\u201cI feel like I\u2019m not far off from the competition,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s just little tweaks I have to make in my game. I\u2019m pretty excited for it, as an individual and as a whole for our team. We have a mix of young guys and older guys, and with that blend of camaraderie, I feel like as a team we can do something special, and get a lot of guys to the national tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although it may be somewhat unexpected for Flores-Che to advance, it wouldn\u2019t be a surprise to Head Coach Luke Smith.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a great technician, he\u2019s a great athlete, and he\u2019s a hard worker,\u201d Smith said. \u201cIf he can get to the point where he can believe in himself as much as we do \u2013 and I think he has started to \u2013 then he can wrestle with anybody. He\u2019s shown that in glimpses.
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\u201cWe all kind of battle those inner-doubt demons and that\u2019s been his obstacle. This year we\u2019ve told him to just open up, score points, and have fun. You\u2019ve been doing this for a long time, and you have nothing to protect. Just let it go. And I think if he does that, he\u2019s not going to surprise us, because we\u2019ve seen what he can do in the room, but I think he can definitely surprise some other people. He has all of the ability.\u201d<\/p>\n
That ability extends to his future goal of being an attorney, which was first fostered by his mother, Bernice, who works at a small law firm in North Hollywood, and later by watching television shows such as \u201cSuits,\u201d a legal drama centered on Harvey Specter, a top Manhattan corporate lawyer.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mom definitely has played a big role in my (career path), and it probably sounds crazy, but definitely watching that show had an impact,\u201d said Flores-Che, a political science major who is on pace to graduate with his bachelor\u2019s degree in May. \u201cIt was really cool, seeing Harvey, I was like wow, \u2018I really want to be that guy.\u2019”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI feel like I\u2019m not far off from the competition,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s just little tweaks I have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-205637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}