{"id":372588,"date":"2022-07-19T06:02:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T20:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=372588"},"modified":"2022-07-19T06:02:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T20:02:36","slug":"nicko-salem-runner-up-in-middleweight-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nicko-salem-runner-up-in-middleweight-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicko Salem runner-up in middleweight class"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nicko Salem poses with his daughter Nicole after the former won a silver medal in the middleweight division of the 2022 NewBreed Summer Championship in Raleigh North Carolina last July 9. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nicko Salem made a good example for his daughter and won a silver medal for it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Saipan Southern High School alumnus and former San Antonio, Saipan resident entered in the 2022 NewBreed Summer Championship in Raleigh North Carolina last July 9 and won a silver medal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI got second place for that division. I fought in the middleweight class 170-180 lbs and I had two opponents\u2014one from the U.S. and the other from Spain,\u201d the U.S. Marine said.<\/p>\n

To take part in the 2022 NewBreed Summer Championship, Salem said he trained two hours a day, four times a week before the competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Salem said even though he didn\u2019t win gold it still felt great competing because he was trying to set an example for her daughter, Nickole.\u00a0
\n\u201cI never want her to feel alone and if she\u2019s going to do this for a while she\u2019s gonna need a little encouragement. This was my way of showing her that I will never let her do anything I wouldn\u2019t do myself. If I\u2019m going to tell her to be the best version of herself, I\u2019ll have to do the same,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

And Nickole did more than what her father did as the Lambs Elementary School in North Charleston student won two gold medals in the 5-year-old division in the Gi and No-Gi.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am extremely proud of her,\u201d said the elder Salem.<\/p>\n

Nickole Salem\u2019s mother is Maria Victoria, who is originally from Garapan, Saipan.<\/p>\n

Nicko graduated from SSHS in 2012 and worked for the Pacific Islands Club Saipan before choosing a career in the U.S. Marine Corps.<\/p>\n

In 2014, he became the first recruit from Saipan to earn the coveted company honor graduate for Company M after completing his boot camp training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, California.<\/p>\n

The Salem family last visited Saipan in Christmas of 2017, which also happened to be the first time Nickole met her paternal grandfather, Ricardo Salem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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