Saturday, December 6, 2008

It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year... WRESTLING SEASON

A time for long practices, twelve hour Saturdays, heart racing matches against your opponent. Bodies contorting in unimaginable ways; muscles tightening and limbs being stretched to their limits as teeth grind in agony. The feeling of elation from winning and the anguish of defeat.
Yeah, that is exactly what I feel!

Oh, you thought I was talking about the wrestlers on the matt!! One can always spot the parents of the wrestlers on the matt; they sit on the sidelines or in the stands mimicking the movement their son or daughter might be using, shouting out moves or counters to an action while trying to some how send them subliminal messages through their own movements of the moves they can see that might be useful.


You would have thought that 6 years of watching Talon wrestle Jr. High and High School Wrestling and Ryan wrestle Peewees and Jr. High wrestling, I would not get so wound up.


Ryan has the Varsity Seat for the 103 lb weigh class for the Winslow Wrestling Team.

But WAIT… He only weighs 87 lbs!!!! This young athlete is wrestling people 16 lbs heavier than him and so far this season he has done very well. The pre season Westlake tournament he placed 2nd over all for the 103 weight class; he received a Second Place Ribbon. Yesterday at the Westbrook tournament he received a 4th place medal. What a way to start a season!!!





Yes, the Winslow High School Wrestling Season has officially begun. Though I am sad that Ryan and his older brother Talon have never been apart of the same wrestling team at the same time; they have shared in the same programs and Ryan has had the good fortune of knowing all the wrestlers from the High School team down through Jr. High, which he participated in, as well as the Peewee level.