I have enjoyed watching your career, and as you now transition to a new stage in life, I am sure the lessons you have learned from wrestling will translate to future success.
Thank you Zain!
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A true PA hammer and a super classy man. The way he handled the woman from Oky St., cursing in his face tells you alot about Zain the man.
Thank you for all the great wrestling memories in our blue and white singlet. So grateful you were able to win last year's 70 kg gold. Wanting the best for you and your family. You will always be successful with your attitude and work ethic! Thank you!
Thank you for all the great wrestling memories in our blue and white singlet. So grateful you were able to win last year's 70 kg gold. Wanting the best for you and your family. You will always be successful with your attitude and work ethic! Thank you!
To me, Zain is the prototypical PA wrestler. Stronger than the farm animals (or fruit) you raised as a kid, tough as nails, elite technique on top, respectful and open to coaching, humble, and kind.
Love him, and so grateful for the chance to see him compete.
I’m sure he will do well in life, and have fun doing it.
Love him, and so grateful for the chance to see him compete.
I’m sure he will do well in life, and have fun doing it.
My wife and I had the chance to meet his parents and family yesterday. It is said the apple doesn't fall far from the tree (or the pumpkin seed from the pumpkin.) What nice people.
Zain had a wonderful support system hoping he could pull through his injury and he will always be our USA Olympian. We wish him well whichever path he takes.
Thanks Zain, mom and dad and family.
Zain had a wonderful support system hoping he could pull through his injury and he will always be our USA Olympian. We wish him well whichever path he takes.
Thanks Zain, mom and dad and family.
hard to believe a full cycle of watching him is now over. Interested in more info regarding the pre-olympics concussion
Congrats on all of your accomplishments! Hold your head high and make things happen in life. I know you will.
Expecting to see your kids winning NCAA championships at PSU around 2042-2050. Both boys and girls!
Expecting to see your kids winning NCAA championships at PSU around 2042-2050. Both boys and girls!
First of all, I really feel for Zain. Tough way for this to end after he worked so hard for this opportunity.
But I must be missing something. I saw that Zain withdrew, but no official report that he has retired. All these posts sound so final like his career is over. While that might be well advised based on his concussion/head injury history. I see no story posted anywhere. Please fill me in if I missed the announcement. Thanks!
But I must be missing something. I saw that Zain withdrew, but no official report that he has retired. All these posts sound so final like his career is over. While that might be well advised based on his concussion/head injury history. I see no story posted anywhere. Please fill me in if I missed the announcement. Thanks!
There has been no announcement, but he accepted a Wall Street job and was planning to move the family before he decided to go for the Olympics.
He was allowed to defer that job for Paris. Presumably he'll do that now.
Thanks El-Jefe..........we'll miss him. He was a warrior. Wish he could have wrestled those last matches, but good call. He has a bright future ahead, and has to think of his long term health and his family.
Zain will always be near and dear to me. D4 legend, PA Legend and PSU Legend.
One of the best ass kicking wrestlers we have had the pleasure to watch.
What is most interesting is where these guys are going to land. Zain, Dake, Snyder........ Can't keep them all.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the Sanderson coach tree is going into full bloom, and it's good for wrestling in general.
Such a stud. One of the PSU guys that you can’t help but root for.
IMO the best college level wrestler of the Cael era. Had he been given the opportunity to Redshirt as a true freshman I think he would have never lost a college match.
Thanks for the memories Zain!!
Thanks for the memories Zain!!
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IIRC he's the only wrestler since Cael to have 3 undefeated seasons.
He was a dual meet momentum killer for the other team. We’d be down a few points after some of the lightweights and then Zain would come out and not just tech/pin, but it would be a massacre. A tone setter
On top of all his accolades for wrestling, Zain is also a genuinely good person. One of his greatest moments was when he stopped and handed his headgear to the little boy cheering from the stands after winning his first NCAA title.
It was an absolute pleasure watching him wrestle all these years. I loved the quiet, calm gentleman off the mat and the incredible, savage beast on the mat. I still love that interview when they asked him about the bow and arrow move and, with a wry smile on his face, said something to the effect of, “Oh, it’s a painful move. No doubt.”
Thanks, Zain!!!
Thanks, Zain!!!
Maybe we retired him too soon. Sounds like it's an open question (procedural errors in the article notwithstanding)
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Wrestler and Farmer Zain Retherford Reflects on His Paris Olympic Experience
Zain Retherford's strength and work ethic that he learned growing up on a farm transferred to the wrestling mat, and helped lead him to the 2024 Olympics.
Is the financial firm I thought he was joining going to have an office in State College, or something like that ??
Ill put it out there because his Dad was pretty open with the info. He will be training with NLWC and working at a different firm in State College. Apparently the morals and ethics of the last firm didn't fit with Zain's. On another note, Zain's parents are part of a group that will be opening a new monster sized wrestling club near Benton/Bloomsburg. Apparently a large portion of the near empty Columbia Mall will become a wrestling room. I would imagine that Zain will have a part in that as well.
Zain will toughen them up and teach them how to grind guys into the mat!
I sure did.Maybe we retired him too soon. Sounds like it's an open question (procedural errors in the article notwithstanding)
Wrestler and Farmer Zain Retherford Reflects on His Paris Olympic Experience
Zain Retherford's strength and work ethic that he learned growing up on a farm transferred to the wrestling mat, and helped lead him to the 2024 Olympics.
M2 - we hardly knew ye. I dub this new club B2
Shit - can you imagine a better place to plop a club down than that area? That’s like Dagestan in hunting camo
For those not from the area: Columbia Mall has its own exit on I-80. It's only an hour from Wyoming Seminary and 1:30 from Blair Academy, State College, the Lehigh Valley, and Harrisburg.
It would be hard to find a better location for a wrestling club.
I think Mecca is a pretty good club name!!!
That won't work. Zain's trainees will get off bottom.
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