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Article: Youth Sports-- Good as Gold -- Yak Attack wrestler a national champion -- Eric Nanez
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- July 18, 1999
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The way Rick Trujillo remembers it, Eric Nanez was a natural.
"The first thing I saw when Eric first started wrestling, you
could tell that he was special," said Trujillo, the coach of the Yak
Attack Wrestling Club. "He was wrestling kids with a couple years of
experience in practice and he'd get them down.
"He was a lot quicker and faster than them." Young Nanez is now
officially special, recently returning from Billings, Mont., where
he won six straight matches and earned a national freestyle title at
the AAU Grand National Championships. Wrestling in the 53-pound
bantam division for 7-8 year olds, he won his first five matches by
pin and beat a returning champ 12-0 in his sixth, the title ...