football in the fall of 7th grade, but I still did not feel like I was a outcast. When winter came around my Dad talked me into joining the wrestling team. After the first week of practices I knew I love the sport.

At first I was horrible at wrestling, I lost every match till just about midseason.

Then I started to get the feel for wrestling where I could start to tell what my opponent was going to do. I started to win almost every match. I even got first place a tournament, all three of the kids and had to wrestle had beaten me earlier that season and I pinned all of them in the first minute. When I got a tast

was one of the most painful injuries I have ever had. Between the two injuries my

My junior year was hard because my injuries were built up, and there were high

That summer I had done so good in my season that the high-school coach took me to the high-school training camp in Missouri. Missouri wrestling camp was probably one of the hardest things that I had ever done at that point in my life. I had to wrestle guys that were two times my size and most of them had wrestled for years. The style of wrestling was total differnt to what I was uesd to. They moved quicker, uesd more stranth, and it seemed they would try to hurt their oppine. But it did improve my wrestling so much. The camp made me a high-school wrestler before I was out of junior high. Also that summer my parents said I could see my friends again. When I went out with them I felt out of place. All they did was get into more trouble, and is all I had to talk about was wrestled. That summer I decided the path I was going to take, I never talked to most of my old friends after that day.

beginning of the season. In my seconds to last game I got a helmet in my injured knee. I

sophomore. The injuries were not the worst thing for my body that season. My eating

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