during his sophomore year, and he was once again named Big East Defensive Player of the Year as well as named to the Associated Press’s 1996 First Team
David enrolled in the Académie Royal in 1766, when he was eighteen. In 1769 he competed for the first time in the Prix de Rome, and lost. It was not until his fifth attempt in 1774 that he finally won with his Antiochus and Stratonice. The Academy maintained a branch in Rome and winners of the Prix were sent there on a fellowship to continue their studies. David returned to France in 1779 as a well-skilled—if not yet well-known—artist and was able to display some work in the Salon. Over the next five years he gained notice as a supreme draftsman in studio nudes and as a man able to project classicism similar to Poussin. His work also appealed to the didactic philosophers of the Age of Reason. (Harber, 2)
Although Rice, a highly acclaimed Illinois high school player, fell short of repeating his Junior year’s magical state championship run. He was still a first team all-stater, the runner up in the 2010 Mr. Basketball contest, the leading scorer in Centennial history, and a highly ranked recruit within the state.
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Wrestling - Ryan Ashley. Ed. Ryan. Ashley. Spring Hope: Ryan Ashley, March 2014.
very good, but he had lost some of his focus. Later, in his high school career,
One of the things that David needs to do to increase his motivation and help him become The Resilient Athlete is to take responsibility for his successes and failures. He seems to be an external oriented athlete, but needs to become an internal oriented athlete to help him be more motivated. Since he never thinks his mistakes are his fault or responsibility, he has an external locus of control. This means he sees his ability as fixed and uncontrollable and therefore rejects responsibility for changing it. To change this, he needs to have internal locus of control because he will see effort as something he can control and then take personal responsibility for it (pg. 67). Athletes who take responsibility for their failures but can control their destiny are more capable of learning from their mistakes and work harder in their future (pg. 72).