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PHOTO CAPTION: U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program wrestler Pfc. Jeremiah Davis applies a lock on WCAP teammate Staff Sgt. Glenn Garrison in the first match of their best-of-three finale in the Greco-Roman 132-pound division of the 2009 USA Wrestling World Team Trials May 31 at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Davis will compete for Team USA in the World Championships, scheduled for Sept. 21-27 in Herning, Denmark.
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Four Soldiers make Team USA for 2009 World Wrestling Championships 090603

By Tim Hipps
FMWRC Public Affairs

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa – The U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program put an unprecedented three Greco-Roman wrestlers and a coach on Team USA for the 2009 World Wrestling Championships.

Staff Sgt. Dremiel Byers, Spc. Faruk Sahin and Pfc. Jeremiah Davis won their respective weight classes in the 2009 USA Wrestling World Team Trials at the Mid-America Center on May 30-31. WCAP coach Staff Sgt. Shon Lewis, along with Minnesota Storm coach Dan Chandler, will lead them to Herning, Denmark, for the World Championships, scheduled for Sept. 21-27.

Although two of the Army’s reining national champions – Sgt. Brad Ahearn and Spc. Jermaine Hodge – lost during the first round of the challenge tournament, five other Soldiers muscled up and reached the finals of the World Team Trials.

“That’s encouraging to me,” Lewis said. “Between Las Vegas [site of the U.S. National Championships] and here, we had a total of seven different guys in the finals. That’s going to make me work even harder because now I know I have seven guys who can get it done.”

Byers ended the Soldiers’ rough first day of the tournament on a high note by earning his sixth berth in the World Championships with a two-match victory over New York Athletic Club’s Brandon Rupp of Pocatello, Idaho, in their best-of-three championship series at 264.5 pounds.

“I definitely wanted to get it done; I just wish I could’ve done it with more flair,” said Byers, who won both matches in two straight periods by scores of 2-0, 1-0 and 1-0, 2-0. “When the boss (Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Commander Col. Brick Miller) is in the house, you want to do more. I just knew after that weight cut to keep it simple and basic and it would all work out, so that’s the way I played it.”

Byers, a 2002 world champion and 2008 Olympian, had to regain energy after cutting seven kilograms overnight to make weight, but said he could “fake getting tired until I’m dead” while on the mat.

“They told me my whole life if I could just do something with my stomach I would look real good,” Byers quipped. “I’ve convinced myself that a line down the middle is better than a six-pack. So a two-pack will do it.

“I had to get off six or seven kilos yesterday. Things like that shouldn’t happen to a guy who calls himself a vet, but even if it’s horrible, there’s a lesson to be learned. I know that I can get it off if I ever need to get it off again. I was fortunate to have good coaches there to make me do it, and remind me that people are counting on me to get it done, and why we’re doing this.”

Lewis said earlier in the day that he “would still bet the farm” on Byers pulling through.

“He had a lack of focus and let his weight get a little bit too high and he was struggling,” Lewis said. “The blessing in disguise was that he’s a previous world medalist so he was able to sit out until 6 o’clock that evening, so he was able to recover.”

“I’m getting older and it’s getting harder, but I know I can still get it done,” said Byers, 34, of Kings Mountain, N.C. “I’ve got to stick around until the next Olympic Games, of course. I feel like I can win that one. I really want it. There’s a lot of fight left in me.”

Byers said the support he receives is unmatched in the world of Olympic-style wrestling.

“My teammates aren’t just teammates,” he said. “Those are my brothers and sisters in arms. We’re a family, and everything we do is to push and motivate each other. I know those guys are behind me, and they needed me to get this done.”

Davis inspired the Soldiers’ rally on Sunday with a semifinal victory over reining national champion and former U.S. World Team member Joe Betterman, the top-seeded wrestler in the tournament at 132 pounds. After defeating WCAP teammate Spc. Marco Lara in the first round, Davis prevailed 3-2, 0-5, 1-0 over Betterman.

