{"id":114498,"date":"2015-02-18T18:48:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T01:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/guy-wallace\/"},"modified":"2015-02-18T18:48:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T01:48:45","slug":"guy-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/guy-wallace\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Wallace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\" data-naviga-align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=9030c4b0-605e-43d9-8c3e-e4dfcc57039a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=9030c4b0-605e-43d9-8c3e-e4dfcc57039a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=9030c4b0-605e-43d9-8c3e-e4dfcc57039a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=9030c4b0-605e-43d9-8c3e-e4dfcc57039a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"400\" height=\"607\" alt=\"Guy Wallace\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Guy Wallace<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>At each of the last three Colorado state wrestling tournaments, Dolores High School senior Guy Wallace watched from the stands and longed to compete.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing fourth at the Regional tournament on Feb. 14, the 145-pound three-sport athlete known for his strength in the weigh room will finally get the chance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been going to the state tournament for three years now, but I\u2019ve never wrestled,\u201d said Wallace.  \u201cWhen I qualified, I was just happy.  It was a good feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wallace (32-13) will kick off his quest for a state championship in Denver on the afternoon of Feb. 19 when he faces off against Lyons High School\u2019s Kanyon Raper (14-8).<\/p>\n<p>If the Bears senior wins, he will face off against either McClave High School\u2019s Dayton Garcia (9-15) or Holly High School\u2019s Ryan Nordyke (25-2) on the morning of Feb. 20.<\/p>\n<p>The key to my success will be to focus on my match and not get overwhelmed by what\u2019s going on in the whole big arena,\u201d said Wallace.<\/p>\n<p>Off the mat<\/p>\n<p>Favorite music: Country<\/p>\n<p>Favorite movie: The Shooter<\/p>\n<p>Favorite TV Show: Friends<\/p>\n<p>Favorite Team: Huston Texans<\/p>\n<p>Favorite Athlete: JJ Watt<\/p>\n<p>Dream Job: Test driver<\/p>\n<p>Historic dining partner: Jerry Miculek<\/p>\n<p>Superstition: Hits the mat twice after putting on ankle wrap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for first trip to state tournament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6362],"tags":[188],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-114498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ds-sports","tag-dolores-star"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114498"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=114498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}