Wrestling

As you know I wanted to wrestle because I thought it was something like WWE. Once I found out that it wasn’t anything like WWE, I continued because It was like a stepping stone and I really liked it. To help it out I actually was very successful. Only my second year wrestling (4th grade) I won my first of many state championships. I also really liked the sport and kept with it this whole time because it is an intense individual sport. The sport also teaches you so much about your physical and mental abilities, sportsmanship, different cultures, and so much about yourself. As I got older, the competition got harder because kids were maturing. That why in 6th grade I decided to wrestle over the summer and go to club practices in Belfast. That year did I not only win a state championship I also won my first of two New England titles.

My mentor would probably be anyone who coaches me outside of school practices. I like our high school wrestling coach a lot but it is really the places I wrestle not the coaches. For example, if I wrestle bad kids every day in practice I wouldn’t get much better but when I go to other practices and wrestle good kids the whole time I get better a lot faster. Since I have been going to other practices I have not lost a state championship(6th-11th grade). 

Sadly, half way through my 7th-grade year the club I was going to closed because of family problems. Since that happened I went to a club in Mountain Valley and still go once in awhile. I don’t go as much anymore because I decided to get into freestyle wrestling my sophomore year and that is over the summer. Freestyle is like high school wrestling but is different because of the scoring and in freestyle, there is a lot of throwing. There practices are either in Portland or Bath so all my practices are a distance away.