Dave Schultz by Jesse Mendez
The historical figure I am presenting is Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz. Dave was born on June 6, 1959 in Palo Alto, California to mother Dorsey and father Philip. When Dave was five he tried wrestling for the first time and hated it, and quit three weeks into it. As he got older around the age of nine to thirteen he started to put on a lot of weight and became overweight. Since he was an overweight kid in middle school kids had no mercy on him and often bullied him and he ended up getting the nickname Pudge.He also had Dyslexia which made it worse for him and gave the kids another thing to bully him with. When he was in middle school he was approached by the wrestling schools wrestling coach asking if he would like to join the wrestling team because they needed a wrestler who was big to fill there 170 weight class. He joined the team because that was one of few sports that he would not be made fun of for his weight and he felt like he fit in and accepted. That is when we really hit it off with the sport of wrestling and began to train hard to become a better wrestler.
When Dave was a senior in high school he competed at Great Plains freestyle tournament and took first place which qualified him …show more content…
He served as an assistant coach at University of Oklahoma and Stanford University. In 1996 he quit being assistant coach and started working and training for John Eleuthère du Ponts for his team Team Foxcatcher which the team trained at a giant facility at the Ponts family farm in Newtown Square Pennsylvania. While he was at Foxcatcher, he trained Kurt Angle who would go on to win a Gold Olympic medal in 1996 and who would than later on became a professional wrestler in the WWE and who still performs WWE to this day. The 1996 Olympic team had everything they needed top of the line training and training room, a super successful team leader it all went away after Dave was
The historical figure I am presenting is Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz. Dave was born on June 6, 1959 in Palo Alto, California to mother Dorsey and father Philip. When Dave was five he tried wrestling for the first time and hated it, and quit three weeks into it. As he got older around the age of nine to thirteen he started to put on a lot of weight and became overweight. Since he was an overweight kid in middle school kids had no mercy on him and often bullied him and he ended up getting the nickname Pudge.He also had Dyslexia which made it worse for him and gave the kids another thing to bully him with. When he was in middle school he was approached by the wrestling schools wrestling coach asking if he would like to join the wrestling team because they needed a wrestler who was big to fill there 170 weight class. He joined the team because that was one of few sports that he would not be made fun of for his weight and he felt like he fit in and accepted. That is when we really hit it off with the sport of wrestling and began to train hard to become a better wrestler.
When Dave was a senior in high school he competed at Great Plains freestyle tournament and took first place which qualified him …show more content…
He served as an assistant coach at University of Oklahoma and Stanford University. In 1996 he quit being assistant coach and started working and training for John Eleuthère du Ponts for his team Team Foxcatcher which the team trained at a giant facility at the Ponts family farm in Newtown Square Pennsylvania. While he was at Foxcatcher, he trained Kurt Angle who would go on to win a Gold Olympic medal in 1996 and who would than later on became a professional wrestler in the WWE and who still performs WWE to this day. The 1996 Olympic team had everything they needed top of the line training and training room, a super successful team leader it all went away after Dave was