THE OFFICIAL ATHLETICS SITE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-WHITEWATER

Two-time All-American Carmelo Flores has experienced success on the wrestling mat on the collegiate level and beyond. He piled up 90 wins in his four seasons, including a pair of second place finishes in the Wisconsin State University Conference and the two National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics All-American honors. Flores finished fourth in the NAIA national championships in 1978 and sixth in 1979. In 1979 he was co-captain of the Puerto Rican Pan American games wrestling team and in 1980 he was chosen to participate in a NAIA sponsored goodwill tour of Japan. Two years later Flores was a silver medalist for Puerto Rico in the Central American Games held in Havana, Cuba, and in 1983 he again captained the national team of Puerto Rico at the Pan American Games, held in Caracas, Venezuela. He closed his competitive career as a member of the 1984 Puerto Rican Olympic team, which competed in Los Angeles. Flores, a national freestyle runner-up while a student at Lake View High school in Chicago, Illinois, remains active as a wrestling coach and administrator while serving as a City of Chicago firefighter. Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1997.