For the second year in a row, Camden McDanel is a U20 US Open Champion at 97 kg.
An incoming freshman for the Huskers, McDanel has spent the last year at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs in the Early Accelerator Program while taking a grayshirt, delaying his college eligibility a year.
I’d say the year spent in Colorado was a good one. McDanel won a senior-level tournament overseas, fell one win short of making the Olympic Trials, and won a U20 World bronze medal. Now, he’s one step closer to getting back to the U20 Worlds in search of gold.