Article: Youth Sports-- Good as Gold -- Yak Attack wrestler a national champion -- Eric Nanez

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 ...

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