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Trevor Strickland
TheBearMay:
Lost 4-1 in the finals to a kid from Washington C.H. So probably 2 take downs to 1 escape if I had to guess (could also have been a take down & 2 pt near fall to an escape though). Regardless, an accomplishment to be proud of.
HLecter:
Bear:
Did your kid wrestle?
Details if yes.
TheBearMay:
He wrestled in elementary school in the Hwt divisions (and usually in an age group 2 years older than he actually was), but was too big at 238-240lbs to wrestle middle school (also didn't really like the coach). Lost 20lbs during freshman football and then at the urging of his coach went back to it -> Div-I varsity 215 as a freshman (went in at 218 lbs, finished the season at 188lbs) and varsity 285 as a sophomore(went in at 238lbs finished at around 218 lbs), before deciding that he wanted to dedicate himself to getting bigger and faster for football and opted to start working out with Reggie Germany (OSU and Buffalo Bills) the winter of his HS Junior year until reporting to YSU last summer (still works out with him when he's home).
HLecter:
Bear:
He definitely made the right choices.
I'm sure he cut weight the right way, but that is a big problem in high school.
Good luck to both of you this year.
TheBearMay:
Thanks, he's looking forward to mixing it up a little this spring.
Saw a lot of the wrong way to lose weight back when I wrestled, but he wasn't trying to cut weight, just found it impossible to take in enough calories to maintain. The coach ran the program more like a college program than a high school one: 1 1/2-2 hr lifting/conditioning in the morning, then classes, and a 3-4 hour evening practice session session, followed by 30-45 minutes of conditioning 5 - 6 days per week. Even on days when they had meets they would go in early to do an hour or so of "light conditioning". There weren't too many kids that needed to worry about cutting weight after that.
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