THE ENTERTAINER TEITELMAN'S BACKGROUND IN ACTING HELPS HIM THRIVE AS WRESTLER AT CALABASAS HIGH.Byline: Dave Shelburne Staff Writer Bright lights, center-stage performance, capacity crowd, total audience attention ... and another big road date coming up next week. Cameron Teitelman has been there, done that - even bought the souvenir T-shirt. The Calabasas High senior's ability to relax under pressure has little to do with his exceptional athletic ability, which has produced victories over two of the state's top wrestlers See
n. 1. One that qualifies, especially one that has or fulfills all appropriate qualifications, as for a position, office, or task. 2. for next week's State Meet. Teitelman has been in the spotlight much longer than he has been wrestling wrestling, sport in which two unarmed opponents grapple with one another. The object is to secure a fall, i.e., cause the opponent to lose balance and fall to the floor, and ultimately to pin the supine opponent's shoulders to the floor, through the use of body . A third-generation entertainer whose grandmother was a big-band singer in the 1940s and whose mother was the lead singer in a 1970s rock band, Teitelman first climbed onto a stage at age 4 and spent a year and a half with the national traveling company of ``Les Miserables'' before his 12th birthday. ``I know some wrestlers really get nervous, and it hurts them,'' he said of the big crowds that come with postseason competition. ``But for me, it's like it's not even there. Going on stage in front of 2,000 people and singing and acting - that's way more pressure.'' Teitelman enters the two-day Masters Meet at Fountain Valley Fountain Valley, city (1990 pop. 53,691), Orange co., S Calif.; inc. 1957. Chiefly residential, Fountain Valley also has diverse manufactures, including apparel, computer equipment, semiconductors, and medical equipment. A U.S. navy helicopter facility is there. High needing a top-eight finish to become the first wrestler in Calabasas history to qualify for the state meet, and he goes in with season credentials CREDENTIALS, international law. The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the minister, he can be received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials. nearly as impressive as his stage resume. He has won 37 of 40 matches - 17 by pin, seven by technical fall - captured four tournaments, placed third in the prestigious North Torrance Tournament of Champions and defeated two state-ranked wrestlers and a returning State Championships qualifier. The 125-pounder's biggest victories have been against Alhambra's Kevin Prentice - then ranked No. 1 in the state and seeded second in the Masters Meet - and Marmonte League The Marmonte League is a high school sports league primarily made up of schools from Ventura County. The Marmonte Leauge is part of the CIF Southern Section. Click here to view the league schedule. rival Kevin Dunn, the state's second-ranked 119-pounder, who wrestled Teitelman at 125. ``He's pretty good,'' Dunn said. ``He's strong, he knows his stuff, he works hard.'' The latter quality might be the best part of the total package for Teitelman, whose performance on the mat and 4.4 GPA GPA abbr. grade point average Noun 1. GPA - a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted led to an academic/wrestling scholarship from Stanford and the admiration of his own and opposing coaches. ``He had a well strategized match,'' Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. coach Guy Greene said after Teitelman defeated Simi Valley's Mikey Murphy in the league final, two weeks after Murphy defeated Teitelman in the San De John Tournament. ``Cameron executed the first takedown Takedown 1. The price at which underwriters obtain securities to be offered to the public. 2. The portion of securities that each investment banker will distribute in a secondary or initial pubic offering. Notes: 1. , kept the pressure on and didn't allow Mike to get back in. If you keep on keeping the pressure, than the catch-up guy is having to run twice as fast on the outside.'' Calabasas coach Andy Falk says Teitelman worked hard to gain knowledge of strategy and technique following a freshman season in which he knew little about wrestling. But the progress did not surprise Falk, since he has never seen a wrestler as dedicated. Falk calls Teitelman a combination throwback-era wrestler and renaissance man Renaissance man n. A man who has broad intellectual interests and is accomplished in areas of both the arts and the sciences. Noun 1. - one with the brain to excel in the classroom, the poise to star on stage, the heart to rally for wins on strength alone when he knew nothing of technique, the work-ethic to learn more, and the grit to just want to face the best - anywhere, anytime. ``After he wrestles, he'll go and challenge guys, like if he found out they went to state, or whatever,'' Falk said. ``Last season (after a match) he just goes and says, `I'll challenge you.' like in the old days. ``It's usually after a tournament, when the ref is still there and everyone is hanging around. It's fun, it's like pure sport.'' Teitelman's desire to learn more led him to workouts with Harvard-Westlake of Studio City wrestling coach Gary Bairos, a still-fit former NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association champion who was a 125-pound All-American at Arizona Arizona (âr'əzō`nə), state in the southwestern United States. It is bordered by Utah (N), New Mexico (E), Mexico (S), and, across the Colorado R., Nevada and California (W). State in 1985. Bairos joined the fan club. ``He's very committed to wrestling,'' Bairos said, ``and I think he has a high ceiling for improvement. ... He keeps evolving. His goal is to place in state, and I feel he can wrestle with the best in state He's already done that.'' Teitelman already has done a lot, including taking all advanced-placement classes as a senior and putting in that 34-city tour with the Les Miserables traveling company before junior high school. He spent 28 days last summer at the University of Minnesota (body, education) University of Minnesota - The home of Gopher. http://umn.edu/. Address: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. wrestling camp, regarded as one of the most demanding in the country. He has played lead roles in school productions of ``The Music Man'' and ``Heaven Can Wait,'' has acted in commercials and helps coach the Coyotes' wrestling team. ``The kids look to him for help and advice, and he's good about it,'' Falk said. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. anyone who's had more hours on the mat than Cameron.'' Falk said he's never known anyone like Teitelman. ``Sure, there are people out there like that,'' Falk said. ``But in my experience, that came through my doors, nobody. It's interesting, when you see him, you kind of feel the heat. He's one of those kids you know is going to go somewhere and do something big.'' Dave Shelburne, (818) 713-3609 dave.shelburne(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: (color) Cameron Teitelman of Calabasas, right, takes a 37-3 record into today's State-qualifying Masters' meet at Fountain Valley High. Dave Shelburne/Daily News Box: MASTERS MEET |
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