No Excuses 

This year has been very rough with injuries and most of them did not occur while wrestling.  I can’t express how important it is to take care of your body and mind during season.

 

This requires proper eating, sleeping and saying “no” to your buddies when they want you to do some extra curricular activity that could endanger your wrestling season.  You need to be smart and make good decisions the entire season.

 

Now I know, some things are unavoidable but most things if thought through properly and beforehand can be injury free. 

 

How important is your wrestling season to you?

 

Without naming everyone that got injured this year, we had nine different occasions that someone came into the wrestling room with an injury causing me to make changes to the line ups and affecting the outcome of the wrestling meet.

 

Our season started out awesome and things looked great for awhile, then came the injuries and excuses, the team suffered horribly.  So bad we were loosing to teams we already beat and that made the team start questioning itself.  Doubt is the worst thing you can have in your mind when wrestling.  You must believe you can win every moment of every match.  This will give you the drive and will to overcome and capitalize on your opponents mistakes during the match.

 

For all of you returning wrestlers I want you to make a commitment to the team and yourself during club and next season.  Get the grades and commit to the entire wrestling season without getting hurt or having some excuse why you can’t wrestle.  Start finding a reason to win and beat your opponent.  Wrestle like you want it more than the other guy.  Remember there are no friends on the mat!

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