Breaking it in the middle of the season is pretty impressive. But he's so much more than just a good wrestler. He's a great leader and motivator for us. The guys started calling him Preacher Moody because he lifts everyone up in the room. |
He's been losing weight naturally throughout the year. So he'll wrestle 130 at Princeton this weekend. |
I know he thinks he didn't wrestle his best. But he's second in the state; that's got to feel good eventually. |
Last season, we had only nine healthy kids. We hope to get quite a few kids out to the sectional meet. If things go well, we have a possibility of winning the regional, but there are a lot of quality teams. |
They've been preparing for this all year long. (The Monticello match) was a little too exciting. Obviously, if you wrote a story, this is what you'd want - freshman has to get the pin to win. |
We didn't represent ourselves very well at all. We didn't wrestle badly, we just didn't do as well as we should have. We lost a lot of close matches, which is disappointing. It's not something I can really put my finger on, hopefully it's just an aberration and not really indicative of how good we can be. |
Whatever he could do to keep busy and be a part of the team. He did whatever needed to be done. He even helped out Eric, a kid that might take his spot. I thought that showed a lot of character. |
You tell him six weeks ago that he's going to be second in the state and I doubt he'd be disappointed in that at all. We didn't even know if he was going to be able to wrestle. |