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World Team Trials- May 29, 2009 ·
I am currently in Council Bluffs, Iowa, for the World Team Trials. The winner of this tournament will be representing the USA in the World Championships held in Denmark. This tournament showcases the best wrestlers the USA has to offer. This will be a very tough tournament. I am focused, relaxed and ready to go. I will weigh in Saturday and wrestle on Sunday. If you are not busy on Sunday you can watch the tournament on the internet. Here is a site that can help you get to the coverage for Sunday (http://www.themat.com/section.php?section_id=3&page=showarticle&ArticleID=20398 ).There will also be wrestling on Saturday, if you are a die hard you can check out both days. Thanks for all your support. That’s all I have for now. I’ll keep you posted and keep praying for my success.
TheMat.com Rankings - 03/23/2009 ·
66 KG/145.5 LBS.
1. Faruk Sahin, Colorado Springs, Colo. (U.S. Army)
2. Jacob Curby, LaGrange, Ill. (USOEC/New York AC)
3. Oscar Wood, Fountain, Colo. (U.S. Army)
4. Kerry Regner, Darlington, Pa. (USOEC/Sunkist Kids)
5. Teyon Ware, Springboro, Ohio (New York AC)
6. Matt Holt, Colorado Springs, Colo. (unattached)
7. Donald Vinson, Marathon, N.Y. (Shamrock WC)
8. Bo Beckman, Pleasant Grove, Utah (USOEC/New York AC)
9. Esai Dominguez, Omaha, Neb. (New York AC)
10. Shanon Slack, Irvine, Calif. (New York AC)
Results of 2009 U.S. Nationals ·
I placed 6th this past weekend at the Senior U.S. Nationals. This qualifies me for the World Team Trials. It was a big relief to qualify for the trials and place at a new weight. However, I am a little disappointed with the 6th place finish. I started off with a dominating victory and then fell short in the quarterfinals. I rallied off two wins against two tough teammates and friends. I then fell short to another teammate/friend. I finished off the day with another tough loss in the 5th place match. As I stated this was my first time at this weight for nationals, but I have been wrestling this weight for almost a year now. It is now time for me to stop looking at this as a new weight and continue to climb the ladder. The World Team Trials is over a month away. This will give me ample time work on the things that failed me at Nationals. Thanks for all your support. That’s all I have for now. I’ll keep you posted and keep praying for my success.
2009 U.S. Nationals (by Bet) ·
I went on themat.com and found out the finals are on ESPNU, so you can only see them if you have that channel. The finals are on 9-11pm eastern standard time. To find out how Kerry is doing check trackwrestling.com and look at his bracket or feel free to message us or give us a call.
2009 U.S. Nationals ·
I’m sure all of you are excited to see how Kerry will do tomorrow. I know that I am very excited and even though I can not be in Las Vegas, I still want to see my big brother wrestle. I know the websites can be very confusing so I hope that this will help you if you want to see him wrestle live. LiveSportsVideo.com will have live video of the matches on their website. However, they will only air the prelims through the semi-finals. When you go to the website you can make a username and password for free. Below the sign in it says “Not a member? Register Free” click that and you can set up an account. Once you sign in, there will be different links and one will be about the U.S. Nationals in Las Vegas. Once you click on that, you will be given the different options of cameras. Probably one or two cameras. We can not tell you which camera he will be on so the best thing you can do is have both videos running and listen to the announcer. If you can not watch the videos you can access the tournament brackets by going to www.trackwrestling.com You will need to click on Senior Men’s Greco-Roman, beside it will have the date and location to make sure you have the right one. After you click Senior Men’s Greco-Roman click Enter Tournament. Then next page will say click here to continue to browse the website. Click Here. Kerry is in the 66 Kg, so click that weight class. Then click view bracket. The brackets will be up later. I am not sure how to watch the finals, so I will continue to check www.themat.com and will update this site to let everyone know. Feel free to also check on themat.com
Kerry, I will continue to pray for you. Do you best and wrestle hard! Love you,
Bet
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2009 U.S. Nationals (4/09/09) ·
I am currently in Las Vegas, Nevada preparing for Senior Nationals. This tournament is for all the marbles. I weigh in later today and will wrestle tomorrow. My sister Bet seems to have more knowledge on details of this tournament than me. She will do a write up later today with details on how to follow and even watch me wrestle tomorrow. I now have to go shed off the last couple of pounds to weigh in. Thanks for all your support. That’s all I have for now. I’ll keep you posted and keep praying for my success.
