Daton Fix in the finals of the 2016 U.S. Junior World Team Trials.

Photo: Jim Thrall.

Daton Fix (Sand Springs, Okla./Team BIG) has been selected as TheMat.com Athlete of the Week on May 24, 2016.Fix dominated at both the Beat the Streets United in the Square event held in New York City, N.Y. and the UWW Junior Freestyle World Team Trials held in Irving, Texas over the weekend.Last Thursday, Fix steamrolled Khayrollah Ghahramani of Iran by technical fall, 14-3, in a battle of past Cadet World medalists in the heart of New York City, Times Square. Fix won a bronze medal at the Cadet World Championships last year in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, while Ghahramani earned his Cadet World bronze in 2013 in Zrenjanin, Serbia.Following his impressive performance in New York, Fix headed straight for Texas and the UWW Junior World Team Trials where he earned a spot on his first U.S. Junior World Team in men’s freestyle.Fix earned an automatic berth to the Junior World Team Trials best-of-three championship series courtesy of his gold medal performance at the UWW Junior Nationals in April. He defeated fellow 2015 Cadet World Team member Gavin Teasdale by a 6-5 tally in the finals of the Junior Nationals held at the South Pointe Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev.Emerging to face Fix in the 55 kg/121.25 lbs. finals in Texas was 2013 Cadet World Team member and 2015 Cadet Pan American Championships gold medalist in both freestyle and Greco-Roman Austin Gomez of the Gomez Wrestling Academy.It was all Fix in the championship series. He swept both matches over Gomez by technical fall, 10-0, to secure a berth on the U.S. Junior World Team that will compete at the 2016 UWW Junior World Championships in Macon, France this August.Fix has now made three age-group U.S. World Team’s in men’s freestyle. He was on the Cadet World Team in 2014 and 2015 prior to his Junior run this year. Additionally, he earned a silver medal at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games and has won four Cadet Pan American Championships gold medals, two in freestyle and two in Greco-Roman.Fix is a three-time Oklahoma state champion for Charles Page HS in Sand Springs, Okla. He won the USA Wrestling Triple Crown in 2013 and earned top prize at the Junior Freestyle Nationals in Fargo, N.D. last summer.Each week USA Wrestling will select an Athlete of the Week based upon performance within wrestling for that week. The selection committee will consider any level of wrestling, from youth programs through the Senior level.To nominate a wrestler for USA Wrestling Athlete of the Week please send the athlete’s name, wrestling program and weekly and career accomplishments to Richard Immel at rimmel@usawrestling.org.