Scholastic wrestling

Tourettes's. The neurologist at Phoenix Children's Hospital told my mom that getting me involved in a sport would help reduce my ticks, as it would require more focus. Man, my mom jumped right into the task. Before I knew it she had me signed up for wrestling. I knew nothing about the sport, it was just the first one starting. I figured I would give it a try, what could it hurt. That was the beginning of a great love and learning about fear. I remember the first day at practice. I had no…

sport, but decided to join the team anyway. I bought myself wrestling shoes and headgear and went to the first wrestling practice of the season. The wrestling room reeked of sweat and was relatively small. An old maroon rubber mat covered the entire floor, just as dirt covered all the windows. I put my wrestling shoes on and started practice. Within the first few minutes, I quickly learned something about myself: I was terrible at wrestling. I had absolutely no idea what to do and spent…

The unique experience I’ve had as a wrestling coach will be the influence of my 2 academic work and goals at Colorado Christian University. Fifteen years’ worth of experience at two schools and in two separate periods of my life. I started coaching wrestling right out of high school and after seven years quit for various reasons. Four years later I returned and have been going strong since. One could argue that my influence comes from a talk I had with my son Adrian when he was eight years old…

wouldn’t accomplish is my freshman year in wrestling. I was always a good athlete in every sport i played. I was damn near unstoppable. We just started the season for wrestling and i was the only person in the 135 weight class so i automatically was on varsity. When i figured out that i was on varsity i started lifting and practicing a lot more because i wanted to be the best. As the season progressed, i started winning a lot more matches at wrestling meets. At our last tournament meet, i had a…

People ask me, “Why... Why do I wrestle?” Then they say, “Wrestling is so gay.” My answer to that question always seems to be, “I don't know. Why do you play with balls?” But, to be honest, I don't really know why I wrestle. I mean, rolling around a mat with sweaty guys isn't exactly my idea of what I call fun, and imagine after all of that you lose. That's just a lose, lose situation. The only win, win situation is when you win by either disqualification or default. Maybe I’m overreacting, but…

you walk in the doors for the first time, you don’t see a normal gym; there’s no treadmills everywhere…”. Xavier Woods mentions that he is thankful that John would give out his gym. John Cena gives out this gym for others to achieve their goal in wrestling or weightlifting. Though John Cena does not mention it, all wrestlers’ goals are mostly to be the best in the WWE history, but they also may want to be good parents. Lee 2 Though it is unclear if John Cena has kids, according to…

During this time period I felt like a very good wrestler. I was going to National Duals, in Council Bluff, Iowa. A lot of things happened from around March-April. I was wrestling in Subdistricts at 92 lbs. one year ago. The next day I had to make 90 lbs. for middle school duals. If I place in the top 6 places I have a chance to be an alternate or on a dual team for Team Kansas. I got picked up for sub weigh ins by Kaydin Bruner. After about 30 minutes ago I arrived. I was starving just like I…

Wrestling without having an injury isn’t as hard as it may seem. Wrestling is a full contact sport, but if you get your body conditioned and take the right precautions you have good chance of not getting injured. It is a very long season to go through. Your body will endure a lot during your wrestling career. Its not all about what you do to keep your self safe, your coach should teach you the proper way to wrestle so you wont injury yourself or someone else while you wrestle. Wrestling is…

Strength today is thought of having big biceps, six-pack abs and the ability to outmuscle anything when encountered with a problem. When the word strength comes up in conversation, people think that it means physical fitness. The definition of strength, however, goes far deeper than just the physical aspects. Strength is taking the time to study for the ACT and passing with an excellent score. Strength is willingly taking the blow for someone else’s mistake. Strength is holding back tears for…

Jax stood in front of the metal tube that now contained the woman he now knew he loved. She was dead, well, not truly dead, she was cryogenically frozen. They had pumped her bloodstream full of chemicals and dropped her temperature down to below negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit. They would wait until they had some way to save her life. Jax only hoped that they hadn't been too late and there was no way to save her. Probabilities were high that she would never be saved. Tears had dried up long ago,…