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Yorkville’s Caleb Viscogliosi has future in football, but his wrestling coaches are glad he’s back on the mat · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yorkville's Caleb Viscagliosi has future in football, but his wrestling
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  coaches are glad he's back on the mat. This article
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  is being read by an automated voice brought to you
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  by Everlett. Yorkville senior Caleb Viscogliosi will play football at
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  the University of Wisconsin Platteville next year, but he wasn't
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  sure he was going to wrestle this season. There's no doubt.
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  Yorkville wrestling coach Jake Auster and the Foxes are thrilled
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  he's returned. He just went four to one at the
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  Don Flavin Invitational on December twenty, ninth thirty at decalp.
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  He's a big points scorer, and he really wasn't sure
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  he was going to compete this year with some injuries
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  and if he wanted to do. What Auster said, he's
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  wrestling through some injuries right now. When we need him,
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  we sat him a couple meets just for some rest.
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  He's a fun guy to watch. He does some unconventional
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  things and he's pretty good at what he does. If
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  we're in a spot for a big pin, he's a
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  guy that can deliver a lot for us. It was
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  a dream like football season for Viscugliosi until the Foxes
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  exited the playoffs after a seventeen zero loss to Glenbard
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  North in a Class seven to a opening round game.
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  That team was extremely resilient, Viscagliosi explained. We ran into
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  multiple challenges along the way, and not one of them
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  quit working because we believed in each other. Only we
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  knew what each other were capable of, and we pushed
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  it to the max. Viskagliosi helped the team qualify for
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  the playoffs after a four or five record in twenty
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  twenty four, going seven to three while playing alongside brother
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  Dylan as a formidable linebacker duo. Me and my brother
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  took part on the defensive side of the ball, and
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  I wouldn't have it any other way, Viscagliosi said. Growing
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  up and thinking I was his role model, just to
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  learn that I look up to him in many ways
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  as well, taught me so much. Him, along with everyone
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  else on that team, were a blessing to play with.
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  In the off season, I work out or get field
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  work in with all of my teammates. We completely flipped
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  our culture of your Fiel High school, and I wouldn't
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  have it any other way. With my brothers, I planned
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  to go into the UWP the same way I went
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  into senior year samfident and reliant on my knowledge and teammates.
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  I'm extremely excited to see what's in store for me
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  up in Wisconsin. It's a great opportunity with a great program.
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  For now he'll wrestle. Wrestling instills a discipline in me
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  that nothing else would. Viscagliosi said, I was questioning whether
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  to wrestle this year due to complications, but talking to
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  my coach reminded me of that discipline idea. Wrestling has
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  made me the person I am today, and following through
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  with this journey was an amazing choice that was made
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  along with my family, teammates and coaches. When Viscagliosi is
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  delivering ferocious hits on the football field, he's got teammates
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  around him, but on the mat it's mono imano. Knowing
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  that no one is in the circle to help you
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  and it's just you against one person is extremely thrilling.
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  Viscagliosi said. It requires me to have my own confidence
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  and build myself up outside of this circle. Like in
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  the room. My coaches helped me a lot in a
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  confidence aspect. Apart from that, I really love being on
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  a team and I appreciate that I still get that
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  feeling when we duel another team. I love it. Viscugliosi
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  opened with an eleven eight loss to Naperville Central's Nicholas
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  Olvera at one seventy five. This weekend was an up
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  and down feeling for me. Viscugliosi said, I started off
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  by losing a match in which I should have wrestled smarter,
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  but I fixed my mentality shortly after. I'd say that
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  was the key to my wins. Wrestling how I wrestle
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  and making sure to control the match played a big
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  role in all of my matches this weekend. The Foxes
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  still won the duel over the RedHawks thirty eight to
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  thirty two, and Viscugliosi followed by pinning Barrington's caber Verk
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  in fifty two seconds in their sixty to fifteen win
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  over the Broncos. He enjoyed a perfect Tuesday, pinning Joliet
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  Catholic's Aid and Bishop one twenty five at nine done
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  and Grant's Xavier Arroyo three teen at one seven twenty
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  five before finishing a tech fall win over Saint Charles
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  eastpend Giskowitz back at at one seventy five. My role
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  on the team is to fill our not so deep weights,
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  Vascogliosi said, one hundred and seventy five, and on ninety
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  or weights where we don't really have a backup to
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  fill the weight. If someone gets moved up, I have
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  to step up and get those team points. At one
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  ninety they are a little heavier than me, but I
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  have learned to be quicker and smarter in that aspect
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  and capitalize on their mistakes. He learned through the pain
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  of a tough loss last year at the Joliet Central Sectional,
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  narrowly advancing to State. I told myself I was not
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  going to let myself down like that again, Viscogliosi said.
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  I wasn't wrestling my match and my opponent beat me
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  with his offense. Developing my own offense is what I
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  have been doing as a response to that important loss.
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  State is a big goal of mine this year, and
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  I'm looking to place and he'll do it his way.
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  Viscogliosi opponents, I'd say I'm unconventional because I use my
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  length in my owen. It's movement to my advantage, he said.
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  Instead of forcing positions, I capitalize on their mistakes and
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  turn their offense into scoring opportunities. I've also recently expanded
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  my offensive game by shooting more and incorporating tilts, and
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  it's been working really well in my favor.