What A Student Athlete Should Represent.wrestling Creates Healthy Lifestyle

I found myself a few years later, in junior high, still wrestling and playing basketball. I knew the choice between the two would come eventually, but I thought that it would be a much easier choice. I ended choosing to continue in wrestling, and cut my basketball career short. I soon became one of the best wrestlers in my class. I won all but a few matches throughout my junior high wrestling career. I felt like I was on top of the world.

A wrestler has to be in great physical shape because they have to have speed and strength to be successful in the sport. For example if a wrestler was quite big, but was a little chubby he does not have the speed as someone that is the same weight but a little leaner. The wrestler the same weight but leaner has a slight advantage because he has the speed over the other wrestler. Now getting to that physical fitness is the hard part. It takes excessive workouts to get there than a wrestler has to continue the workouts to maintain being fit. Now to the mental aspect of wrestling. It is hard to go out on the mat against a good wrestler and actually take a shot. MAinly because in the back of their head they are thinking I do not have a chance whatever I do this guy will counter. Now getting past that thought process is the tough part. Another time the mental aspect comes in is during practice. While a wrestler wants to stop doing a workout during a practice they have to think to themselves would I be able to do this in a real match and win. The answer is obviously no, during a wrestling match every second counts you do not stop moving during those six

Thesis: College athletes deserve be paid because they invest a lot of time, work and take significant risks but do not receive enough of the money they generate for the NCAA and schools.

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 sport forces a wrestler to go out on the mat and put out their best performance and show their strength is madly impressive. Coach Evans once said, "you can't just wait for things to come your way, you have to go and take it." In order for a wrestler to get what they want, they have to put in work and go out and get it. Dedication is a huge factor in wrestling. Throughout the season, wrestlers have to cut down weight for at least four to five months and make their weight class two times a week. Often times, wrestlers will wrestle off-season, to help stay in shape, as well as, improving their

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.

No one worked harder than Dan Gable. That being said, Gable’s work ethic paid huge dividends on the wrestling mat in college. During Dan Gable’s era in college wrestling, the competitor was only allowed three years of eligibility. Dan took advantage of every single match he wrestled. He compiled a record of one hundred and seventeen wins and zero losses going into his finals match of the Division 1 NCAA tournament his senior year. Racking up two NCAA titles in his previous years. He was on the verge of history, no one in the sport up to that time had even come close to what Gable accomplished thus far in his career. He wrestled a competitor named Larry Owings from the University of Washington in the NCAA finals his senior year. Dan felt the pressure of this match because of the hype and history he was able to make if he won. Dan was not himself in his final match of his collegiate career and lost thirteen to eleven against Owings. “One of the mind-boggling things for me in my profession and in my life so far has been why, how, did I ever end up losing that last match in college? I say that because I feel like there’s no way I should’ve lost that match, and it shouldn’t have happened. But then I look at what that match did to me, and I’m not so sure that I would change that either, because that match, that loss, probably drove me – even though it shouldn’t have, a win should have done it – but I don’t think

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.

After school, during the winter, Ben can be found working on his wrestling in the school gym. Ben's wrestling coach, Matt Oswald, describes Ben's wrestling career as a product of dedication and practice. Over his career Ben has developed a 24-6 record, placing him as one of the best wrestlers Oswald has ever coached. Ben, however, does not see wrestling everyday as a chore. He enjoys putting in the relentless work everyday. He describes the best feeling in the world as the end of a five hour wrestling practice where “[he is] so tired [he] can’t even stand up.” Just from speaking with him, it is clear that Ben not only enjoys the mastery hard work entails,

A popular saying around every gym, field, track, and weight room is that it, no matter what activity “it” is that a sportsman is participating in, is ten percent physical and ninety percent mental. For the kids who hear this daily, it is nothing more than a hollow statement a coach says to make them feel better about being physically subordinate to their opponents. I have heard this mantra throughout my life on the baseball field, football field, track, gymnasium, in the weight room, and on the wrestling mat. Just like those poor aforementioned kids being yelled at by their coach, this statement just bounced off me, never finding a sticking place among all my doubt and insecurity. Nowhere was this more true that on the wrestling mat; Coach Jaimez has told my teammates and I this countless times, and not once throughout my first four years of wrestling did this ever sink in. I am ashamed of this, as those athletes in the know, whether they be in High School or draped in their nation’s flag competing for a gold medal, know that this statement could not be more true for the sport of wrestling. Wrestling is a mental sport that is determined by a competitor’s decision to focus on himself rather than his opponent and the competitor’s confidence in himself and his potential to succeed.

A 2016 study by the NCAA revealed that there are nearly eight million students who participate in high school athletics in the United States, yet only 480,000 of them will compete at NCAA schools ("Probability of Competing Beyond High School"). Of that approximate 16% who become a student-athlete, an even smaller percent will graduate and become professional athletes. For example, data from the 2015 NFL Draft demonstrates that there is less than a 2% chance of playing in the NFL. During the 2015 Draft, there were 72,788 NCAA football participants, only 16,175 of those were draft eligible for the 256 slots which equates to a 1.6% chance of being drafted to the NFL. According to the NCAA, of the 256 NCAA players selected in the 2015 NFL draft 236 were from Division I FBS institutions, 17 were from Division I FCS programs, two were from Division II programs, and only one was from a Division III program. Student-athletes from the power five conferences accounted for for 200 of the 256 draft picks (SEC=54, ACC=47, Pac-12=39, Big Ten=35, Big 12=25) ("Probability of Competing Beyond High School", 2016). With there being a small percentage of playing professional sports after college, the importance of a college degree has become a priority for many student-athletes.

“Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy” – Dan Gable. This quote might not seem true to everyone but not everyone has wrestled. Wrestling is a difficult sport. Wrestling wears on you physically and mentally. The sport of wrestling has many difficult tasks and most people say that you don’t have to cut weight you really don’t but it’s part of the sport just like fouls are a part of basketball. Cutting weight is one of the hardest parts of the sport.

This change of attitude and increased level of performance in wrestling will change the image of spectators from outside the sport of wrestling and an increase of viewers because the sport will be more fun to watch. My change in the Olympic Games would contribute the transformation of American sport and society

With the removal of wrestling from the Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is also taking away many dreams for young wrestlers all over the world. Wrestling is a very mentally and physically challenging sport. “More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill, none have wrestled without pride”(Dan Gable).To become successful at it, one must practice regularly and put in a large amount of work. In the United States alone there are over 260,000 wrestlers who have put in this work and dedication. Yet, this is only a small portion of the wrestlers in the world. With this being a small example of the world, it is hard to not think of the multitudes of young Olympic hopefuls whose dreams are being crushed with the removal of wrestling from the Olympics.

The rules may be different in cases but, anyone can be a wrestler and have the same chance as anyone else as a competitor. The weight cutting, the different methods and the different weight classes for the sexes. There are a few different ways to cut weight in the sport of wrestling. You can starve yourself which is not recommended. You can wear trash bags while running to sweat, which is also not recommended. You can drink laxatives which is not fun. You can watch what you and how much you eat and work your butt off in practice. You can suck on candies and spit in a bottle. You can drink only water and sweat everything out while not eating food. The enduring the practices. You have to go through the same vigorous practices as everyone else including; all the extra sprints, the extra rounds of sparring and dealing with everyone else as you give it your all on the mat. Practices can be one of the biggest challenges for many young wrestlers. You are there doing activities that you most of the time don’t want to do, you will have to do those activities with people that you might not like and you just continue to do that till you are dead for the