{"id":285,"date":"2005-01-13T20:27:41","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T02:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/?p=285"},"modified":"2005-08-17T05:42:48","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T10:42:48","slug":"life-times-of-1st-year-texas-hs-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/w285\/life-times-of-1st-year-texas-hs-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Life &#038; Times of 1st Year Texas HS Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrestlingmall.com\/htmls\/news.asp?Cat=3&#038;View=10437 \"target=\"blank\">The Life and Times of a First-Year Texas High School Wrestling Program<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Led by Former Oklahoma State Wrestler Justin Turner, The Vista Ridge High School Wrestling Program is Turning Heads &#8220;and Winning Matches <\/p>\n<p>By Matt Krumrie &#8220;Senior Editor <br \/>Please send comments, questions or replies to: info@thewrestlingmall.com <\/p>\n<p>Justin Turner was a Division I wrestler for Oklahoma State from 1996-2000. A native of Dumas, Texas, Turner competed at the highest level of collegiate wrestling under the tutelage of legendary coach John Smith.<\/p>\n<p>After graduation Turner turned to teaching and coaching. He coached the 2000-01 Richland High School (Fort Worth) team to a district championship. From 2001-03 he coached at Pampa High School (Fort Worth), where he started a new program. From 2003-04 he was the head assistant at Broken Arrow High School in Oklahoma, and helped coach the team to a state runner-up finish. <\/p>\n<p>Turner is now back in Texas, and is coaching a first-year boys and girls wrestling program, this time at Vista Ridge High School in Cedar Park, Texas, located about 20 minutes from Austin. He has 20 kids in a wrestling program at a public school that has an enrollment of 1,100, but only two classes &#8220;freshman and sophomores. The school will expand to grades 9-12 in two years with enrollment expected to be around 2,500.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrestlingmall.com\/htmls\/news.asp?Cat=3&#038;View=10437 \"target=\"blank\">Continue reading at the source.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Life and Times of a First-Year Texas High School Wrestling Program Led by Former Oklahoma State Wrestler Justin Turner, The Vista Ridge High School Wrestling Program is Turning Heads &#8220;and Winning Matches By Matt Krumrie &#8220;Senior Editor Please send comments, questions or replies to: info@thewrestlingmall.com Justin Turner was a Division I wrestler for Oklahoma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrestling"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B7Di-4B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}