The Bader Show Mark Bader

J'den Cox had an illustrious career winning three NCAA titles and two World titles. He announced his retirement at the 2024 Olympic Trials and joins us to talk through his incredible journey through the sport of wrestling.
0:03 - Fall in love with wrestling first
0:05 - Retiring
0:12 - Dreaming big
0:19 - Mike Eierman
0:22 - Moments he will miss the most
0:25 - Who did he like wrestling?
0:28 - 2021 Olympic Trials fiasco
0:33 - 2023 Final X and the emotional fallout
0:45 - What’s next
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NCAA Champion Richie Figueroa joins the show to talk about his up and down season, catching fire at the end and how he gets himself into the zone.
0:01 - Wanting to be an NCAA Champion
0:04 - The Courtney Courtney 
0:06 - Selma
0:09 - Ups and downs of the year
0:12 - Almost quit
0:14 - Confidence through the roof
0:18 - Don’t take it too seriously
0:20 - NCAA Finals match
0:23 - Finding the zone
0:28 - Olympic Trials
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Adaugo Nwachukwu won the 2023-2024 USA Wrestling Women's College Wrestler of the Year award. She was the national champion at 136 and went 21-0 with six pins and 15 tech falls for William Penn University.
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Iowa Hawkeye 3x NCAA Champion Spencer Lee joins the show to talk about his FloWrestling film Spencer & Austin: Wrestletown, USA.
0:01 - Wrestletown, USA
0:03 - Austin’s always been aggressive
0:09 - Wrestling w no ACLs
0:13 - Learning about yourself
0:17 - Post match interviews
0:23 - Austin showed up after his NCAA loss
0:29 - Last time he was this healthy?
0:35 - NCAA’s and being a celebrity
0:37 - Training with Gilman at Iowa
0:40 - Freestyle vs folkstyle
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Ava recently won her NCWWC regional and will wrestle in the National Championships next week,
0:01 - Following her brothers into wrestling
0:03 - Teacher told her girls don't wrestle
0:07 - Watching women wrestle in the Olympics
0:09 - Going to Wyoming Seminary
0:13 - Preparing for college
0:16 - The Iowa vision
0:18 - Developing a culture
0:21 - National Championships and North Central
0:24 - Ava's NIL deal
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NC State associate head coach Adam Hall has been announced as the head coach at Utah Valley University starting one day after the NCAA Championships.
0:04 - Why coaching?
0:07 - USAW internship grassroot RTCs
0:11 - Coaching at Columbia
0:13 - Wanting to be a head coach
0:15 - NC State producing head coaches
0:21 - NC State memories
0:24 - Read the person read the room
0:26 - Growing the fanbase, growing UVU
0:30 - Putting together a coaching staff
0:33 - Vision for the UVU
0:38 - Sweat it out
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