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Article: Cliff Medina: Wrestling Star, Noble Example
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- The Hunter Envoy
- Article date:
- April 2, 2003
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Cliff Medina, one of Hunter's star athletes and outstanding students, just completed a successful wrestling season. At the age of 21, Medina was the second Hunter College student to make it to the nationals in the last two years. The Envoy took a closer look at Cliff Medina, beyond the wrestler.
Medina became involved in wrestling as a freshman in high school. When he was on the football team, the coach made it mandatory for everyone to play another sport. Medina and his teammates joined the wrestling team. At first, this 5'5" athlete was not interested in the sport. After a while, though, Medina began to notice that he was better at wrestling than the other students.
"In football, I was ...