T. C. Dantzler
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| Full name | Thomas Curtis Dantzler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | October 26, 1970 Harvey, Illinois, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Greco-Roman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Northern Illinois | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Gator Wrestling Club (USA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Steve Fraser | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Curtis "T. C." Dantzler (born October 26, 1970) is an American Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed for the
Early life and education
Dantzler, a native of Harvey, Illinois, attended Thornwood High School, where he was a runner-up in the state wrestling tournament. He also earned letters in football, baseball, and track and field, while studying at Thornwood. After graduating from high school, Danzler attended Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, where he received a bachelor's degree in economics, and was a four-time qualifying wrestler at the NCAA tournament (1990–1993).
Wrestling career
Although he never won a state tournament title in wrestling during his high school years or national title in wrestling during his collegiate career, Dantzler had been a regular member of the U.S. national wrestling team. In 1995, he moved from Illinois to
Having achieved his best finish at the World Championships, Dantzler qualified for the
Olympic Games
At age thirty-seven, Dantzler became the second-oldest U.S. wrestler to compete at the Olympics, with a difference of one month from Christopher Campbell, who previously won the bronze medal in men's freestyle wrestling at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.[4] He made his debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and qualified for the men's 74-kg class in Greco-Roman wrestling. Despite of his age and first-time participation, Dantzler lost in the first preliminary round of the competition, after being defeated by Hungary's Péter Bácsi, with a three-set score (1–5, 2–2, 0–3), and a classification point score of 1–3. After losing his match in the first round, Dantzler later admitted that he was slowly reacting, because he had to speed up reducing weight due to faulty scale.[5]
Post-wrestling career
After the Olympics, Dantzler retired from his sporting career, and worked as a founder, president, and CEO of TC logiQ, a software development company which specialized in employment or volunteer background checks for its business clients. TC is NO LONGER with TC logiQ, Inc in any capacity. In his current businesses 2020 Screening, Optimum Screening and Be Sure Background Checks conduct more than 2 million criminal background searches annually for a variety of organizations, including national governing bodies of Olympic sports, Healthcare systems and dating website such as seeking.com. He is currently living in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he runs day to day and strategic planning and operations for https://www.2020screening.com/, https://www.optimumscreening.net/, and https://www.besurebackgroundchecks.com/. These three companies are The Background screening Industries Premier company In three phases of background screening. 2020 screening Employment background screening, Optimum screening Dating websites In large memberships such as not-for-profit and youth sports. And Be sure background checks [4] For Self pre-employment Criminal background screen And drug test.
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "T. C. Dantzler". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ Sesker, Craig (26 July 2007). "Ruiz captures gold while Durlacher wins silver and Dantzler takes bronze at Pan American Games". The Mat. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ Sesker, Craig (29 February 2008). "T. C. Dantzler knocks off Cuba's Herrero, now one win away from qualifying weight class for Olympics". The Mat. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ a b Gomez, Brian (23 May 2008). "Olympic hopeful Dantzler also has his eyes on business". Colorado Springs Gazette. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ Dure, Beau (13 August 2008). "U.S. wrestlers lose weight and first-round matches". USA Today. Retrieved 25 November 2012.