Daily News | NFL D-line draft prospect Keeanu Benton and his Wisconsin high school wrestling coach are bonded for life
A bond for life was instilled between Wisconsin draft hopeful Keeanu Benton and Janesville Craig High School wrestling coach and physical education teacher Mark Mullen, long before the two knew each other.
It was a moment Mullen says he had to make a split-second decision, with Benton’s sister, TiVeanna, unresponsive in the middle of the gym class floor.“We had been doing the chest compressions on her, her heart stopped and she has no heart rate right now, we got to do something,” Mullen recalls. “I said you know what, you guys, I don’t care if I get fired. There’s other jobs that fire teachers, it’s not like I’m a millionaire.
“He ended up that year, [wrestling against] one of our big rivals and they had a senior heavyweight who had a bit of a wrestling experience here,” Mullen said. “But Keeanu beat him in the dual meet for us to win the dual meet, as a freshman beating a senior who had been around wrestling for a while.”
Despite the success Benton had as a wrestler for Janesville Craig, the two-sport star was largely under-recruited as a football player. That all changed with one phone call from Mullen to Wisconsin’s current athletic director, Chris McIntosh, who was the deputy athletic director when Benton was going through the recruiting process.
“And I said, Keeanu’s got a bigger upside than him...you won’t believe how athletic he is and his potential is off the charts.”
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