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09 Oct 2020
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October 9, 2020 Ryan Warner

#169 Bruce Burnett – 4x Olympic Coach, Hall of Famer

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Four-time Team USA Olympic Coach Bruce Burnett is our guest today.  Bruce is known as one of the great coaches of all time.  A brilliant tactician who developed a mastery of studying film.  Bruce has been inducted into numerous hall of fames and currently resides in North Idaho.  In this episode we talk about Bruce’s coaching career, John and Pat Smith, and the 1992 Olympics.  

 

BIO: 

Bruce Burnett was the U.S. National Freestyle Coach for USA Wrestling from 1992-2000. During his tenure, the U.S. won World Team Titles at the 1993 and 1995 World Freestyle Championships and captured five medals at the 1996 Olympics. The 2000 Olympic squad won four medals. Burnett was named USA Wrestling Freestyle Coach of the Year in 1995 and 1996 and the U.S. Olympic Committee Coach of the Year for 1996. A North High graduate, Burnett was a two-time State Champion with a 55-3 record, winning the state meet’s outstanding wrestler award in 1970. He then wrestled at the University of Idaho, where he was a Big Sky Champion and undefeated in dual meets.

 

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Hosted by Ryan Warner, the Wrestling Changed My Life Podcast features in-depth interviews with wrestlers and coaches to learn how the sport shaped and molded their lives. By stitching together stories of sacrifice, triumph, defeat and perseverance, the Podcast takes the listener deep inside the world’s oldest sport. New episodes are released every Monday and Wednesday.  

 

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