The Cyclone Regional Training Center kicked off training last Tuesday.
Practices involve giving high school wrestlers the opportunity to train with practices led by the C-RTC’s head coach, Mike Zadick, Iowa State wrestling associate head coach and among current Iowa State wrestlers.
On the C-RTC website you can find their mission statement:
“The Cyclone Regional Training Center is affiliated with USA Wrestling and was founded to support athletes who train in the international styles of wrestling. The center uses the wrestling room at Iowa State University and serves elite-level postgraduate resident athletes, as well as younger wrestlers from high school through college. The center provides a place for athletes to train together and be coached by world-class competitors, including those on our staff who were members of the U.S. Olympic and World Teams.”
Brent Metcalf overseeing practice
Coach Zadick showing the room a couple moves to try when wrestling
First official practice for the C-RTC
Marcus Coleman getting pointers from Coach St. John
Chase Straw and Brady Jennings partner up.
Coach Zadick overseeing practice
Coach St. John giving some pointers to freshmen Ryan Leisure
Kristian Vasquez practicing against Austin Gomez
Coach Zadick helping freshmen Sinjin Briggs and Jakob Allison
Head Coach Mike Zadick teaching the guys some new moves
Freshmen Sinjin Briggs
Redshirt senior Skyler St. John
Austin Gomez and Ian Parker partner up together to practice.
Jacqueline graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in Journalism and Mass Communications. She has been fortunate enough to have interned for Cyclone Fanatic for 2 and a half years before being promoted to stay on. She currently wears a lot of hats at Cyclone Fanatic: Social Media Director, Iowa State Wrestling beat reporter, and staff photographer. Jacqueline loves reading and watching trash reality TV shows when she's not watching sports. One of her favorite accomplishments is having interned for the Minnesota Vikings and during Super Bowl LII.
