Wrestling Is The Hardest Sport For Boys Regarding College Recruiting

[Anonymous]

It is a stupid sport. I was briefly on wrestling team in HS.

But our best wrestler who did get a college scholarship and did make Olympic team once afterwards for a brief period he was tossed around by Andre the Giant and Hulk Hogan in wrestling as the No name guy who always loses.

Then he was done.

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Anonymous wrote:Tennis has a ton of international players too.

Basketball is where the best male American athletes are though. It is impressive to see them pick up sports like tennis and golf.

Agree 100%. My husband is always saying that if even the top 10% of American basketball players or even football players played soccer (or even tennis), America would dominate on the world stage. I tend to agree.

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Anonymous wrote:Wrestling is super creepy and weird.

Second only to boxing in terms of how ugly it is. Followed by football and hockey. All too dangerous and not at all fun to watch.

I could not disagree more. Wrestling is far from ugly. It is a combat sport, but the intent of the sport is not violence (like football or boxing). The intent is to pin your opponent, not knock them unconscious.

Totally different

[Anonymous]

After my former HS Ohio wrestler husband told me how they would not wash their wrestling singlet to stink as much as possible to turn off their opponents, I saw just how 'different' wrestlers are.

Btw, Vision Quest was one of my all-time favorite movies in HS which is probably why I married a former wrestler. Lunatic Fringe. Lol

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Anonymous wrote:After my former HS Ohio wrestler husband told me how they would not wash their wrestling singlet to stink as much as possible to turn off their opponents, I saw just how 'different' wrestlers are.

Btw, Vision Quest was one of my all-time favorite movies in HS which is probably why I married a former wrestler. Lunatic Fringe. Lol

https://tvovermind.com/lunatic-fringe-red-rider-perfection-movie-vision-quest/

[Anonymous]

I would actually suspect gymnastics is even harder. There are only 15 teams.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wrestling is super creepy and weird.

Second only to boxing in terms of how ugly it is. Followed by football and hockey. All too dangerous and not at all fun to watch.

I could not disagree more. Wrestling is far from ugly. It is a combat sport, but the intent of the sport is not violence (like football or boxing). The intent is to pin your opponent, not knock them unconscious.

Totally different

Wrestling is an incredibly challenging sport. In 9th grade I was 105 pounds. That year was All State in cross country and went on to run 4:06 in the mile and went to college on athletic scholarship. State champion so it wasn’t like pursuing track was a mistake.

The wrestling coach invited me to a try out in 9th grade and I beat the varsity guy. I wasn’t that surprised since I just set the school chin-up record and was very strong for my size. The coach - who I respected - acknowledged my track talent but laid out the case why I would be a better wrestler. My track coach didn’t disagree with the wrestling data, but in the end wrestling was just brutally tough and difficult. Yes, I likely should have stood up to the challenge, especially in the Midwest where wrestling is valued, but the truth is I won a lot of races being relatively relaxed and enjoying it until kicking like crazy (I had speed and ran sprints as well) at the end. Wrestling required continual vigilance, even against an inferior opponent. Wrestlers are tough and I admire them tremendously. Only an effete cohort could find fault with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://usatodayhss.com/2016/how-hard-is-it-to-play-a-sport-in-college-or-the-pros-wonder-no-more

Only 2.7% of all wrestlers make it to NCAA competition.

#Lame. Hiw many kids actually even wrestle at all? It be easy compared to other sports where a jillion play and a jillion around here can't even play for their HS teams due to politics, too many bodies or they opt not to play for HS at all. The table only assumes only HS participants are the denominator.

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Anonymous wrote:Wrestling is not international

This may be the single most incorrect post in the history of the internet.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wrestling is super creepy and weird.

Second only to boxing in terms of how ugly it is. Followed by football and hockey. All too dangerous and not at all fun to watch.

I could not disagree more. Wrestling is far from ugly. It is a combat sport, but the intent of the sport is not violence (like football or boxing). The intent is to pin your opponent, not knock them unconscious.

Totally different

Wrestling is an incredibly challenging sport. In 9th grade I was 105 pounds. That year was All State in cross country and went on to run 4:06 in the mile and went to college on athletic scholarship. State champion so it wasn’t like pursuing track was a mistake.

The wrestling coach invited me to a try out in 9th grade and I beat the varsity guy. I wasn’t that surprised since I just set the school chin-up record and was very strong for my size. The coach - who I respected - acknowledged my track talent but laid out the case why I would be a better wrestler. My track coach didn’t disagree with the wrestling data, but in the end wrestling was just brutally tough and difficult. Yes, I likely should have stood up to the challenge, especially in the Midwest where wrestling is valued, but the truth is I won a lot of races being relatively relaxed and enjoying it until kicking like crazy (I had speed and ran sprints as well) at the end. Wrestling required continual vigilance, even against an inferior opponent. Wrestlers are tough and I admire them tremendously. Only an effete cohort could find fault with them.

WTF is “an effete cohort”? Who specifically are you denigrating here? Women? Gay people?

[Anonymous]

Wrestling is for small bozos

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wrestling is for small bozos

Lol. you would crap your pants before even thinking about saying that to a NCAA wrestler

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wrestling is for small bozos

Lol. you would crap your pants before even thinking about saying that to a NCAA wrestler

Looks pretty tough in a picture. But he’s probably 4 foot 11

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wrestling is for small bozos

Lol. you would crap your pants before even thinking about saying that to a NCAA wrestler

Looks pretty tough in a picture. But he’s probably 4 foot 11

You're my favorite troll. That's Olympian Gable Steveson. He's 6'1 and probably 260lbs in this picture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wrestling is super creepy and weird.

Second only to boxing in terms of how ugly it is. Followed by football and hockey. All too dangerous and not at all fun to watch.

I could not disagree more. Wrestling is far from ugly. It is a combat sport, but the intent of the sport is not violence (like football or boxing). The intent is to pin your opponent, not knock them unconscious.

Totally different

Wrestling is an incredibly challenging sport. In 9th grade I was 105 pounds. That year was All State in cross country and went on to run 4:06 in the mile and went to college on athletic scholarship. State champion so it wasn’t like pursuing track was a mistake.

The wrestling coach invited me to a try out in 9th grade and I beat the varsity guy. I wasn’t that surprised since I just set the school chin-up record and was very strong for my size. The coach - who I respected - acknowledged my track talent but laid out the case why I would be a better wrestler. My track coach didn’t disagree with the wrestling data, but in the end wrestling was just brutally tough and difficult. Yes, I likely should have stood up to the challenge, especially in the Midwest where wrestling is valued, but the truth is I won a lot of races being relatively relaxed and enjoying it until kicking like crazy (I had speed and ran sprints as well) at the end. Wrestling required continual vigilance, even against an inferior opponent. Wrestlers are tough and I admire them tremendously. Only an effete cohort could find fault with them.

WTF is “an effete cohort”? Who specifically are you denigrating here? Women? Gay people?

DCUM trolls who hate athletics. (By the way I have known very tough wrestlers who happen to be gay). The DCUM type trolls disliked me because my academic achievements were even better than my athletic ones, and it disrupted their dumb athlete narrative. I was the editor of a top 10 law school law review, and at the very top of the class, one of my editorial board colleagues informed me how I was resented for my athletic background and to be aware of this reality - he was right. And there is a group here on DCUM who dislikes athletes and doesn’t remotely understand them. Typical shallow thinking to assume that gays or women were the target here (my single mother was one of the best athletes I ever came across).