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		<title>Caryn Brooks: You Know You&#8217;re A Wrestling Mom (or Dad) When&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2011/12/28/caryn-brooks-you-know-youre-a-wrestling-mom-or-dad-when/</link>
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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>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>
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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>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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		<title>Planning for next year&#8217;s team state wrestling championship</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2011/06/29/planning-for-next-years-team-state-wrestling-championship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of off-season work ethic, Coach Mike Powell is in San Diego with some of the team training with the Vista wrestlers for a week of twice a day wrestling practices. Colin is there and working hard. The Vista wrestlers come to Oak Park in two weeks to train here. 

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		<title>One Wrestling Mom&#8217;s Idea of Fun: Essay by Caryn Brooks</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2011/06/12/one-wrestling-moms-idea-of-fun-essay-by-caryn-brooks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 01:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s Saturday night and I have the rare opportunity to do whatever I want. My three sons are all young adults and elsewhere at this point in their lives. You might think I’d pull out that romance novel I’ve been looking forward to (yes, I know they are trashy, but I love them) or put on a chick flick I haven’t been able to watch.
But no, I have a better guilty pleasure in mind, wrestling. ]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections at Wrestling Season&#8217;s End</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2011/02/27/reflections-at-wrestling-seasons-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An entire week plus has passed since the IHSA finals in Champaign, Illinois where I was proud to be part of the Huskies Wrestling Family and witnessing a lot of parents, coaches, family and friends cheering and inspiring the wrestlers they came to support from all over the state. When my friends and sisters ask me why I spent the weekend in Champiagn when Colin wasn't competing, I can't explain it fully. They just don't understand the concept of the Wrestling Family. Perhaps you do. ]]></description>
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		<title>Coaching &amp; Parenting: Knowing What To Say When and How</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have taught all my boys to read, ride a bicycle, drive a car, heck, even eat with a fork, make a bed or a sandwich, fold clothes and study for tests, plus 10,000 other life skills they need to know to be able to get from Monday to Tuesday and from kindergarten through college. But it is Coach Powell they listen to. He's tough when he needs to be. Kind when it counts. A mother is not a coach and maybe it would be weird if we both delivered the same messages the same way. But we both want the same results. ]]></description>
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