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Sunkist Kids are a wrestling
Amateur wrestling
Amateur wrestling is the most widespread form of sport wrestling. There are two international wrestling styles performed in the Olympic Games under the supervision of FILA : Greco-Roman and freestyle. Freestyle is possibly derived from the English Lancashire style...

 club based in Scottsdale, Arizona
Scottsdale, Arizona
Scottsdale is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, adjacent to Phoenix. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2010 the population of the city was 217,385...

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History

Many of American wrestling's greatest champions are from the organization, such as wrestling legend John Smith
John Smith (wrestler)
John William Smith is a successful college wrestler, 6-time World Champion, 2-time Olympic Games champion, and is currently the head coach of wrestling at Oklahoma State University.-High school career:...

 (2x Olympic and 4x World Champion), women's wrestling pioneer Tricia Saunders
Tricia Saunders
Tricia Saunders is an American woman wrestler. She is a true pioneer of the sport of Women's wrestling.She earned a total of five world medals four gold and one silver. Throughout her career she never lost to an American and collected eleven national titles...

 (4x World Champion), Cael Sanderson
Cael Sanderson
Cael Norman Sanderson , is considered one of the greatest American amateur wrestlers of all time. A 2004 Olympic champion in Athens, Greece, he went undefeated in four years of college wrestling at Iowa State University , winning four consecutive NCAA titles...

 (2004 Olympic Gold Medalist) and Greco-Roman wrestler Rulon Gardner
Rulon Gardner
Rulon Gardner is an American Olympian who competed in the 2000 Olympic games, winning the gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling upon defeating Russian Aleksandr Karelin, who was previously undefeated in 13 years of international competition...

 (2000 Olympic Heavyweight Champion).

Over the past 25 years, the Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club has produced more Olympic, World and U.S. National Champions than any other elite wrestling club in the United States. To date, the Sunkist Kids have 55 Olympic and World Medals, and 164 National Champions.

Daniel Severn was the original Sunkist Kid of the Sunkist Kids.
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