First of all, I want to thank CholleyVandine for posting Airey Bros. Radio's interview with SVN (post #89 on the SVN to PSU thread). Since I have no life, I decided to listen to the 53 minute interview and post some highlights for those of you who actually have lives. Here are some nuggets:
"The team culture was unlike anything I have ever felt."
"I could feel that every single one of them was hungry to be better at wrestling."
The Big Ten schedule was important to SVN.
After he told the PSU coaches early on that he wasn't interested, they told him, "You're the guy and we want you so we're not gonna' let you say no."
"[Cael] is funny in the dad joke kind of way. He doesn't really relate with the times. He's not big on social media and all of that. He definitely was not my favorite at first, but he's starting to grow on me."
Cody was SVN's favorite and who he talked to the most.
His anticipated starting weight in college will be 141 or 149, but if he grows throughout his college career he may end up at 157. His walking around weight is 150.
He will wrestle 138 in high school this year.
Whether or not he will redshirt his first year is up in the air, especially with COVID.
His mindset for in-season practices is to, "Go in and be the hardest worker in the room."
His mindset is that he goes into each match trailing and needs to immediately start scoring points. "Score one point. Score again, score again, and that's the mindset. I'm trying to score every 30 seconds and just continue to put points on the board."
He didn't start FS until high school, but it is starting to grow on him.
He loves hand fighting, and if he could hand fight for seven minutes in a match he would.
His parents did not pressure him on his college decision, but he feels his father [who wrestled at Rutgers] liked Princeton, and his mother liked Cornell. Interestingly, both interviewers, when SVN told them early in the interview that he had narrowed his final two choices to Cornell and Penn State, guessed he was going to choose Cornell.
When asked what is the one thing he does every day, he said, "Get one percent better."
"The team culture was unlike anything I have ever felt."
"I could feel that every single one of them was hungry to be better at wrestling."
The Big Ten schedule was important to SVN.
After he told the PSU coaches early on that he wasn't interested, they told him, "You're the guy and we want you so we're not gonna' let you say no."
"[Cael] is funny in the dad joke kind of way. He doesn't really relate with the times. He's not big on social media and all of that. He definitely was not my favorite at first, but he's starting to grow on me."
Cody was SVN's favorite and who he talked to the most.
His anticipated starting weight in college will be 141 or 149, but if he grows throughout his college career he may end up at 157. His walking around weight is 150.
He will wrestle 138 in high school this year.
Whether or not he will redshirt his first year is up in the air, especially with COVID.
His mindset for in-season practices is to, "Go in and be the hardest worker in the room."
His mindset is that he goes into each match trailing and needs to immediately start scoring points. "Score one point. Score again, score again, and that's the mindset. I'm trying to score every 30 seconds and just continue to put points on the board."
He didn't start FS until high school, but it is starting to grow on him.
He loves hand fighting, and if he could hand fight for seven minutes in a match he would.
His parents did not pressure him on his college decision, but he feels his father [who wrestled at Rutgers] liked Princeton, and his mother liked Cornell. Interestingly, both interviewers, when SVN told them early in the interview that he had narrowed his final two choices to Cornell and Penn State, guessed he was going to choose Cornell.
When asked what is the one thing he does every day, he said, "Get one percent better."
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