high school

this weekend is my high school teams home wrestling tournament. its a pre big tournament with 10 teams from around the state. my brother called me last night and was talking to me about cause he is nervous about and he asked me well what did i eat before the tourny? because the parents make us a breakfast after weighins and i told him like fruit oj and some ceral thats it. he also asked what i did to get ready for big matchs cause i wrestled in our home tourny 4 years and didnt win it till i was a senior when i majored a kid who was ranked 6 when i was 2nd. i told him just dod what you do listen to music and take it one match at a time and you'll do what ya need to get done. kyel my brother told me hes got w ranked kids in his brackets so he told me he is nervous for it but i just tried gettin him to keep his head outta the gutter. so when this saturday comes kyle said he'll be txting me letting me know how hes doin and how the team is doin and i think he'll hold his own in our tourny

2nd dual

last night was our second dual of the season we were wrestling loras college at loras. that wednesday of practice miller told us we did a good job battling and getting it done against central but he said loras will be tougher and he was right but like he said before were tough and were not gunna let beat us and he asked us why were not gunna let lora beat us? he asked the whole team individually and my answer was because were tuff. after his speech we begain another practice. this practice was pre intense we hard drilled for half an hour and the wrestled hard for another half an hour and during that wrestling hard miller kept on getting on us saying your not tired! dont give stuff up and fight. after that practice he sat us down and was like man you gotta fight out there you gotta think that guys got a bat or somethin and hes gunna try and kill u what are you gunna do run away no your not a puss your gunna stand up and fight the guy ands make him regret ever steppin out on the mat with you. after he gave that speech practice was done and we headed home and last night when we wrestled at loras it worked we won 44-0 and no one gave up anything.

recruite

this tuesday we had a recruite his name was drew he was from high point new jersey. He came with us to the dual on tuesday and he was pre impressed on how well we did. that night he came and slept in coles room but before he went to bed we he talked to us and asked us a bunch of questions like why we picked wartburg? what do wee like about wartburg? what do we do for fun here? we all answered his questions and some answers where the same and others were different like i told him i picked here cause the coaches i knew werent leaving and i know there good and there gunna get me better. and after he asked us question we asked him questions like how big there high school is? how his wrestling career has been? whats his major and other. he told his his high school as 1400 kids in it ans his graduating class is 547. he said at state last here he had a back spasm in the first round and he had to inj default nout of the tourny which would suck, but he said hes determined to win it this year. he told us he wants to be a physical trainer so we had jase talk to him about some of the classes he'll have to take. while he was here he meet all use freshman and a bunch of the older wrestlers. before he left he said he really liked it here and hed keep in touch and let us know how his season goes and then we sent him on his way back to jersey

dual

it was tuesday it was our openind dual of the season. Varsity got ready for the dual while the rest of us had practice and then went and set up the mat for the dual. after we got the mat and all the cords and stuff out and set up we all got ready for the dual. we came back about an our later and found some seats and waited for the dual to start. As the national athem endede the they did introductions and and started the dual we started the dual in a good tempo and kist set the pase for the rest of the dual by getting a fall in the first period, after that we got a tech fall by kremer and another fall by marocha. groth got a fall and banks got a major and up next was one of our freshman friends who we hang out with all the time he got put in the lineup cause of some injuries. he was nervous comin in but did good and got the fall in the first period after that we started rollin we got 2 more majors by scott and azinger and the tate got the fall and house got the tech fall to end the dual. we dominated the dual 54-0 and miller was pre happy. when we started packing things up landon came out to talk to us and we just asked him like were you nervous/scared? and he was like yes i was very nervous cause keller siked him up sayin the kid was a brawler. we all laughed but were  happy for him and the rest of the team for doin as well as they did

season opener

this tuesday was our season opening dual against central here at wartburg. Coming into practice on monday after break was hard to do, cause i missed being home and not having practice for a couple of days. So when we came into practice coach miller started it with a speech he said in his speech, "we know were good, were ranked number 2 right now, but rankings dont mean anything anyone can come in here and beat us and not even be ranked, but were not gunna let that happen, cause were all here to do what we do best and wrestle hard and win". when he gave this speech millboy got really fired up and so did the team so after the speech and we started our warm up he walked around and just asked people like are we gunna win tomorrw? what are you gunna do to help us win? and everyones answer was diffent for the second one but everyones was the same for the first. so after practice that monday it brought back memories of high school how we always looked forward to our first home dual or just dual, it brought back times of doyles speeches and how he was the same as miller. When we left practice that monday everyone had the same mindset and we all knew we were gunna win tomorrow.

recap on tourny

after the tourny i got talked by the coaches. they were happy i did as good as i did being the only freshman in the bracket. they talked to me about what i couldve done better and what to do in certain situations. after they got done talking to me and on the way home i kept i kept replaying matchs and thinking what if i woulda done this? or what if this happened? and after a while on the way home i just quit thinking about the what ifs. as  we got back to wartburg the next day we went to practice and i worked on a lot of the things they talked to me about and i felt more comfortable on getting better in those situations. As i left practice coach miller came up and talked with me for awhile about how im right there and just a lil more to get over that hump. walking out of practice i thought about it and i relized hes right and i am i just need to push myself harder and work on getting better in certain situations,

2nd tounament day

Last Saturday we wrestled at Augsburg college in minnesota. We woke up at 5:30 in the morning showered and got ready to leave the hotel and go to the college. when we arrived at the college we waited around for weigh ins. final weighins came and we headed and weighed in and got ready to go for the day. when the tournament was about to start they called my bracket up they said there wasnt enough freshman so we were all gettin moved into the varsity or jv brackets. i got nervous when they told me i had gotten moved into the varsity bracket. I went back and they coachs just told me just go out there do my thing and win some matches. so while the day went along i kept thinking am i ready to wrestle other varsity kids? and all i could thing of is yes i can i wrestle with the best guy in the nation i can handle my own. so when i got called up my nerves turned into just anxiousness and i was out and wrestling against my first varsity match i was wrestling a kid from smsu and i wrestled good and got the fall early in the second period after that my next match was a gainst a pre good kid from grandview who was a 2x all american the match was back and forth the entire time and eventually went into overtime i almost got the takedown at the end of the period but time expired in double ot i rode him out so all i had to do was get out, we got into a scramble and i ended up escaping with 5 seconds left and won the match. i was in the semis after that match and i was wrestling uius all american from niacc in the semis. the match was close from start to finish but i gave up a cheap takedown and lost 6-4. i was now going for 3rd or 4th against wisconsin lacrosse kid and i just had nothing left in me and lost the match 5-0.










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