“We knew that was doable,” Lewis said. “We were elated, but we weren’t surprised.”

On the other side of the 132-pound bracket, Staff Sgt. Glenn Garrison prevailed 0-1, 1-0, 3-0 over Pfc. Nathan Piasecki to set up an All-Army finale.

Davis managed to throw Garrison and won the division in two straight matches.

“He had a little more on Garrison than Garrison had on him, and he had a game plan,” Lewis said. “It showed in the finals.

“We didn’t see 100 percent of Jeremiah [Davis]. In his semifinal match, he wrestled at probably 70 percent of his ability, and in the finals he was about 75 percent. He has another 25 percent that he can produce and we’re going to be working hard to get that coming into the World Championships.”

Lewis praised Garrison, 35, a three-time U.S. World Team Trials runner-up.

“What’s really great about Garrison is that he’s a real team player,” Lewis said. “Everybody in that weight class – Nathan Piasecki, Marco Lara, Jeremiah Davis, Mark Bradley – he’s spending time with them and helping them try to get better while he’s trying to improve. He might not think so, but he has to take a share of that victory for Jeremiah Davis because he’s worked with Jeremiah and helped him over and over and over.

“But that’s what we do because we really are a family. Garrison understands that he’s coming close to the end – this is his last quad – and after he’s finished, Jeremiah and all those other guys are the ones we’re going to be pushing to get things done.

“One day, Jeremiah will be the guy teaching all the young guys his stuff.”

WCAP provided five of the nine wrestlers in that weight class.

“It’s beautiful because iron sharpens iron,” Lewis said of the luxury of having five Soldiers in the Greco-Roman 60-kilogram division of the World Team Trials. “I just blow the whistle and get out of the way because they are like pit bulls off the leash.”

Ditto for Spc. Faruk Sahin, who manhandled Gator Wrestling Club’s Mark Rial in two straight periods to win the crown at 145.5 pounds.

“Nobody can beat me, is that good enough?” said Sahin, 33, a former member of the Turkish Junior National Team who became a U.S. citizen in 2004. “Now I have to go back home, kiss the wife and baby, and start practicing right away because I don’t have very much time to get ready. I don’t want to talk too much about it. Main thing: stop talking, start working.”

Lewis agrees that Sahin has much work to do, but he also realizes that Sahin is on a roll.

“This is probably the most sound I have seen Faruk wrestle from start to finish,” Lewis said. “Usually, in these tournaments, he has some type of lapse. He did pretty well in Vegas, too, so he’s had back-to-back tournaments where he’s been sound. That’s encouraging, but we still have a lot of work to do before we get to Denmark for the World Championships.”

Staff Sgt. Jess Hargrave, who never had placed higher than fourth in the U.S. Nationals or World Team Trials, made it to the finals before losing to two-time world bronze medalist Harry Lester of New York Athletic Club in the 163-pound class.

“Hargrave came out of nowhere,” Lewis said. “He must have read that article that recorded me as saying he didn’t have a shot at 74 kilos [at nationals]. He proved me wrong and the rest of my staff wrong.

“In the first match, he had two-time world bronze medalist Harry Lester on his back and we thought he was pinned, but of course I guess when you have two world medals they don’t call them as fast.

“That was huge for his confidence. He beat two guys who have consistently been second and third, and he beat them back-to-back. And being right there in the match with Harry Lester in the finals, that’s going to do wonders for us and him in the years to come.”

The winning Soldiers’ next mission is to mount the podium in Denmark to see the Stars and Stripes raised and hear Byers’ favorite song played: “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

“Go back over there and get a medal, and keep winning,” Byers said. “Keep winning for the Army. I say it all the time: I’m fortunate to be a part of the World Class Athlete Program. There are people out there doing this same job – the same MOS: 92 Yankee – and these guys are in Iraq and Afghanistan. The least I can do is win for them. They’re watching, and I hear from them. It’s important. It’s important.”

