Any idea why he left? Never really thought he was going to leave.
Hey, I've got an answer! So I logged in to share. I listened to the
2023 0206 / Ep 410 of Wrestling Changed My Life on a road trip home from a UVA Dual in Feb and loved it so much, I put it through the AI transcriber with hopes to write about / amplify it someday.
Here's the text of that clip:
Michael Kemerer 4:24 Yeah, so it was kind of a process you know, after season ended last year, I didn't really know what my next move was gonna be and back at Iowa I was kinda talking with the coaches and everything and they were like, you know, it's really up to you what you want to do. So I had some places kind of reached out, wanted to see if I was interested in coaching, competing or if I was gonna do something completely different. And so Frank Perrelli reached out to me and was like, What are your thoughts post college and I said, you know, I don't know I just got out, I have a master's degree in finance. I was thinking I might go a nonwrestling role, but I love wrestling. I might want to keep competing. I was coming off a shoulder injury so I didn't know if I want to keep competing and I was like, I might want to coach too, and he was like well, we got all three. We got a great RTC. You can compete here if you want. They have the frog program, the gray shirts that come by the traditional red shirt route. So it was like you know, we'd love to have you come coach those guys and he's like, and we got to contact you know that he has a big healthcare business, name's Tyke(?) Would love to take you on, if you want to be with us in a finance role? So that was pretty pretty entertaining, especially because I didn't know which route I wanted to go. So they kind of like gave a little sampling of all three. So yeah, went out and checked it out and it seemed like the best fit.
Ryan Warner 5:46 That Spartan combat room that's attached is beautiful, isn't it?
Michael Kemerer 5:51 Oh, yeah, it's an awesome facility. It's cool. They have that the front area and the back area there too, is awesome.
Ryan Warner 5:56 Now the company you are working at Joe Sylvester works there. Who's a he's a Chicago guy who wrestled with, with Coach Koll at UNC. He's like an SVP at the company or have you come across him yet?
Michael Kemerer 6:10 I haven't. No.
Ryan Warner 6:12 so it was Aviva Health or where are you at now? Yeah, yeah. He, yeah, he was a national qualifier at UNC when Rob Koll was there and he coaches a really strong program in Chicago. Marmion Academy. And yeah, he works there. I was like, that's interesting. So the owner of that is a big wrestling guy?
Michael Kemerer 6:33 Yeah, he wrestled for Cornell back in the day and he's a big donor has a ton of support. He's helped out a lot of the former Cornell wrestlers and I think wrestlers, even from other programs, but he's, he's got a ton of former Cornell guys working for him. So he's a he's a huge resource for these guys.
