Gophers' Steinhaus Enjoys Break-Out Season
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Kevin Steinhaus is enjoying a break-out season with the Gopher wrestling team. He has 20 wins already registered. He is, to an extent, the epitome of a program steeped in tradition.
Steinhaus was a leader in high school as the quarterback at Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg and taking his team to the Metrodome.
"It was a lot of fun playing on a football team and especially going to the state semi-finals, then to the finals in our senior year. It was a really cool experience," said Steinhaus.
But now, football is in the past and the present is his number one sport -- wrestling for the Golden Gophers and working his way to an already 20-win season.
"Pushing yourself as hard as you can in every workout and never letting yourself say 'I'm going to take this one easy.' ... Just going as hard as you can every time," he said.
Some of that can be traces to his days in the Kerkhoven area, a small-town boy growing up outside of town on the family farm.
He's very diligent. He's a hard worker," said J Robinson. "He realizes that in order to get there that it's hard work. He can out-work about 90 percent of all Americans."
He symbolizes what Robinson wants in his program. That's why his sights are set high -- another part of the gopher tradition.
"I want to win a national championship. That's the goal, that's what we all train for here," said Steinhaus. "You can't settle for anything less than a national championship otherwise ... where are you headed for in your trainings?"
WCCO-TV's Mike Max Reports
