Now that we are in the winter season, it means a whole new set of sports for Lincoln’s athletes to a part of this year.
One of those winter sports happening right now is the sport of wrestling.
The wrestlers on the team seem very excited for this season. Some of the wrestlers have been wrestling for some time now, like Shane Reynolds and Clayton Moore.
Shane said that his older brother got him into wrestling when they were young; but they stopped and got back into it in middle school, and now Shane wrestles in high school now and he is a senior.
Others started wrestling just by talking to a friend. "I started wrestling because a friend mentioned it to me," explained Jacob Parson.
Clayton Moore has been wrestling for so long that he can’t even remember why he got into wrestling. When I asked him why he got into wrestling, Moore replied,”I honestly don’t know. It was ten years ago!”
Then I asked them what their favorite memory was of wrestling.
Shane Reynolds replied that his favorite memory was when him and Caleb Crabtree were told that they had to strip down to their underwear and go dive into the snow outside of the hotel the stayed in for their “freshmen initiation.” Then he said they later found out that it was all a joke!
Clayton Moore’s favorite memory of wrestling was when he went to Fargo North Dakota to wrestle for Team WV!
Colten Laulis had a favorite of when he was in seventh grade and it was when they all made Hunter Floyd laugh during team pictures.
Shane’s expectations for this season is placing in the top four at the Regional Tournament and then going to states, and Clayton Moore also has expectations of going to states as well. Jacob Parsons is that he hopes for everyone to work hard and to win, and he also said that he expects at least six or more of our wrestlers to go to states.