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A With Wrestler Konrad Dudziak

DURHAM, N.C.Konrad Dudziak, a wrestler here at Duke, has taken this school year off to focus, train, and compete for a spot on the United States Olympic Team. The 211.5 pound Dudziak will compete in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials this weekend June 13-15 in Las Vegas. If victorious in the matches this weekend, Dudziak will face the No. 1 ranked wrestler in America in a best-of-three series to represent the U.S. in Beijing this summer. Dudziak will be returning to Duke this fall as a redshirt-junior. He will be a top candidate to become the first All-America or National Champion in program history.

GoDuke.com recently caught up with Dudziak, a native of Poland, to discuss the upcoming Olympic Trials.

GoDuke.com: You decided to take this year off from Duke. Was that a tough decision to make?
Konrad Dudziak:
“No, not really, not this year. I had been taking time off since my sophomore year, so I took half my sophomore year off, half my junior year off and then this whole year. It really wasn’t a tough decision; it was hard at times because I had never been able to come back to Duke and my graduating class, and I haven’t seen them in the last two years. I kind of regret that but it really wasn’t a tough decision.”

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Dudziak Takes Aim At Olympics

6/11/08

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Dudziak Takes Title At University World Team Trials

5/29/08

Konrad Dudziak continued his quest to make the U.S. Olympic team this past weekend when he won the championship in freestyle at 211.5 pounds at the University World Team Trials. Du...more...

Duke Wrestling Hands Out 2007-08 Team Awards

5/23/08

Duke wrestling announced its team awards for the 2007-08 season, a year in which they tied a school record with 11 dual meet victories. Redshirt sophomore John Barone and senior Ke...more...

Duke Places 10 Wrestlers On All-ACC Academic Team

5/15/08

Ten Blue Devil wrestlers were named to the 2008 All-ACC Academic Wrestling Team, announced today by league commissioner John D. Swofford. That number led all ACC schools, with the ...more...



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