Nobody tells you this when you start wrestling…
They don’t tell you how hard it’s going to get.
They don’t tell you about the early mornings.
The workouts that break you down and the practices that leave you questioning if you really want this.
They don’t tell you about the weekends you’ll spend in a gym while your friends are out living “normal” lives.
Or how holidays start to feel more like weigh-in days than celebrations.
They don’t tell you what it feels like to step on the scale, dehydrated and drained, praying you made weight only to still have to go out and wrestle hours later.
They don’t tell you how lonely it gets.
How brutal this sport is on your body, your mind, your spirit.
But they also don’t tell you what it gives you.
They don’t tell you how wrestling teaches you to suffer with purpose.
How it forges discipline in places you didn’t even know were weak.
How it trains your mind to keep showing up.. especially on the days you don’t feel like it.
They don’t tell you that through the pain, the pressure, the heartbreak…
You will find a version of yourself you didn’t even know existed.
Stronger. Sharper. Hungrier.
They don’t tell you that one day you’ll look back and realize that everything you went through. the early mornings, the cuts, the setbacks.
wasn’t just about wrestling.
It was about becoming the kind of person who doesn’t quit.
The kind of person who keeps going when it’s hard, when it hurts, when no one’s watching.
The kind of person who can walk into any storm and not flinch.
That’s what this sport gives you. if you let it.
Not everyone makes it.
But if you stick with it, wrestling will shape you into the kind of person who can handle anything.
And that…
That’s worth every drop of sweat, every loss, every ounce of doubt.
Because wrestling doesn’t just build athletes.
It builds warriors.
Virginia head coach Steve Garland was inducted to the Virginia Chapter National Wrestling Hall of Fame on Saturday night with the Lifetime Service to Wrestling Award.
#GoHoos | #TheVirginiaWay
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Proposed 28th amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting the citizens of the United States that does not also apply to members of Congress themselves.”
What a great morning @UVAWrestling had doing the Cares for Kids Radio-thon to help support UVA Children’s hospital and honor our guy Kahmari. Ways to give:
Text UVAKIDS to 51555
Call 1-434-982-HOPE (4673)
Visit: https://t.co/caiiBfVx3S
It’s so stinking cool seeing how many wrestlers are relying on their faith in God and not on their own selves.. Our world needs to hear this! Glory to God!
The Peninsula Wrestling Association is sad to inform the wrestling community that the founder of the Virginia Duals, John Graham, has passed away. We will provide more details about events surrounding services.
Here is John's @NWHOF bio:
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