Book 4: Fresno City College Wrestling

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Since my Sophomore year of high school, It had been a dream of mine to go to the CIF State Championships and compete against the best wrestlers in the State of California. Yet, I knew third place at the LA City Sections did not qualify me for the Wrestling CIF State tournament.

After placing third at the tournament, I sat down with Adlee Fayaz, one of my coaches, and we talked about college wrestling for the first time. He reassured me that my career was not over yet and that a new chapter awaited me. Since I would be a Dream Act student, everybody advised me to look into college wrestling in California. That same day, I googled, “What are the best community college wrestling programs in California?” Some of the top three programs in the Fall season of 2017 were Fresno City College, Mount Sac, and Cerritos College.

Fresno City College, since 2016, had been a back-to-back state championship team. During the summer of 2017, at a wrestling camp, I met Paul Keysaw, the head coach at Fresno City College, for the first time. During the camp, he said, “I always tell my wrestlers that nobody works harder than Fresno City Rams.” His words resounded as I decided to join the Fresno City Rams.

During this book, I will be sharing from personal experience what being a Fresno City Ram was like—and the story of the people who impacted my life at Fresno City College.

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