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Slovenia- Spring Tour 2009 II ·
Today I finished up the tour going 1-1 on the day. I won my first match in three periods against Austria. My second match was a loss to Lithuania 1-0, 1-0. He then lost in the semifinals putting me out of the tournament. It’s a hard pill to swallow. I know that I am not where I need to be to succeed at this new weight class. I am going have to work hard to get to that point. I have had a nice tour as far as a learning experience goes. Besides the losses everything has gone smooth. We head out early in the morning getting back into the states late Sunday night.
As you can tell by my recent trips and tournaments I am improving on keeping you guys updated. I plan to continue this and even have ideas to update the website with more features. I also am glad that many of you have noticed the comment section below each blog. It is encouraging and motivating to hear your thoughts, comments and quotes. My next competition will be Senior Nationals over Easter weekend. Thanks for all your support. That’s all I have for now. I’ll keep you posted and keep praying for my success.
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Slovenia- Spring Tour 2009 ·
Everything on this trip has been going quite smoothly. I have been in Slovenia since Monday afternoon. We traveled by bus from Szombathely to Murska Sobata. I was fortunate enough to see the rural area of Hungary and Slovenia. Much of the ride we passed through rolling hills and farm land. Murska Sobata is a smaller city in North East Slovenia. For the last couple of days we have had a few practices along with some recovery at a local wellness center. The wellness center is very nice and we will be visiting it again to get our weight down for weigh-ins. I continue to grow in my wrestling getting tips from some other coaches who are here on the tour with us. We will be weighing in on Friday and wrestling on Saturday. I have heard that there will be 15 countries here for the Slovenian Grand Prix. I hope to do some site seeing with some other guys tomorrow. The next time you hear from me will be my last post of this tour which will be after the tournament. That’s all I have for now. I’ll keep you posted and keeping praying for my success.
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Hungary- Spring Tour 2009 III ·
Coming into this tournament I knew this would be the toughest one of the year. I had 25 guys in my bracket from all over the world. Today did not go as planned, losing my first match to Karel Hanak of the Czech Republic. He did not advance to the finals putting me out of contention for third place. Doing a lot of travel, work and preparation to wrestle one match puts a very bitter taste in my mouth. This tournament continues to be a humbling experience. I understand I need to work on more than a few things if I want to be successful at this level. I still have a week left of this tour. Tomorrow I will travel to Slovenia where we will stay until Sunday. We will be wrestling in a tournament in Slovenia on Saturday. I am anxious to rid myself of this bad taste. That’s all for now, I’ll keep you posted and keep praying for my success.
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Hungary- Spring Tour 2009 II ·
Today we took a bus ride from Budapest to Szombathely, which took a little under four hours. I slept most of the way so the time flew by. Four of the seven weight classes weigh in today (60, 74, 84 and 120 kg.) and wrestle tomorrow. I will weigh in tomorrow and wrestle Sunday along with the remaining three weight classes (55, 66 and 96 kg.). This is a big and difficult tournament, with up to 26 countries. I have not fared so well in the last two years and plan on turning that around. The weather is pretty nice with the temperature in the 50’s. From what I understand Marquette, Michigan is getting blasted with a blizzard. My next post will be after the tournament hopefully with some good news. That’s all for now, I’ll keep you posted and keep praying for my success.
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