The Bader Show

Olympic bronze medalist Kennedy Blades joins the show to talk about her impressive performance out in Paris as well as her move to compete for the Iowa Hawkeyes. 0:01 - First Olympic memory 0:03 - Adeline Gray 2023 0:06 - Transferring To Iowa 0:11 - 2024 Olympic Trials vs Adeline 0:14 - Nerves can take away all the hard work 0:15 - U23 Worlds injury got in her head 0:23 - Gold medal match 0:29 - M...

Northern Iowa All-American Ryan Loder just won The Ultimate Fighter reality show and joins Bader to talk about his experience with it along with some memories of Doug Schwab and West Gym. 0:01 - Doug Schwab 0:04 - West Gym 0:07 - MMA interest from COVID 0:16 - Training and evolving in MMA 0:23 - Taking a loss 0:25 - The Ultimate Fighter 0:49 - Wins and whoopins 0:52 - The final word Learn more abo...

Donny Pritzlaff was named head coach of Columbia University and joins the show to talk about his college rivalry with Joe Heskett, his past coaching career and what is ahead for him and the Columbia University wrestling team. 0:02 - Joe Heskett 0:05 - Andrew Howe 0:07 - Howe vs Burroughs 0:14 - Thought he would be Wisconsin head coach 0:16 - Michigan vs Rutgers 0:20 - Head coach, finally 0:24 - Le...

Northern Iowa assistant coach and wrestling junkie Lee Roper joins the show to talk about all things from the 2024 Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The new Oklahoma State recruiting coordinator joins the show to talk about his time at Penn State under Cael Sanderson, coaching experience and new role with David Taylor at Oklahoma State. 0:01 - Arriving in Stillwater 0:02 - Wrestling at Penn State 0:04 - Coaching gap at PSU 0:06 - Cael taking over at Penn State 0:14 - Cael agreed to wrestle at Worlds 2011 0:26 - The Penn State Dynasty 0:27 - Co...

Joe Rau competed in his third straight Olympic Trials finals, winning in three matches over Alan Vera and earning his first trip to compete in the Olympic Games. 0:01 - getting hooked 0:05 - first world team 0:06 - 2016 olympic trials champion, no olympics 0:10 - just want to go to olympics 0:14 - Pan Ams and COVID momentum stopped 0:16 - 2021 controversy and retiring 0:19 - Lying to myself about...

The 4x B1G Champion and 4x All-American from Iowa joins the show after announcing his retirement from the sport. 0:01 - Retirement 0:04 - Physical and mental toll 0:06 - Two torn ACLs 0:09 - 2020 & COVID 0:12 - Reflecting on his career 0:16 - The BULL 0:18 - Coaching and a different perspective on the sport 0:22 - Wrestling defining and not defining him 0:27 - Coaching the youth 0:32 - David Taylo...

J'den Cox had an illustrious career winning three NCAA titles and two World titles. He announced his retirement at the 2024 Olympic Trials and joins us to talk through his incredible journey through the sport of wrestling. 0:03 - Fall in love with wrestling first 0:05 - Retiring 0:12 - Dreaming big 0:19 - Mike Eierman 0:22 - Moments he will miss the most 0:25 - Who did he like wrestling? 0:28 - 20...

NCAA Champion Richie Figueroa joins the show to talk about his up and down season, catching fire at the end and how he gets himself into the zone. 0:01 - Wanting to be an NCAA Champion 0:04 - The Courtney Courtney  0:06 - Selma 0:09 - Ups and downs of the year 0:12 - Almost quit 0:14 - Confidence through the roof 0:18 - Don’t take it too seriously 0:20 - NCAA Finals match 0:23 - Finding the zone 0...

Adaugo Nwachukwu won the 2023-2024 USA Wrestling Women's College Wrestler of the Year award. She was the national champion at 136 and went 21-0 with six pins and 15 tech falls for William Penn University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iowa Hawkeye 3x NCAA Champion Spencer Lee joins the show to talk about his FloWrestling film Spencer & Austin: Wrestletown, USA. 0:01 - Wrestletown, USA 0:03 - Austin’s always been aggressive 0:09 - Wrestling w no ACLs 0:13 - Learning about yourself 0:17 - Post match interviews 0:23 - Austin showed up after his NCAA loss 0:29 - Last time he was this healthy? 0:35 - NCAA’s and being a celebrity 0:3...

Ava recently won her NCWWC regional and will wrestle in the National Championships next week, 0:01 - Following her brothers into wrestling 0:03 - Teacher told her girls don't wrestle 0:07 - Watching women wrestle in the Olympics 0:09 - Going to Wyoming Seminary 0:13 - Preparing for college 0:16 - The Iowa vision 0:18 - Developing a culture 0:21 - National Championships and North Central 0:24 - Ava...

