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HITTING THE MAT: The Making of A State Champ or At Least A Good Man! (Blog 37)

Blog 37 Week 12 Regular Sophomore Season Well, this is the last week of the regular wrestling season. This upcoming weekend we will compete in the Class “L” State Tournament. Then the season will be officially over for most of our team. Only a few of our wrestlers will place high enough to extend their …

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HITTING THE MAT: The Making of A State Champ or At Least A Good Man! (Blog 36)

Blog 36 Week 11 Regular Sophomore Season Well, it’s getting into the second week of February, and wrestling season is winding down. Monday and Tuesday’s practices were pretty typical. The wrestlers did a bunch of spinning, some drilling, some stretching, and then some live wrestling. Then they did some more spinning followed by sprints to …

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HITTING THE MAT: The Making of A State Champ or At Least A Good Man! (Blog 33)

Blog 33 Week 8 of Regular Sophomore Season This week started a bit different. Monday is Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, so we don’t have any school today. But, what we do have is a 6:45 A.M. bus to a jayvee wrestling tournament back in Griswold. It’s the same place we were yesterday for the …

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HITTING THE MAT: The Making of A State Champ or At Least A Good Man! (Blog 30)

Week 5 of Regular Sophomore Season It’s still the holiday vacation, but wrestlers don’t really get this time off. Some people travel during the holidays. The only traveling they usually do is back and forth to a bunch of wrestling practices and a few tournaments. Sure some wrestlers are forced or even tricked by their …

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HITTING THE MAT: The Making of A State Champ or At Least A Good Man! (Blog 28)

Week 3 of Regular Sophomore Season Well, here we are in week three of Dakota’s sophomore wrestling season of high school, and it has been riddled with ups and downs already. One of the cool things about this wrestling season so far is that Tony, the front door security guy, no longer asks me to …

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HITTING THE MAT: The Making of A State Champ or At Least A Good Man! (Blog 27)

Off-Season Wrestling and Weeks 1 and 2 of Regular Sophomore Season Wow! I can’t believe we’re back again on the mat for another high school wrestling season. It was one heck of an off-season of wrestling for Dakota. He was invited to wrestle in the Virginia Beach High School Nationals at the freshmen level for …

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