Hawkeye Wrestling Club members Thomas Gilman and Sammy Brooks are taking part in the Men’s Freestyle National Team Camp at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Gilman is fresh off of winning a Silver at the 2017 World Freestyle Championships at 57 kg/125 lbs.  

Brooks recently stormed through the U.S. World Team Trials to make the U23 World Freestyle team at 86 kg/189 lbs.  Brooks will now represent Team USA in the first ever U23 (Under 23 years of age) World Freestyle Championships  in Bydgoszcz, Poland, November 21-26.

Former Iowa Wrestling national champion and Freestyle World Silver medalist Royce Alger, a coach for Titan Mercury Wrestling Club, was also invited to coach at the camp that will be held on October 17-19.