The glory days: Timmy Cundiff defeats Cathedral
Catholic opponent as Vikings win dual meet, 51-38,
Jan. 11, 2012. La Jolla had six league champions.
(Photos by Ed Piper)
I went to Timmy Cundiff's farewell party Feb. 6. The former La Jolla High wrestler and martial arts expert leaves Tues., Feb. 10, for Army basic training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for 10 weeks. Then he gets medic training for several months at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas.
Timmy, whose parents Gary and Dee my wife Dianna and I have known for several years, was part of the championship wave of wrestlers at La Jolla from 2011 to 2013. Six Vikings won league titles in 2012, when Timmy was a junior.
He said he always had the U.S. Army in mind as he went about getting EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) certification and lifeguard certification after high school. He wants to go airborne, get flight medical training, and become an Army Ranger, which is part of special forces.
"I chose being a medic because you always need medics, and medics can go anywhere" in that branch of the military, Cundiff told me at the gathering at the family house.
He even mentioned desiring to do medevac, which is being flown into a war zone to pick up a wounded soldier, loading him or her up in the helicopter, and taking them back to the army base.
His father Gary, a Marital and Family Therapist, passed away suddenly a couple of years ago.
Timmy urges on teammate (on mat, not seen) as he
begins to move around in preparation for his match.
This occurred during win over Dons.
With his senior year shaping up to be better even then his junior year, Timmy broke his right ankle in a match and was sidelined much of the season. He came back to wrestle in CIF post-season competition, and placed second in CIF, which is outstanding.
But he said he opted not to move on to the Masters level, which would have qualified him for the state meet. He had recently come back from an injury, and he didn't want to put himself at more risk for a repeat injury.
As a junior, Timmy won his Western League title in his weight class. The Vikings won the league dual meet title. It was quite a period of success for La Jolla High wrestling.
He wrestled at 160 pounds, then 170 pounds his senior year.
Timmy said he and several teammates from the championship years attended La Jolla's meet last week against Mission Bay. One of the Viking wrestlers they watched was Jake Harvey.
Copyright 2015 Ed Piper
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