Henry Cejudo is a wrestler and mixed martial artist whose journey is chronicled in
American Victory: Wrestling, Dreams and a Journey Toward Home. He won the Olympic gold medal at the 2008 Beijing games, and was the second youngest wrestler to ever win the gold.
Bill Plaschke is a
Los Angeles Times sports columnist and author whose books include
I Live for This!: Baseball's Last True Believer and
American Victory: Wrestling, Dreams and a Journey Toward Home. Plaschke has been named national sports columnist six times, as well as Man of the Year by the Los Angeles Big Brothers/Big Sisters.