Ok, so I am having a great year. I started a new wrestling website a couple months ago called The Pin Doctors and it is a full-fledged hit. The Chiefs made me cry from happiness over..and over...and over... Never thought I'd see them win one...honestly. I seriously had no hope of that ever happening.
My brother, Brennan Swafford is a die hard Chiefs fan as well.
That earned him his 2nd OW of the Heart of America Conference award. And he's just a true Sophomore. So he qualified for Nationals as expected. As a Freshman, he placed 7th at nationals.
First match at nationals, he beat a Greco world team member, 20-2... here is his interview after that:
He then won his next 3 matches to make the finals, which were televised on ESPN3 Saturday night and wrestled like the little athletic genius he is:
And then he gave me this awesome interview right after:
My brother is a national champ. My brother, who was snubbed so badly in the recruiting process, proved everyone wrong!!! Brennan was obviously a great wrestler in HS, but was also first team all-state football and placed like 5-6 times in sprinting events in track. He originally signed on to playy football at Graceland, but missed wrestling and wanted to save his body so he can try out for the NFL after he graduates. And I'm dead serious when I say this... it's feasible for him. He is a FREAK athlete. I'm dead serious when I say that he should be looked at. He won the All-Hawkeye Athlete of the year as a Senior in HS which is given to the region's best all-around athlete and for whatever reason, he couldn't get a call or an email back. Not from one D1 school...out of 12. HE SHOWED THEM!!! AND WE ALL KNEW HE WOULD!!!
He was also first in the state for art with a sketch he drew of Bruce Lee in HS. An art nerd and current graphic design major.
I have some people to thank on here who have followed his career over the years on here.
Glorydayz, Lonewolf, Burt, Sorter, Hamas as kept up here and there, Rudy Lost the Toss, Brianfo.... the two main ones though:
Iowanian. He has followed him for years and has offered great praise and insight.
And...
Clay Wendler. He made this awesome highlight reel of him last year despite his fanbase giving him shit for posting non-Chiefs material:
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ENJOYING THIS RIDE WITH ME, GUYS!!! AND HE'S JUST A SOPHOMORE!!!
So, I just want to start by saying that I’m extremely grateful for all of the great things Graceland has done for me. The support from my coaches and professors has been awesome. With that being said I would like to announce that I will be continuing my journey at Iowa. Go Hawks! pic.twitter.com/pyCckVW1dZ
If you watch the finals match, when he gets the takedown at about the 9:50 mark, that’s a perfect example of his freakish athleticism. His leg/hip strength and anticipation is just crazy. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
He ever think about going the MMA route? He is a grade A badass. Can't believe he was snubbed by D1 schools. Bunch of ****ing morons.
I agree! His thinking is more along the lines of trying to beef up about 20 pounds after wrestling and try to wish upon a star that maybe he could get a football workout in with someone.... He runs around a 4.4 40....in wrestling shape.
He’s thought about that or joining a wrestling club to try to wrestle internationally. I know he’s welcome in the Hawkeye Wrestling Club now.
Originally Posted by rico:
Couple more things: Let's get Caitlyn Jenner (Graceland) to acknowledge him!!!
And Clay, let's do another video... you know I am cool about these things as far as the time you will spend on them.... take a look at the videos, even the spoofs and keep in mind that he has 2 nicknames that the wrestling world knows him as...."Burns" and "Mr. Dangerous." "Burnin' Down the House" by Talking Heads and "Dangerous" by Busta Rhymes as possible songs?
I've become somewhat ok at doing these reels... Here are two that I did for my favorite current HS wrestler (I'm a huge fan of unapologetic multisporters).
LET'S COLLABORATE!!! PIONEERS OF THE MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE LONG AWAITED RISE OF WRESTLING!!! It's coming... I'm on a mission to give wrestling a better, more accurate and funner personality through my site and it's working...and you guys all know how obsessive I am when I put my mind to something...
What a great story. Are you from SE Iowa?
On another note:
We played a HS FB game at Bruce Jenner Field a few years back... Maybe they could change it to Kaitlyn Jenner Field and get her back for the dedication and a meet and greet with your brother. [Reply]
I had to speed up the first few where he was tilting the guy and like the first opponent or two where he took a shot.... so like 25 seconds of it was sped up... I had to do it because I wanted to line up him walking to the finals to the line “as K walk to the shadow of death” and i wanted to line his celebration up with “hands in the air like you just don’t care” and a couple other things... The last 85% of it is not sped up. He is FAST. He was 1st Team All State in football as an OLB and RB... And in 3 years of going to state track, he placed top 4 in 7 sprinting events... got close to winning the 200... he actually placed 4th in the 200 at the Drake Relays, which is all classes combined (1A, 2A,3A).... this was huge because the majority of placers you see there are black... he’s fast as hell. Fastest 400 was 48.8 and fastest 200 was 22.3.... [Reply]
Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief:
What a great story. Are you from SE Iowa?
On another note:
We played a HS FB game at Bruce Jenner Field a few years back... Maybe they could change it to Kaitlyn Jenner Field and get her back for the dedication and a meet and greet with your brother.
I am from SE Iowa! Ha! it makes my day that someone on here asked that! I have a lotta SEI pride.
We tried to get Kaitlyn there, but she wouldn’t respond... [Reply]
