Zeke Jones
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"Larry ("Zeke") Jones" (born December 2, 1966, in Ypsilanti, Michigan) is an American wrestler who won a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, a world championship in Varna, Bulgaria, in 1991, and is currently the Freestyle Head Coach at USA Wrestling. He was a 6-time National Freestyle Champion, 4X World Cup Champion, Pan American Games Champion, and received the "World's Most Technical Wrestler Award" awarded by FILA, the international governing body for the sport. In college, he was a three-time All-American for Arizona State University and competed on the 1988 NCAA Championship team, coached by famed Bobby Douglas. After college, he wrestled on two world championships teams with the United States Wrestling Team. In 2005 he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

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A lot of the teams will be pretty equally matched up there. There is no giant separation from the first to the last team.

He's slowly becoming the pride of our program.

My approach has been, since they're already focused on it, why bring more attention to it? We certainly have to realize we are wrestling two teams this weekend.

I think in any sport home court advantage is always health. Sleep in your own bed, eat your own food, go through your own same patterns.

Valenti [came] through with a big pin and [took] charge of the team.

In a close bout you always need to take advantage of the opportunities and really a lot of times get charge of the moment that can go either way.

The referee's job is to make the calls whether they're tough or not. Some went our way and some didn't.

They have a lot of big bullets, we have more smaller mid-sized shots at scoring points. It's going to take a collective effort to have the kind of success we are hoping to have at this tournament.

It's the most health I've seen a team that I've been a part of in 15 years.