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	<title>Wrestling Mom: By Michele Weldon &#187; Oak Park-River Forest High School</title>
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		<title>Regional Champs are 14 for 14 &amp; Why The World Will Soon Love Our Man In Full, Coach Powell</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The team's amazing first-time ever in OPRFHS history feat of advancing 14 of 14 wrestlers on the roster to regionals in hopes of sweeping at state was a nerve-wracking blast to witness. 
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		<title>10 Life Lessons I Learned Watching Wrestling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's Friday night and I am in a Coralville, Iowa hotel room, a little weary from the four-hour drive from Chicago west on 88 and then even west-er on 80, past texting truck drivers and horizontal snow winds, miles of empty ice-dusted fields and about 1,000 signs for Subway. I just finished putting six turkey, cheese and spinach sandwiches I made this morning and about a gallon of Vitamin Water in the small humming refrigerator for Colin to eat tomorrow after the weigh-ins for the Iowa City West quad against Apple Valley and Marmion.]]></description>
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		<title>Caryn Brooks: You Know You&#8217;re A Wrestling Mom (or Dad) When&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know you're a wrestling parent when: Beyonce sings about all the “single ladies” and you hear “all the single legs” and wonder why Beyonce has a song out about wrestling?...The smell of wrestling shoes brings back memories of matches rather than makes you sick to your stomach (ok, it might make you sick to your stomach as well)...You know more about rashes than your doctor.]]></description>
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		<title>Nowhere else I&#8217;d rather be: Gearing up for Colin&#8217;s final high school wrestling season</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the stands every wrestling season since 2004 I have had plenty of anxiety attacks about what work I needed to do once I got home, what I needed to get accomplished for the house or for life, how to keep all the pins juggling in the air. But it was always worth it to go, spend most of the day in a gym wearing the orange and the blue just to see what splendor my sons could create. And it was splendid, even if the gym smelled bad and the other parents were sometimes hostile and some kids cried when they lost. 
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		<title>Caryn Brooks: What I Wish I Knew About Recruiting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caryn Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coaches know what a 17 or 18-year-old wrestler cares about. They play to hopes and dreams of championships and gold medals. On one official visit the coaches were sure to take a route that passed the outdoor pool with hot tubs and a waterfall at the rec center. It was an especially warm weekend at the end of August and plenty of young women were working on their tans while wearing very little.  
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		<title>Caryn Brooks: Sam Brooks wins bronze; Mom almost misses it!</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2011/08/31/caryn-brooks-sam-brooks-wins-bronze-mom-almost-misses-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing could be worse than sitting in the stands all day or even just an evening only to miss your son or daughter’s six minutes, right? Well I have discovered what could be worse – traveling overseas to watch your son wrestle and missing it!
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		<title>World champ Lee Kemp: U.S.A. wrestlers &#8220;represent the whole country&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a fundraiser held in a bar near Midway Airport recently, wrestling moms, dads, aunts, friends and a three-time world champion shared pizza, meatballs and world-class encouragement from three-time world champion Lee Kemp for a quad squad of Illinois wrestlers headed to Szombathley, Hungary this week to compete in the World Championships. All of it to help four Illinois wrestlers;  Matt Rundell, Darius Henry, Sammy Brooks and Zane Richards, with the costs of the overseas trip.  
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		<title>Caryn Brooks: Party With a Purpose, Support the Amazing Sam Brooks &amp; Teammates</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2011/08/04/caryn-brooks-party-with-a-purpose-support-the-amazing-sam-brooks-teammates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now our state is sending four wrestlers to be part of U.S. team that will take on the world. Those wrestlers will compete in the 2011 FILA Cadet World Championships in Szombathely, Hungary August 23-29. To help defray that you are invited to the Illinois’ World Championship Party! on 8/13, 6-10 p.m., a benefit to raise money for Illinois wrestlers competing in Hungary. 

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		<title>We always knew Ellis was destined to be great</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us who are members of the Huskies Wrestling Family have been watching Ellis Coleman for years, since he was an eighth grader member of the Little Huskies. And here he is, a 2009 graduate of Oak Park-River Forest High School, this week making this crazy flying squirrel Ellis move that landed him on the home page of Yahoo, ESPN and so many sites.
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		<title>Guest Essay by Caryn Brooks: &#8220;You deserve it&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2011/07/10/guest-essay-by-caryn-brooks-you-deserve-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As wrestling parents we all make hard choices. My children, especially Sam, have been given amazing opportunities because of wrestling. I would like to be there as they take advantage of those things, but it’s not always possible. ]]></description>
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