Mike Van Arsdale

Born and raised in Waterloo Iowa van Arsdale has a very decorated background in wrestling He attended Waterloo West High School and compiled a record of 206 as a sophomore went 282 while also winning a state championship as a junior and then went 273 while being a staterunner up in his senior year Van Arsdale then won a Junior National title and was a Junior World runnerup title before continuing his career in college at Iowa State University A firstteam freshman AllAmerican van Arsdale placed sixth in the NCAA tournament as a sophomore 1985 and placed third in his junior season 1986 As a senior he was the 1988 NCAA Division 1 collegiate wrestling champion at 167 lb 76 kg After college van Arsdale won a World Cup Championship in 1991 a CISM military World Championship was a twotime Olympic alternate and a sixtime member of the National Freestyle Wrestling team van Arsdale was inducted into the Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2011