Career
Diagnosed with stribismus as a toddler, Dantzler began judo lessons to help improve his eye-hand coordination. At the close of 2012, Dantzler had accumulated sixty-seven United States national championship crowns in judo, jujitsu, karate, powerlifting and wrestling. An All-America and Athlete of the Year, Dantzler received his sports training in half a dozen countries and at national and Olympic training centers around the United States. Dantzler discovered powerlifting as a youth accidentally while searching the internet for other sporting events.
As a teen, he earned World and Pan-American gold medals in the sport.
He appeared in Sports Illustrated"s "Faces in the Crowd" at the age of ten, after winning the Amateur Athletic Union World Championships. In 2005, he made a guest appearance on American Broadcasting Company’s The Tony Danza Show.
In 2011, he set an American record at the Collegiate Powerlifting National Championships as a high school student. A perrenial United States medalist in the Olympic sport of judo, Dantzler volunteers as a youth instructor to boys and girls in his hometown.
Since debuting as a national judo coach in 2010, his students have earned seven individual junior national championship titles.
The President"s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition named Dantzler a recipient of the Community Leadership Award for mentoring junior athletes. Dantzler’s work in the community is reflected in other notable honors, including the PARADE All-America High School Service Team, Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, the Good Samaritan Medal, a United States Senate commendation and two State of Maryland Governor's Citations. Connor Dantzler"s articles on the benefits of fitness and sports have appeared in Natural Muscle Magazine, Real Gainz Fitness Magazine, United States of America Judo Magazine, USJF Judo Magazine and Muscle and Brawn.
