Why Wrestling Is Important To Me

Right away I shared my plans with many people. A high number of them told me they could not see me as a wrestler, or I am too pretty to wrestle, or wrestling is just for the guys. Others told me I should go for it, but I could see in their faces, they did not think I would live up to actually doing it.

Sports have been a huge part of my life ever since I was about five years old. It has impacted my life so much. The biggest challenge that I faced was with my injuries during basketball and soccer season. I recently had to quit soccer and basketball, which was difficult for me.

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

Wrestling is a sport about hard work and dedication. Some people say that wrestling is the hardest sport in high school because the sport is mostly a mind game. If you let someone get in your head or the workouts get in your head, then you have already lost the fight. Just like in any situation in your life, if you let the situation get the better of you, you lost.

You can’t accomplish this sport with trials and pains. The toughest guys that walk in the hallways are wrestlers. We can cannot be compared with any other sport player. Even though it is not the most popular sport in nation, but in certain parts it is very well known. I love what i do.

It never happened to cross my mind to actually join the team, however; I did the next best thing. When I was only twelve years old I joined the wrestling program the only way I thought I could. I became what my school calls a “Mat-Maid”. However, being so young I still could not help the team as much as I wanted to. I worked concussion stands and helped fundraiser that was it. It wasn’t in till my freshman year in high school that I learned what being a Mat-Maid truly means.

Most of the kids stayed inside of the house and played their video games. Things for me changed and I was not as active as I was in Louisiana. This is when I noticed that everybody in the world were not as whiling as I was to play a sport or to go outside. This was a very sad moment in my life and I knew that things had to change quickly. When I got in middle school I was introduced to wrestling, I noticed right away that this was the sport for me. My parents saw that I was very passionate about wanting to be a part of the wrestling team so they decided to invest in me. I was very fortunate to have parents that could sacrifice and pay for me to do something that I really wanted to do. Some of my other teammates were not as fortunate as me, they often struggled with team dues and sometimes would even have to quit. I then realized that some people didn’t play a sport because they didn’t want to, it was that they couldn’t because they couldn’t afford it. This made me extremely thankful and appreciative of my parents and all that they do for

Last year my brothers season was basically ended when he wrestled a kid from windham at a dual meat. We found out that his muscle tore from his rib which made it hard to compete in his next matches and he ended up losing to two kids that he had beat earlier in the season at states. His last match was not only hard on him but both my dad and i felt a defeat. You see my brother wasn't always a motivated person but wrestling was his one thing he really enjoyed and my dad and i both knew how good he really could have done.

Practice, conditioning, eating right, more practice are all part of the daily grind of a wrestling season. Then there are duals, tournaments, WDA and finally state. Mandan made it all the way to state this year and we had a large number of our team place at state. I was able to come back from a torn labrum and still manage to place 7th in the 126 lb. weight class. In addition to that Mandan placed 3rd in the duals and 4th overall, that’s a win for the whole team, as well as the whole community. It really makes you feel like all the hard work is worth it when you see your parents, your team mates, friends, there cheering for you and for your team. Wrestling is a sport that like cross country looks like it’s all up to the individual and that is a huge component of success in those two sports. However, I know that the people you practice with make you better, team mates encourage, inspire, and motivate you to do your best. Wrestling helps you know to get back up when you get knocked down not only for the sake of yourself, but for your

“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.

During my freshmen year in Oroville High School the winter sports basketball and wrestling were about to start. I kept asking myself “Agh, why do both of the sports I want to play have to be at the same time?” After the second week of school passed by since the fall sports started, some of my friends in basketball kept telling me, “You should play basketball because you got a fine arm.”

Coach Vivier wrestled a little in middle school; however, he considers himself more of a fan, especially of MMA and the UFC. Initially, seventy students showed interest in wrestling, and the only

I never was the person that got along with others, for some unknown reason everyone hated me. The only problem with this is that they didn’t even try to hide how they feel. They always made me try to feel like I was worthless. They made me feel like no one loved and that no one would ever love me.The only place I could go without worrying about what anyone said was on the mat. I started at a young age and so did the bullying, but they never happened at the same time. I thought that wrestling practice was the only safe place for me to be. Then they started to merge and i no longer had a safe place. No matter how many people told me that I was worthless, that I was a piece of trash, that nobody loves you, I always just gave everything all I

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.

It may be difficult starting out in wrestling but there are three things that you need, hard work, dedication, and the correct mind set. There are plenty of ways to get better in wrestling, you need to push yourself harder than you ever would before. But you need to never beat yourself when you can’t do it you need to get back up and try harder until it becomes easier for you. You also need to be very dedicated to the sport because it is not something you can do and then lay off for a while and then come back and be as good as you were before.