Wrestling has been part of my life since childhood. When I was real little my father was a high school wrestling coach in Ohio. I always went to his practices and watched the guys train and I participated in some drills. From the start, I really enjoyed the sport and the competition. When I turned five I decided I wanted to begin wrestling and start going to tournaments. Wrestling was a sport like no other. For example, training was so intense. I would have practices two times a day for three hours at a time. My father told me when I started that he would push me hard and train me to be a champion. I had no idea it would be so hard. For some reason I loved it, the training, sweet, and tears and everything about it I

247-5. One of my greatest accomplishments of those twelve years was that I was a three time Junior National Olympic Champion. I had accomplished so much in that first part of my wrestling carrier. Unfortunately, I started to get a big head. The more I won the more I thought I was unbeatable. Some tournaments I was going into knowing I was going to win. My carrier was just a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. I was the best in my weight class and I new it, and that became a huge problem in my carrier.

The sport of wrestling was good to me and it was my life. I had worked so hard and accomplished so much in my wrestling carrier. From being the best to being never able to wrestle again in my life, after having everything God could have given a good wrestler, I took it all for advantage, and now it is all gone.

During my twelfth grade year I was offered a full ride wrestling scholarship to Oklahoma State University. This is what I had dreamed for my whole life and worked so hard for. My freshman year in college I wrestled great and my record was 23-2. I was the division I 135 pound weight class national champion. Everything was going like I had dreamed. Then suddenly the ticking time bomb exploded. One day I was approached by a "coach" and was offered money for living cost and food. Several of the athletes wer

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