Medina students meet wrestling champ
Provided photo: Jordan Burroughs, an Olympic champion wrestler, is pictured with two Medina wrestlers in the modified program: Dominick Callara, left, and Logan Callara.
Press Release, Medina Central School
MEDINA – Two Medina students, Dominick and Logan Callara, had a chance to meet a wrestling legend recently.
Jordan Burroughs is an Olympic gold medalist, world champion and national champion. He was recently at a wrestling clinic at the University at Buffalo where the two boys, who are in the modified wrestling program at Medina Clifford Wise Middle School, had the chance to meet him and get his autograph.
Christian Held, coach of the modified team, says that the modified program is for 7th and 8th graders and has 20 athletes participating this year.
“Modified wrestling teaches basic wrestling skills and the rules of wrestling,” he said. “They compete in shorter matches, but follow all standard wrestling rules. Our main goal of our modified program is to prepare new and young wrestlers to compete at a varsity level when they get to high school.”
Held invited all of his athletes to attend the wrestling clinic at UB where Burroughs spent two hours showing wrestling moves and answering questions from the audience.
Dominick Callara was thrilled to have the champion sign his headgear.
“It was a great clinic,” Held said. “It was an honor to learn new things from one of the greats in our sport. Most consider Mr. Burroughs to be the greatest wrestler in the USA right now.”
