competitions. He won a Silver medal in the Directors division in No-Gi competition. The Championships were held at the University Sports Complex of Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland. Hernandez has 20 lifetime victories in NAGA Tournaments. In July 2017, Hernandez won two gold medals in his age group 50 & over and a bronze and 4th place competing against 20–30 years his junior in the heavyweight division at the Sunflower State Games American Folkstyle Wrestling Championships and Takedown Tournament held in the Kansas Expocenter, in Topeka, Kansas. On October 20–21, 2018, Hernandez was selected by USA Sambo Inc. to represent the US at the World Masters Sambo Championships at the Stade Mohamed V, Casablanca Morocco. He competed in the 60-64 age group in the +100 kg weight class. Hernandez defeated Sakhtan Bekpeiisuly of Kazakhstan 5-3 for the Bronze medal. Honors and awards Hernandez was featured on a box of Wheaties Energy Crunch in December 2001. Hernandez was welcomed into the Wheaties Family by Olympic Champion Mary Lou Retton and Tiger Woods in Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York. He was also featured in Sports Illustrated'''s "Faces in the Crowd" and CNN/SI "Faces in the Crowd". Hernandez has been inducted into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame. Hernandez was selected by the Rotary Club of Washburn, Maine, to serve as the Grand Marshal of the 22nd Annual Washburn August Festival Parade in 2002. In October 2008, Hernandez was featured in the Scholastic textbook publication on the state of Maine called "Maine: America the Beautiful". Hernandez was featured in Discover Maine'', "Maine's History Magazine" in 2010. On November 4, 2010, the President of the American Sambo Association announced James "Chico" Hernandez to be the "Pioneer of American Sambo" Award winner for 2009. The AAU Wrestling Executive Committee announce that James "Chico" Hernandez is a 2012 AAU Wrestling Hall of Fame Inductee. Military Hernandez is a US Army Veteran of the Cold War and has also served honorably during the war eras of 1982 Lebanon War and Operation Urgent Fury (Grenada), Gulf War (Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom) and the War on Terrorism. He completed his Combat Basic Training at Fort Dix, New Jersey, in March 1982. He has served as a Combat Basic Training Instructor at the United States Military Academy in 2002-2005. He has instructed at US Army Post Fort Leonard Wood,