“The Black and Gold Army wrestling team is bigger than just wrestling,” Lewis said. “We talk about everybody carrying their own ruck, and the guys have bought into that. These guys are doing a good job of getting the Army name out there and putting them on the map when it comes to the sport of wrestling.

“I’ll take this as a good moment, but I’m hoping that my proudest moment of ’09 will be in Denmark, over some imported beer, drinking and laughing and telling stories through the night when we get a couple medals from the World Championships.”

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Photo Caption: U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program boxer Spc. Jeffrey Spencer wins the gold medal in the light heavyweight division of the 2010 U.S. National Boxing Championships on July 17 with a 10-9 victory over Robert Brant of Oakdale, Minn., at the Crowne Plaza Ballroom in Colorado Springs, Colo. Photo by Tim Hipps, FMWRC Public Affairs

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Three Army boxers win medals; Spencer wins light heavyweight title at U.S. National Boxing Championships

By Tim Hipps
FMWRC Public Affairs

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program boxer Spc. Jeffrey Spencer won a gold medal and teammates Sgt. John Franklin and Spc. Carrie Barry struck bronze at the 2010 U.S. National Boxing Championships on July 12-17.

The Saturday night finals inside the ballroom of the Crown Plaza Hotel opened with a 10-count salute to the late George Steinbrenner, who died earlier in the week, for his support of the U.S. Olympic Committee and Team USA athletes. The mood quickly turned upbeat as Outkast’s “Hey Ya” blared through the speakers, signaling that America’s best amateur boxers were ready to rumble.

Four hours later, Army supporters from nearby Fort Carson had reason to celebrate.

“It’s been a while since we’ve had a national champ so it’s a good feeling again, that’s for sure,” WCAP head boxing coach Basheer Abdullah said. “We should have placed one, two and three.”

Spencer, 28, dedicated his 10-9 victory over Robert Brant in the light middleweight finale to his late grandfather, a former Marine Corps boxer and youth boxing coach who died of a sudden heart attack last New Year’s Day. Spencer was visiting his mother in Texas for the holidays when his grandfather dropped to the floor.

“My mother called 911 and I was trying to do CPR on him and revive him,” Spencer said. “My grandfather was the whole reason I started boxing. That was his dream, for me to become a champion. If he was here, he would say he’s proud of me – and keep my hands up.”

An avid basketball player, Spencer began boxing at age 18 when someone saw him win a brawl at Atterbury (Ind.) Job Corps Center and suggested that he climb between the ropes.

“When I went back home to Gary, Indiana, I told my grandfather, ‘I want to box now.’ And he said, ‘Alright, we’re going to take you to the gym and we’ll see how you do,’” Spencer said. “When he saw what I could do, he said I had a natural talent for it, and I went from there. I’ve been boxing ever since. Everything I do now is for him and God. It was his dream for me to be a national champion and an Olympian, and I’m going for that. Anything that gets in my way, I’m barreling over it.

“This means everything to me because I’ve worked so hard – grinding blood, sweat and tears in the gym – and this is my reward. This is the fun time. This is what we work for. This is what we share blood for – what I get beat up and down in the gym for right here. We’re an Army of One, baby. I’m going to go out fighting until I die.”

After winning a couple of brawls in his first two bouts on Monday and Wednesday, Spencer relied on his “quick hands and slickness” for the rest of the tournament.

“My speed is my biggest gift,” he said. “Speed first and power second.”

Spencer came from Fort Hood, Texas, to join the Army’s elite boxers in the World Class Athlete Program at Fort Carson. Andrew Maynard, a former Army boxer who won the light heavyweight Olympic gold medal at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea, climbed into the ring to hang the hardware around Spencer’s neck.

Franklin, 26, won the bronze medal when the referee stopped his lightweight contest against power puncher Adam Lopez of San Antonio. Franklin broke a 10-10 tie by dropping Lopez with a straight right hand in the third round.

