Alumni Bulletin - Fall 2008 - (Page 30) 1 2 4 Heart of a CHAMPION By Michael Bradley Lori Weaver looks forward to the gatherings. She reconnects with old coaches, wrestlers, and wives. Especially the wives. They speak almost in code, nodding about the life they have chosen—and some have abandoned—supporting and standing by their men for whom a dank, overheated room and a sweaty mat are everything. They never so much as attempted an arm drag or tried to put in a cradle, but they know the life as well as their cauliflower-eared husbands. The reunions and awards dinners are chances to swap war stories—to be with people who understand their sacrifices. 30 LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN Lori was supposed to be in Oklahoma City in late May with her husband, Olympic gold medalist and Lehigh grappling legend Bobby Weaver ’83, watching him be inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. It would be the pinnacle for an American wrestler, to be enshrined with such greats as Dan Gable, Cliff Keen, and Mark Schultz. And Bobby couldn’t make it. Couldn’t do much of anything, really, and it was killing him. Not that he couldn’t be honored by his peers. He couldn’t get on the mat. He couldn’t teach the kids. He couldn’t wrestle. “He’s very humble,” Lori says. “I was more upset that we didn’t go than he was.”
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