As the wrestling season comes to an end, some of their players have gone into sectionals. Many seniors prepare to finish off strong.
The wrestlers have really enjoyed this year. With a strong season and making it to sectionals, the team worked hard and were able to surpass their season goals.
Ved Gray who is a sophomore, this is his second year on the wrestling team. He said that “training for wrestling is a lot of work [and] he was relieved [that he] could finally take a break, but [he] knew that [he] would need to prepare for next year.”
Gray’s greatest accomplishment this year was him being able to place first in his weight class during the NEC tournament. He said that one of the things that changed this year from last year was the numbers of matches. He said that “[he] [felt] like there were a lot of schools [they] faced last year that [they did not] get to compete against this year.”
Gray said he “[he wanted] to get strong so that he would had been able to [accomplish] more…throughout the season.” He also mentioned that the team had improved their overall strength and endurance this year.
Gray said that “this year was harder than last year, [since] last year he was a freshman on the team [he did not] know much during his Freshman year, less was expected [from him].” He also said that “[since he] is a sophomore, more was expected than him [since he was a returning member].” He will be on the wrestling team again with more experience from this season and will improve so he can make it further in tournaments.
Stephanie Campos, a senior on the wrestling team completed her last and second year on the team. She said that “[she] feels really sad since this is [her] last year and it is kind of hard on [her] since she will not be able to [play the sport] since she won’t have her friends.”
Campos said that “it depends on if there are wrestling programs [for her to do wrestling].” Since the season has ended she is now doing outdoor track during the spring.
Campos said that her greatest accomplishment was getting second place during her tournament this season. She said that “[she] [wishes] she was more aggressive since…[she] was timid because she mostly went up against guys.”
She said that she wanted to learn how to leg ride, which is one of a move the wrestlers could do. Leg riding is when the wrestlers leg and interlocked with the other wrestlers leg, this makes it so that the other wrestler is not able to get up. She said that “A lot of [her] friends did it last year and they [would] always win.”
Campos said that the team had improved a lot and had gotten strong, learned more techniques, accomplishments, and were more determined.
She said that this year was not that hard but “we had more punishment days this year than last year since we were on top of our game.” Punishment days is when the team has a lot of cardio workouts and “it helps us get better, but is a lot of work.” She said that “[she] is very happy that [they] had ended the season off with a great note.”
With the season ending the wrestlers will be moving up in high school. For some of the wrestlers it will be their last time wrestling. Some of the wrestlers might continue with wrestling in college if there are programs that allow them to do it.