“I thought I went up one [point] or maybe I tied it up,” Franklin said. “He caught me with a hook and I came back up and tried to go to the body with a straight right hand and ‘bam.’ All I know is he caught me first with a hook, and I was like, ‘Aw, he just got a point.’ So I just came back as hard as I could with the right hand and it connected right on the chin and put him down.”

“I love my hook so much. I’m strong in both hands, but I get hook happy and me and coach talk about that all the time. … This time, I switched it up and came right back with the right hand. Coach has been telling me it’s open all week and I did it this time. It was open, and it worked.”

True knockouts are rare in the 114-kilogram amateur ranks. Franklin can recall posting only seven KOs in his 108 bouts, 89 of which he won.

“You don’t see too many knockouts in that weight class unless it’s Rau’shee Warren,” Abdullah said of the four-time national champion who is attempting to become the first three-time Olympic boxer in U.S. history.

In the semifinals one day earlier, Franklin was leading by two points when he got stopped by a strong right overhand from Miguel Cartagena, the 2009 national light flyweight champion from Philadelphia. Franklin was floored by the punch and quickly bounced to his feet, but his legs were wobbly and the referee stopped the contest, much to the dismay of Franklin, Abdullah and an Army partisan crowd at the U.S. Olympic Training Center.

“That was a heartbreaker,” Abdullah said.

“He didn’t hurt me the whole fight,” Franklin said. “I was dominating him. I didn’t even see the punch. He hit me on the top of the head, right above the headgear, and that was the only punch I felt from him all night.”

Franklin thought the referee should have stopped the fight when he staggered to his feet, if at all – but not after he jumped up and down and said he was ready to resume boxing.

“You’ve got to let the elite guys go with what they know,” Franklin said. “If this was the first day of the tournament, I could definitely understand, but we’re going for the gold medal – you’ve got to let it go sometimes.”

One day later, Franklin regrouped and fought for third place.

“I’ve been bitter all day and trying to get my mind right for this fight,” he said after securing the bronze. “Right before I went into the ring, a referee came up to me and said he was sorry about what happened last night. He said he didn’t believe that it should have been stopped, that he thought I was showing that I was OK, but everybody has their perception of how it looked.”

From this corner, it was one of the most stunning calls in sports history.

“I had to wake up this morning and shake weight because I was still overweight a little bit, and coach told me we were going to run to shake weight and then we were going to make them pay,” Franklin said. “All I could think about was every time I threw that right hand, through the whole bout, was I just wanted to make him feel it every time – every right hand. This makes me feel a lot better to come back from that and get a knockout. It’s a beautiful thing.

“I wasn’t even going to fight today,” Franklin continued. “A lot of other boxers were telling me they wouldn’t do it if they were me. They felt like it would be too hard to come back from something like that, but I felt like if I was a pro and I got knocked out, that’s exactly how I would want to come back and avenge myself. It was definitely well worth it.”

Barry, 29, holder of nine national crowns, had all but retired from the ring and was taking up the triathlon when it was announced that women’s boxing would debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. After taking a one-year hiatus from the ring, she returned in Colorado Springs and lost 16-9 to eventual national champ Queen Underwood of Seattle in the 132-kilogram semifinals.

“After a year off and having limited time to train for this competition, I was really happy with my performance this week,” Barry said. “All of the rounds I felt really good. She caught me with a nice clean shot in that first round and I was able to recover. I caught her with some good shots. In the end, she got me with more than I got her.”

Barry already has captained U.S. national teams in numerous international competitions. She joined the Army to pursue her Olympic dream.

“I was ready to start coaching,” she said. “Flip around and give back to the sport that’s given me so much. The moment I found out about the Olympics, the first person I called was coach Abdullah. … Coming into the military was a big choice. … Now I’ve just got that one last goal of being an Olympian.”

3 WCAP boxers medal at U.S. National Championships – FMWRC – United States Army – 100719
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Photo Caption: U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program boxer Spc. Carrie Barry wins the bronze medal in the women’s lightweight division of the 2010 U.S. National Boxing Championships at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Photo by Tim Hipps, FMWRC Public Affairs