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NCAA Champion Vita Arujau Elevates Team Texas Junior Squad in Pre-National Duals Training

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In preparations for the 2024 Air Force Special Warfare Junior National Duals, Coach Ray Bedford helped bring in a pretty big name in terms of college wrestling.

Two-time NCAA champion Vita Arujau from Cornell came to Spartan Mat Club in Fort Worth and worked on drills with the Team Texas Junior squad ā€” both boys and girls ā€” on June 17.

That provided a final tuneup before the trip to Tulsa for competition this week at Cox Business Conventional Center.

Arujau won the 133-pound title in the 2023-24 season as the No. 6 seed and beat No. 1, 2 and 3 on the way to a repeat. The year prior he was named the most outstanding wrestler at the championship and beat Penn Stateā€™s Roman Bravo-Young for the title.

Arujua was a four-time NCAA All-American. 

ā€œIā€™m learning a lot of laces and arm drags and all that cool stuff,ā€ said Will Deutschlander, who attends Austin Lake Travis. ā€œIt is cool to have him here. People donā€™t think Texas is really good (at wrestling) and having guys like that help us improve is big.ā€

Deutschlander, who wrestles for 3F Wrestling in the offseason from high school season, spent time working out this year at New York City Regional Training Center ā€” his first trip to New York City.

He is heading to the National Duals coming off a pair of state titles in May during another trip to Fort Worth….

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