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		<title>Mother&#8217;s Day Thoughts for Single Moms, Wrestling Moms and All Moms</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2010/05/07/mothers-day-thoughts-for-single-moms-wrestling-moms-and-all-moms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 17:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your children can make you cry, they just can, whether they mean to or not, and sometimes they really mean to. Teenagers can be particularly harsh; I have a friend who says sometimes teenagers are just not good people. 
I have two teenagers at 16 and 19 and a post-teenager at 21. But any therapist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Coming Back and What Integrity Means</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OPRFHS 2009 graduate Jake Venerable talks about what Coach Mike  Powell means to him and why he came back to the varsity wrestling team after leaving for a year. And why this group of teammates who shared "blood, sweat and tears" will be his friends for life.  ]]></description>
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		<title>OPRFH Wrestler Brock Friesen on Being Part of a Winning Brotherhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brock Friesen graduates in June after four years on the OPRFHS wrestling team. He talks about learning from a coach --Mike Powell-- who is more than just talk. ]]></description>
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		<title>On Olympic Dreams, Wrestling Families and Coach Powell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In March 2010 Ellis Coleman, a 2009 OPRFHS graduate, won a bronze medal at the Junior International in Bulgaria as part of the USA National Greco-Roman team. The three-time Illinois state medalist talks in this interview about the impact Coach Powell has had on his life, this sport and his wrestling family. ]]></description>
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		<title>On Procedures, Disappointment, Perspective and Cake</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2010/02/28/on-procedures-disappointment-perspective-and-cake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The team's athletic trainer called me at work about 3:30. I needed to get Colin to the emergency room as fast as possible. On the Tuesday after regionals, what was initially thought to be a shin bruise, was now a dark purple, hot, swelling, gross mass, the size of a mango, or a small eggplant.]]></description>
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		<title>A Former Wrestler Becomes Big Fan</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2010/02/12/a-former-wrestler-becomes-big-fan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coach Powell teaches you about personal growth
and how to accept the challenges of life. Kudos to the Huskies and to
their solid season.
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		<title>2009 OPRF Wrestler Brendan Rogers on Coach Powell, Injury and The Team Medal</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2010/01/18/2009-oprf-wrestler-brendan-rogers-on-coach-powell-injury-and-the-team-medal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brendan Rogers, an OPRF Wrestler 2004-2009, talks about the impact Coach Powell had on his life, especially the moment Powell gave Brendan the team state medal; Brendan was unable to wrestle team state because of a knee injury. ]]></description>
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		<title>2007 Wrestling Alum Weldon Rogers on Coach Powell, The Ear and What Wrestling Means</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2010/01/12/2007-alum-weldon-rogers-on-coach-powell-the-ear-and-what-wrestling-means/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He's proud of his wrestling career in high school and briefly in college. He's also proud of the "ear" he earned. Weldon Rogers talks about Coach Powell and his own transformation as an athlete and a young man. Now a college junior, Weldon claims he went from being "garbage" as a youth wrestler to placing fourth in Illinois in 2007 at the IHSA Class AA individual state tournament for 140 pounds. ]]></description>
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		<title>Brother, brother, brother</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we sat and watched, cheered, screamed for every Oak Park-River Forest wrestler and passed the time, ate the sandwiches we packed; I  drank the Diet Coke, Brendan drank the Gatorade. Colin drank a lot of Gatorade. (This will become important later.) 

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		<title>OPRFHS Wrestler Colin Rogers on Training, Coach Powell, Winning and Losing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My youngest son, Colin, talks about the importance of Coach Powell as a father figure in his life,the hard work of wrestling and the thrill of winning. ]]></description>
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