S8E232: Francesca Gusfa - National Champ, D-I Wrestler, and Non-Profit Founder!
Aug 24, 2026 · 34 min · 10 segments
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David SyvertsenHost
Francesca GusfaGuest
Aug 24, 2026 · 34 min · 10 segments
David SyvertsenHostFrancesca GusfaGuest
And so that's kind of like a repeat story for you, right? Because if I remember correctly, you lost, was it in the state championship the year before? Yeah, the year before.
So, and again, for any of you young athletes out there, CrossFit included, right? We have a lot of young CrossFit competitors.
A guy that's, you know, somewhat new to the CrossFit scene in terms of competing.
Because it makes you really hyper-focus on small details that you could overlook because you're doing so well.
And you don't really hit that adversity and you don't know really how to deal with it.
Was there anything that you can... tie from your loss at states to winning states and then loss at fargo to winning fargo is there anything you can kind of pinpoint of like hey this is what i did to get better because of what happened to me previously
yeah so i think that one thing that i can definitely connect is the mental aspect of it i feel like as we get into higher and higher levels for me, like at higher and higher levels of wrestling tournaments, there's bigger and bigger moments that you kind of have to be prepared for.
And I think my first year at States and also my first year at Fargo, I wasn't you know, prepared enough and big enough for those stages.
And so that's kind of like a repeat story for you, right? Because if I remember correctly, you lost, was it in the state championship the year before? Yeah, the year before.
So, and again, for any of you young athletes out there, CrossFit included, right? We have a lot of young CrossFit competitors.
A guy that's, you know, somewhat new to the CrossFit scene in terms of competing.
Because it makes you really hyper-focus on small details that you could overlook because you're doing so well.
And you don't really hit that adversity and you don't know really how to deal with it.
Was there anything that you can... tie from your loss at states to winning states and then loss at fargo to winning fargo is there anything you can kind of pinpoint of like hey this is what i did to get better because of what happened to me previously
yeah so i think that one thing that i can definitely connect is the mental aspect of it i feel like as we get into higher and higher levels for me, like at higher and higher levels of wrestling tournaments, there's bigger and bigger moments that you kind of have to be prepared for.
And I think my first year at States and also my first year at Fargo, I wasn't you know, prepared enough and big enough for those stages.
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