Personal Narrative: My First Year Wrestling

First off, i’d like to say that nobody ever thought I was going to make it as far as I did. Then again, how could I not, with so much to prove to those who doubted me, several times I couldn't help doubting myself. Sometimes you just have to deal with the cards you've been dealt even if it means sometimes you're gonna bust. When all odds are against you do you take the easy way out, or do you say hit me again. This is the story of how I managed to wrestle in the state tournament two weight classes up, against competitors weighing 30 pounds heavier than me.

To truly tell a good story, you have to start at the very beginning. My story starts in the winter of 2014, it was my first year wrestling and i was on the junior varsity team. I wanted to make a lasting impression on my coach by picking up the moves fast, practicing hard, and winning matches, but sometimes things don't always go exactly as planned. Picking up moves was a great challenge starting out mainly because wrestling was a completely foreign sport to me. Practice was much harder than I had expected, on a typical day of practice I would sweat through both changes of clothes that I …show more content…
I thought to myself this has to be the year I make varsity.I came into the season pretty confident after doing well in all of the summer tournaments I had participated in. I ended up wrestling jv again with a couple of varsity matches thrown in here in there. All in all it was a good season, it got to the point where jv matches where somewhat of a joke. I won several of the jv tournaments and even won a varsity B tournament. In hindsight I wasn't as good as I thought, I still wasn’t completely on par with the varsity team. I ended off the season on a much more encouraging note and I felt like I was ready to move up to a more advanced wrestling gym. All summer I worked just about every day to prepare for the upcoming