Yesterday the wheels of the oversized rusty charter bus
rolled out of River Falls, WI. Carol the
bus driver has taken several hundred wrestlers all over the United States with
the Wisconsin Wrestling Federation, so it was fitting that she would take our
crew of 40 wrestlers, parents and a few future wrestlers on our first annual
Tour Across America.
A handful of wrestlers showed up in River Falls on Thursday
night and pitched tents in my back yard in anticipation of our Friday morning departure.
We will spend seven days together trekking across Minnesota,
Iowa, Nebraska and Colorado. The first
stop is Lincoln, NE to watch the USA Wrestling World Team Trials for Men’s
Freestyle and then we will head West to Colorado Springs, CO. We’ll jump into a few practices at the US
Olympic Training Center and do our best to experience the “incline” (weather
permitting).
The bus ride to Lincoln went very well. Despite falling behind on our schedule and
forcing one athlete to wait a couple of hours at the pick-up spot in Des
Moines, everything went smoothly. We
went through a case of water and four movies before arriving at the hotel in
Lincoln early in the evening.
After a long day on the road, the athletes were on their own
for the evening to get settled in and ready for a big day of being a wrestling
fan at the Bob Devaney Center on the campus of the University of Nebraska. Everyone is excited to watch some great action.
We’re carrying with us male and female high school athletes
from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas and Missouri.
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