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| Weight | 191 lb (87 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
(1979-06-xx) June twenty, 1979 Common salt Lake City, Utah |
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| High school | Heber Metropolis (UT) Wasatch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Land championships | four (Utah) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College | Iowa Land University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NCAA championships | 13 (4 competing, 9 coaching) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Olympic team | United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Olympic medal | Gold | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Status | Head Coach for Penn State Nittany Lions Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cael Norman Sanderson
(
KAYL
; born June xx, 1979) is an American one-time folkstyle and freestyle wrestler who is the electric current head coach of Penn State University’s wrestling team. As a wrestler, he won an Olympic Gilded medal and was undefeated in four years of college wrestling at Iowa Land University (ISU) (159–0), condign a four-fourth dimension NCAA Sectionalisation I champion (1999–2002). He is the only wrestler in NCAA Segmentation I history to go undefeated in official matches with more than 100 wins.
Sports Illustrated
named his college career equally the second well-nigh impressive college sports feat backside the setting of four globe records by Jesse Owens in a unmarried hour at the 1935 Big Ten rails and field briefing championship meet.[1]
Early life
[edit]
Born in Table salt Lake City, Utah, to Steve and Debbie Sanderson, Cael attended Wasatch High School in Heber Urban center, Utah, where he was coached by his father, a onetime wrestler at the Brigham Young University. As a loftier school wrestler, Sanderson was a four-time UHSAA country champion (1994–97), similar his blood brother Cody, and compiled a record of 127–3.[two]
Wrestling career
[edit]
College
[edit]
Upon graduation, Sanderson followed his brothers, Cody and Cole, to ISU. Later on redshirting in 1997-98, Sanderson won all 39 of his matches to his starting time NCAA and Big 12 Conference titles at 184 pounds (his brother, Cody, was the runner-upward at 133 pounds). He was too the first freshman in NCAA history to be named the Outstanding Wrestler (OW) at Nationals.[3]
His next iii seasons were virtually identical, compiling 40 wins and no losses in each and finishing with the only perfect tape in NCAA Partition I history at 159-0. By winning all of his matches, he became but the second wrestler in history to that point to win four NCAA Division I titles. He was also named the OW in all of the NCAA tournaments he competed in.[iv]
Sanderson was a three-time Dan Hodge Trophy winner (equivalent to the Heisman Trophy), being the beginning to win the award multiple times and the only person to win it iii times.[3]
He holds the longest win-streak beyond all NCAA divisions.[5]
All of this combined, makes him the most achieved collegiate wrestler in the history of the sport.[six]
[7]
In 2017, Sanderson was inducted into the ISU Hall of Fame.[8]
Freestyle
[edit]
Sanderson was a two-time United states Cadet Earth Team Member, placing tertiary and fourth in 1994 and 1995, respectively.[ix]
He was also a US University National Champion in 1999 and a Academy World Champion in 2000.[x]
He became the US National Champion in 2001, 2002 and 2003.[11]
He was besides an original US Globe Squad Member in 2001 and 2002, however, he chose non to participate at the 01′ World Championships to focus in folkstyle,[12]
and the U.s. team chose to not compete in 2002.[thirteen]
In 2003, he won the Manitoba Open in Canada in February,[14]
placed second at the Earth Loving cup in April, tertiary at the 2003 Pan American Games[15]
and 2d at the Globe Championships.[16]
In 2004, he once again claimed the Manitoba Open up title[14]
and won the US Olympic Team Trials.[17]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Sanderson claimed wins over Magomed Kurugliyev, Siarhei Borchanka, Majid Khodaei, Yoel Romero and Moon Eui-jae to get an Olympic Gold medalist in Athens, Greece.[18]
While already a full-time autobus at Penn State, Sanderson came out of retirement in 2011[19]
and took home an Ion Corneanu Memorial title,[xx]
won the US World Team Trials[21]
and placed fifth at the World Championships.[22]
Freestyle tape
[edit]
NCAA record
[edit]
[23]
[24]
[25]
[26]
Coaching career
[edit]
Iowa State
[edit]
Sanderson began his coaching career with the flavour ending in 2004 every bit a special assistant for the wrestling squad at ISU. Later on short stints in associate head coaching positions, he became the caput coach for the flavor ending in 2007. In iii seasons, Sanderson led ISU’due south wrestling squad to NCAA Division I national placements of 2nd, fifth, and tertiary.[27]
He also coached his wrestlers to two individual NCAA Division I national titles.
Penn Land
[edit]
Before the 2010 season concluded, Sanderson became the caput autobus of Penn Land’s wrestling team. As of 2022, Sanderson’s Penn State teams take won nine NCAA Sectionalization I team titles.[28]
During that time, he also coached his wrestlers to 32 individual NCAA Partition I titles.
Coaching results
[edit]
Awards and honors
[edit]
- 2011
-
Ion Corneanu Memorial
- 2004
- 2003
- 2002
- 2001
- 2000
- 1999
Other honors
[edit]
- Iowa Sports Hall of Fame inductee[31]
- Wheaties cereal box appearance
See also
[edit]
- List of Pennsylvania State Academy Olympians
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External links
[edit]
- Cael Sanderson at United World Wrestling
- Cael Sanderson Official Site (caelsanderson.com)
- Cael Sanderson Penn Country Bio (gopsusports.com)
- Cael Sanderson Wrestling Technique (thewrestlingtalk.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived February xx, 2011)
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cael_Sanderson
