Slowly but Surely with the Knee, Rugters Thoughts and Fishing

The knee has been feeling better and better everyday and taking it slow might be the best medicine for it. I wrestled live for the first time since the trails the other day and it felt ok. I find myself a little weary in some situations and give up the position instead of risking hurting it again. It's getting stronger and more stable but definitely not 100 %. It should be ready to go by the next National Team camp in COS.

On a couple other notes, WOW!!!! This Rutgers situation is finally coming to a close and my boy Goodale will be taking over the helm. I think a huge congratulations is in order. I honestly think he is the perfect man for the job. He is a people person and no one knows NJ like him. Must I add his coaching accomplishments. I would have to say he is the best public HS coach in the state. The only thing thats gonna change now is he's on a bigger stage. He will start to build that program right away. The biggest thing that will help this program rise to the top is Alumni and fan support. Thats one thing here at Cornell we're blessed with and Rob and our coaching staff work very hard to keep it that way. With Jersey being one of the greatest wrestling states, when it comes to wrestlers and fans. Get behind Goodale and help him build that program.

The fishing has been going great. I've had the pleasure of having my sister in town, so any free time I've had I've been taking her fishing. We've went a couple of times in the past week. Some in the streams and the other day out on the lake with one of my wrestlers. She actually did ok in the streams. She caught a couple of smallies but blanked out on the BIG lake. Bummer for her, but me on the other hand landed a monster. 20 1/2", 4 lb. Large mouth. I know for some this is not big, but for me, mostly fishing in streams and the occasional lakes in MN for Walleye and Northern. This is the biggest bass I've ever caught. So let me brag a little. I'll have some pics up on the site for who ever wants to take a look. Enjoy and we'll meet again.

Been A While

This is our last week of camps up here in Ithaca. I'm actually happy that camps are almost finished. I've been on the mats showing technique and things have been going well. My knee has been holding up when showing moves. I have been able to get on the mats a couple of time to drill with Arnone and Taylor Moore. Unfortunately the last drill I had with Taylor I tweeked my knee a little. Due to that, I haven't got back on the mats to drill again. Hopefully I'll be able to get back on the mats this week to work on my technique.

On another note, I've been doing some fishing up here in the Finger Lakes. The other night I went out with one of my wrestlers and his father and we all hooked into some pretty nice large mouth bass. I have to admit I did catch the smallest and least fish out of the bunch. Thats okay though, we still had a fun. I went out yesterday in one of the streams that run though Ithaca into lake Cayuga and killed the small mouth bass. I fished for about 4 hours and walked a little over a mile of the stream. Didn't catch to many big ones but I caught close to 50 smallies. I did catch one that was around 1 1/2 lbs. and was one hell of fight. It took me nearly 10 minutes to bring him in using a 4 and half foot ultra light rod with 4 lb. test. I know I keep saying I'm going to put pictures up, so if you want to see some of the fish go to my Multimedia page and check them out. Talk to you soon.

Results are in

We have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that the doc doesn't think that I tore my ACL. The bad news is that I tore my MCL and the doc wants me to stay off the mats for the next 6 weeks. I'm going back on Monday to get the MRI. I'm getting the MRI to check on my medial meniscus. He's wants to make sure that I didn't tear that. So basically it wasn't that bad of a trip. Maybe I can get some pics to post for everyone to see.