NC State associate head coach Adam Hall has been announced as the head coach at Utah Valley University starting one day after the NCAA Championships. 0:04 - Why coaching? 0:07 - USAW internship grassroot RTCs 0:11 - Coaching at Columbia 0:13 - Wanting to be a head coach 0:15 - NC State producing head coaches 0:21 - NC State memories 0:24 - Read the person read the room 0:26 - Growing the fanbase,...

Little Rock head coach Neil Erisman is having a break through season with his program in their fifth year of existence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sergio was a 4x high school state champion and wrestles at Michigan. Last week he upset and majored #1 ranked Real Woods of Iowa 14-2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vito Arujau joins the show on the same day his film, VITO: Out Of The Shadows debuts. We also talk about Vito's return to NCAA wrestling including his loss to Crookham and his quest for the Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

USA Wrestling coaches Bill Zadick, Zack Esposito and Joe Russell join the show with updates on USA Wrestling and College wrestling talk. 0:01 - Esposito is in France! 0:05 - Bill on resident program back then 0:13 - Travel issues 0:16 - Olympic year 0:21 - DT JB, KD 0:24 - VITO 0:29 - College wrestling 0:31 - Dual meets 0:43 - Covid opened some eyes  0:45 - Get the weights qualified Learn more abo...

Doug Schwab wouldn't take no for an answer when Utah Valley said they had to cancel their dual due to weather. 0:01 - Won’t take no for an answer. Wrestled UVU in Ames. 0:12 - Straight Outta West Gym, literally 0:18 - West Gym memories 0:21 - New wrestling room 0:27 - Ejections!? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2x Nebraska All-American Peyton Robb joins the show to talk about his crazy battle and against a nasty skin infection and how he was able to overcome it. 0:01 - Undefeated going into Big Ten 0:02 - Leg started to not feel right 0:05 - Heading to the hospital    0:10 - When it got serious for real 0:13 - Photos of the open wounds 0:32 - Back on the mat 0:36 - Taking a loss 0:39 - Winding down the c...

Northern Iowa Panther and #1 ranked 184 pounder Parker Keckeisen joins the show. 0:02 - Max Askren and falling in love with wrestling 0:08 - Thinking about positions 0:09 - Keegan story 0:14 - Cat and mouse game 0:17 - Chilled out scrapping vs trying to win 0:25 - Straight Outta West Gym 0:30 - Truax 0:44 - Visualization 0:48 - Wins and whoopins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

Michael Kemerer was a 5x All-American for the Iowa Hawkeyes. He announced his retirement from wrestling earlier this week and joins the show to talk about his career. 0:01 - Considering retirement 0:04 - Considering 7th year 0:06 - 2020 COVID Cancellation 0:08 - Overcoming adversity 0:10 - Big duals at Carver Hawkeye 0:15 - Best performance 0:18 - Iowa and Cornell and Young Guns 0:22 - First ever...

Iowa freshman Gabe Arnold joins the show to talk about his journey through wrestling and his big recent win at 184 at the Iowa-Iowa State CyHawk dual. 0:01 - Introduced to wrestling, wasn’t for him 0:05 - Falling in love with wrestling, dad’s influence 0:09 - Talk from dad after youth states, you missed a rep 0:12 - Going to Wyoming Seminary 0:17 - Growing up fast at prep school 0:20 - Developing...

Olympic gold medalist and PRTC head coach Brandon Slay, along with UPenn head coach Roger Reina join the show. 0:00 - College wrestling is changing 0:02 - Changes on the senior level 0:03 - Impact of 3 point TD 0:06 - Coaching Brandon Slay 0:13 - JB at 74kg 0:16 - Kazakhstan 0:23 - PRTC Keystone Classic 0:26 - Keystone Classic to determine starters 0:29 - Vibe to the Olympic year 0:32 - Coaching M...

Sammy Sasso joins the show for the first time since getting shot in August. He reacts to the Young Bucks series and talks us through his long road to recovery. 0:01 - Young Bucks 0:05 - Sammy’s reaction to the series 0:07 - Friday night at NCAAs 0:11 - Getting shot 0:25 - Progression to recovery 0:32 - Physical therapy 0:35 - Today’s progress 0:38 - Returning to Covelli 0:41 - Current role with th...

J Jaggers joins the show to talk about the new series, Young Bucks: A Season With Ohio State. He also gives some updates on wrestle offs and line up news. 0:01 - Young Bucks: A Season With Ohio State 0:03 - CKLV was rough last year 0:05 - Injuries and more injuries 0:08 - How the freshman have changed in one year 0:12 - Playing mafia 0:16 - What a finish! 0:20 - Sasso Strong 0:23 - Wrestle offs &...