Zeke Jones
Zeke Jones
Larry Lee "Zeke" Jonesis 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 six-time national freestyle champion, four-time 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...
ProfessionWrestler
Date of Birth2 December 1966
lost motor
Unfortunately, we lost Dustin; he was never able to get his motor running, and that was disappointing for him.
calls job tough whether
The referee's job is to make the calls whether they're tough or not. Some went our way and some didn't.
approach attention bring certainly focused realize since teams wrestling
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.
compete forward future goals high looking matt national opportunity penn
Obviously, his future is bright. He's going to be the future of Penn wrestling. ... We're really looking forward to Matt accomplishing some high goals and having that opportunity to compete to become a high All-American or national champion.
behind blessing injury opportunity patches proud rough sixteen sweet tremendous year
He just has been a tremendous blessing in the program. He's had some rough patches between injury and being behind Valenti. He got his opportunity this year and to make it into the Sweet Sixteen is something he can be very proud of.
spots
I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.
advantage court eat home sleep
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.
equally giant last matched separation teams
A lot of the teams will be pretty equally matched up there. There is no giant separation from the first to the last team.
collective effort hoping scoring shots smaller success
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.
health seen team
It's the most health I've seen a team that I've been a part of in 15 years.
deeper great people
It's great that people will be able to get a deeper look into the program.
advantage charge close either moment
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.