Son and I are currently sitting in Cameron waiting for the Duke/UNC wrestling match to start.
Just said a prayer that we have no wrestling shoe blowouts tonight!
Just said a prayer that we have no wrestling shoe blowouts tonight!
OT - Duke wrestling
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I had a friend that wrestled in high school. He didn't have a shoe blowout but he did have a blowout. His name was Tinker. Going into the day he was a lititle overweight and the coach told him he better make the weight. He decided that ex - lax was his best choice. Problem is instead of taking a little block he too the whole bar. He had the jump and runs all day. He made his weight. His match came up and the match starter. Then out of nowhere came the blowout right in the middle of the match. Right out the pie hole. He yelled time out and off he went. He had to forfeit. The one good thing is he did have one dark tights. I called him Stinker after that.
OFCMy son wrestles in high school and loves it. Saw Duke wrestle at Gardner Webb last year. Good thing for him right now is he is a light 265 lbs heavyweight. Doesn't have to really worry about making weight right now, but he is also only a FR and plays football too as a 6-2 OL. Has really started hitting the weights so the lbs may start creeping up in a good way.
Since we don't get many wrestling topics, check this kid out. His name is Antwon McClee from Ashbrook in Gastonia. This is from last year. He just finished this season storming through the 3A heavyweight division, going 40-0 and winning the 3A state title. He is also a monster on the football field. Sure would look good in Duke blue.
My son just finished his junior year wrestling. This year wrestled at 145. Last year wrestled at 195!
Long story/short on the weight loss: he has terrible migraines and the medicine they put him on for them last year had a side effect of decreased appetite. He didn't eat very much and got really, really lean.
Made regionals last year and lost out in two matches. Qualified again this year and lost out one match away from state qualifying.
Love watching him compete!
Long story/short on the weight loss: he has terrible migraines and the medicine they put him on for them last year had a side effect of decreased appetite. He didn't eat very much and got really, really lean.
Made regionals last year and lost out in two matches. Qualified again this year and lost out one match away from state qualifying.
Love watching him compete!
Sorry to hear about your son’s migraines. Congrats to him on his accomplishment this year. Hopefully he makes State next year.
Thanks! It has been a challenge for him. They started in the 8th grade during middle school football. The first one he had came out of nowhere. He came to me at practice and said "Dad I have a headache"
The football coach in me said suck it up, practice is almost over. We'll be home soon. On the drive home he started stuttering. By the end of dinner we couldn't understand what he was saying the stutter had increased so badly.
Took him to the ER and he ended up in the hospital at Duke for three nights. No one knew what it was.
Saw a pediatric neurologist who diagnosed it as a "complex migraine."
He didn't have any more that season, or during wrestling.
Then his freshman year during football it happened two more times - so much to my personal heartbreak he stopped playing football and didn't wrestle that season.
He loves wrestling as much as I love football so he gave it another shot last season. Mid season they started back up and the medication was increased until they stopped again.
This season they started back up right around Thanksgiving and he kept a nearly constant headache through the month of December and ended up back in the hospital for three nights again the first week of the year.
I thought the wrestling season was done - but he fought back to win two matches the last week of the season and qualify for the conference tournament - where he took third and qualified for the regionals.
Then the week of the regionals he had another bad one that broke the night before competition started. Had two different migraines pop up during regionals, but the medication helped and he was able to compete.
This post turned out much longer than I intended, but I am so proud of him to fight through all of this and continue to compete.
I know basketball is king right now, but I wanted to bring this to your guys’ attention. Mitch finesilver got the #3 seed in this year’s tournament. That is the highest seed ever by a duke wrestler. He made it trough the first two rounds yesterday and is currently in the quarterfinals. Should he win today’s match and go on the semis, he’ll be guaranteed an all American finish. But it gets better. Who’s he wrestling today? UNx’s own Austin O’Conor. Mitch is 3-1 against him this year, and their last match in the ACC Tournament Mitch won pretty easily. Let’s root for our guy and wish him the best.
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