Doug Schwab has worked tirelessly during his 11-year tenure as Northern Iowa’s head wrestling coach to rewire his athletes’ minds. He wants them to think bigger, to perform bigger, to win bigger.
The result looks like redshirt freshman Parker Keckeisen sitting on a zoom call and putting those thoughts on record.
“I want to win five NCAA titles,” Keckeisen said last week. “Go big or go home.”
Hard to think bigger than that, honestly — which is why Schwab tends to smile when asked about Keckeisen.
“He wants to be great,” Schwab says. “This is what he’s planned to do, and what he’s talked about doing.