Personal Narrative: Becoming A Wrestler Changed My Life

Because my sophomore year of wrestling was over too i decided to do a lot of offseason wrestling. I really was able to fall in love with the sport and continue to get better and better. At the beginning of my junior year i was super

I started wrestling in sixth grade. Even though I didn’t win one of my first seven matches, I developed into a successful wrestler. In high school I won tournaments and beat high-quality wrestlers. During my junior year I was determined to become a great wrestler. I worked harder than ever and didn’t let anyone stop me. That year I lost the Illinois state wrestling tournament championship match by one point. Over the next six months between my junior and senior season I was runner up at AAU national tournament and wrestled at Disney Land in Florida at the Disney Duals with over 50 other teams and only lost 1 of 8 matches. These are a few of my achievements in high school. Now that I am in college there are many

The reason why I like wrestling as much as I do is because there aren’t really favorites in wrestling, like there are in other sports. In wrestling if a coach has a favorite and that wrestler is J.V. there is nothing that coaches can do to make that wrestler a Varsity wrestler. Unlike, say Baseball if a player's dad is a coach, that player will most likely be a starter or play quite often, even if he isn’t that good. In wrestling you have to work for what you want, if you don't think you won't be where you wanna be. This lesson will help me later in life by showing me to work for what I would like, because if I won't push for that then I might regret it for the rest of my life.

My first varsity college wrestling match was short but a success. Prior to the match we had to drive five hours to Olivet Michigan to wrestle in the tournament we were competing in. We left after class on Friday around 3:30, so we can get to the hotel and have time to relax. I was super enthusiastic all the way there. It was my first match on varsity in college! I knew I had to get the win to start off my college career.

Wrestlers know what hard work in practice is. Because of wrestling, I have now been able to outperform many of my friends who were in better shape than me before. I think i have accomplished my sports career and have reached past my point of boundaries. Anyone can become a wrestling, that’s if you have the willingness to always complete and never fall and quit. It's like this; You can never complete a move if you don't finish.

When I qualified for the AAU State wrestling tournament I never thought I would have done so well. Being in 8th grade and it being my last year to go to AAU State I put in the hard work and qualified for AAU State and I was overjoyed with happiness. For the next 2 weeks, I practice my heart out trying to get better for AAU. The day that wrestling starts the older group doesn’t wrestle till 4, so we went to the mall till 12 then Wells Fargo. The team started to warm up around 3:30 and I was one the first matches up. I won my first match with a pin and my second with the 11-3 win. My third match was against the kid that won the tournament and I lost to him 2-5.

Wrestling has showed me to not show how you feel when you step on that mat. “Never show your opponent's weakness.” That is exactly what I do when I’m around others, I don’t show weakness. It’s not really good to show others how you feel. Reasons why people don’t try to put me down. They know I’ll fight back. I don’t let anything get in my way of being successful; and if something does, all I do is push it out of my way. I am different compared to any other female athlete in my school. Wrestling has shaped me into a person who enjoys challenges. “If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.” I’ve changed so much, I love to be challenged now. Wrestling identifies me in my personality and sense of humor. Makes me very unique. My teammates too we are all very different in many ways. And it shows others that I’m not like everyone else. I have learned over the years that I am a strong, independent person and I don’t let anything get in my way. I thank that I have found an interest that I love and that defines who I am. If it wasn’t for this sport I would never be known as much as I am. I am a leader who loves to overcome challenges that try to stop me from moving forward. I don’t interact much, I’m very quiet at times, but I am a fun

"Once you’ve wrestled everything else in life is easy" - Dan Gable. Ever since I was in middle school I have would always walk by this unusually foggy room where there would be many guys grappling with their opponents as they ran out of breath and still would still have the energy for the finishing takedown. The amount of heat coming from that room was not because it was 98 degrees outside, it was build out of sweat and hard drilling. During my Junior year, I decided to be a part of the wrestling team for the weight class of 99. On the first day of tryouts I was the only girl there, my legs shivered as I entered the room. Deep down I knew I had to work hard in order to be respected and taken seriously in the team.

I began wrestling since my freshman year of high school, as I have always wanted to wrestle. I did not necessarily at the sport, but I enjoyed it. I earned medals and won tournaments, and for a time I even saw myself wrestling in college. I thought that I had my future planned until I dislocated my knee. I first viewed the incident as a freak accident, but it soon happened frequently. It reached to the point where I required invasive surgery. Mulling over my surgery and repeated injuries, I concluded that wrestling became too dangerous. But I committed myself to wrestling; I had no idea what else to do. Desperate to find an activity to fill the void that athletics left behind, I decided to try something outside of my comfort zone. As a result,

The sport of wrestling became my entire life when I was eight years old and it is the reason I am the man you see today. Wrestling helped me discover who I am as a person, and it is also a big factor in the career path that I am on today. There are countless times during my wrestling career that have been life lessons and eye openers to me, one incident that stands out from the rest was the first wrestling tournament of the season.

People that want to become a Professional Wrestlers need to know the 3 things so they don’t have a harder time as a Professional Wrestler. This topic is very important to me is because I want to become a Professional Wrestler because when I was a little child I saw Bayley win the WWE Women’s World Championship and i knew that I wanted to become a Professional Wrestler and win not just the Women’s World Championship but the actual World Championship and be the first girl to with it. After a will a lot of people convinced me to think I want to go into the sciences, but in 7th grade Mr.Johnson made me realise that I don’t want to go into the sciences because I am not as go as I really think I am. This year in World History I started to think I wanted to become an archaeologist, but when I was watching WWE Sasha Banks told a speech that made me realise that I wanted to become a Professional Wrestler and I want to win as many of those championships as I

Ever since I was eight years old I have been wrestling all year, every year, almost daily. I never thought that my wrestling career would extend past junior high or even into high school. I started doing pretty good at tournaments and practices so I thought I might actually make it in high school and become a successful wrestler. Before I graduated from junior high, I had decided that the high school that I was going to be attending didn't have the best wrestling program so I moved to another school nearby which had a renowned wrestling program called Washington Community High School in Illinois. It was a tough decision, but I eventually told my parents that I wanted to move to Washington in order to keep wrestling. They agreed surprisingly and that's when the journey began.

After Freshman year of highschool I started to slowly drop sport after to sport to help me gain time in the off season to make up for all the lost time in previous years. By doing so this helped me engage in more hours of off season workouts and tournaments. While doing so I very slowly started to realize that if I continued working hard and persevering through harder practices and harder workouts, that it wasn't too late to catch my opponents. That i would be able to be better than my opponents not only in skill level, but overall shape and conditioning. That wrestling was not about being the strongest, or most athletic in the room.

Wrestling showed me that if you put in the work you will get results. Wrestling also taught me the results won't be instantaneous, I did much more losing than winning my first two years. I learned that real confidence comes from falling and getting back up, and that if you want success you have to be willing to fall down. Immediately after high school I joined the military. As all my friends where moving into their dorm rooms, I was on a plane to San Antonio, Texas.

I started taking tumbling classes to work and improve my skills. During the summer, I started all star cheer which greatly improved my skills. That taught me that people I don't know can become your best friend. Also I learned how to handle disappointments and being replaced better. Throughout the season I grew a lot, I learned many new skills. During competition season I learned to never give up. Even though I could barely breath, I had to give all my effort. If my team wanted to win we had to work as one. If one person was struggling, we all were. We were united as