Family & Florida

Third daughter – third college graduate. Molly Gable just recently graduated from the U of Iowa. She was also a swimmer for Iowa under Coach Marc Long for her four years. Great experience – but now onto the real world. Well, maybe not yet…but coming up!

Watched Mike Duroe’s team at Cornell work out. Mike is doing a good job with their group.

Florida – Onto Naples to visit with President and Vice President of FILA – our international wrestling governing body. President Martinetti of Switzerland has a vacation home in Naples and Vice President Saletnig (formerly of Montreal) has his permanent residence now in Naples. Rich Bender (Executive Director of USA Wrestling). Stan Dziedzic (President of USA Wrestling), Rick Tucci (FILA Official Representative) and I were in attendance with these guys. We mostly had a roundtable discussion and after that went to dinner where the roundtable talk continued. It was very much worth my time, for I left with several impressions and much-needed information.

We need work and enhancement on our Olympic product and efforts, for we in wrestling have so much potential that we haven’t even captured yet.