Austin's 1st wrestling match

So the football season has ended and now the wrestling begins. Austin told us last year that he wanted to get into wrestling, well we waited to see if it was something he really wanted to do until this year and he still wanted to try it.

It has been three weeks since the start of the season and practices, and today we had his first meet at Juan Diego in Draper. There were so many kids there, all grade levels Kindergarten thru 8th grade, both girls and boys were able to compete.

So Austin in his first match he wrestled against a boy who had been wrestling for 3 years already. Austin was able to hold his own but eventually lost the decision on technical points, we were proud of him that he fought so hard and scored many points of his own, you could tell that as the match went on he got better against the other boy.

Austin was not very fond of loosing his first match but sat and watched older wrestlers and we talked about what he could do in his next match to get better.

The second match went better, he was able to wrestle a boy who also was in his first year of wrestling. Austin totally dominated the match, the other boy did not score a point on Austin and Austin was able to pin him nearly halfway thru the match. He was so excited to win, so not bad for his first time out, 1 and 1. He is very excited to wrestle, the fact that it is an individual sport I think he likes, if he makes a mistake he knows what to do to correct it for the next time. He looks to be talented at this so it might be good for him over the years.

Now that Maddison has seen the wrestling and the fact that she saw plenty of girls wrestling against boys she has become all excited for wrestling and really wants to try. Danielle and I are not as excited about it but hey if she wants to try it I guess next year we can try to put her in as well and see how she does. She does wrestle with Austin all the time so who knows...