Wrestling in Hays

Friday night I set my alarm for 5:50 am. Jake had to weigh-in by 7:30 so this would be plenty of time. We needed to leave the house by 6:45. I woke up at 6:35! I didn't turn the alarm on! SH**! is the first thing out of my mouth, what a way to start the day. We actually made it to Hays by 7:25 after stopping for coffee and money, and weigh-in wasn't even close to being over, ugh, if I knew, I could have slowed down a bit.

Jake's first match he was pinned in the 2nd period. He had a 5 man round robin - that means 4 matches wrestling each person in the weight class once. The second match wasn't better, he was pinned in the 1st. The third match, he was pinned in the very last second of the first period. And his fourth and final match he was pinned in the first 15 seconds! It was a long, hard day. Jake handles it well. Tries hard. No tears. No fits. Just matter-of-fact. Chris and I are very proud. None of these wrestlers are in our District, so he wont see them again until/unless he makes it to State.

On that note, Jake is trying for State. This weekend is Sub-District in Phillipsburg. We don't think there will be more than 3 in his weight at Sub-District. The top 4 go on to District in Garden City and then top 4 from there go on to State in Topeka the next weekend. (John & Amy, will you have us March 27-28 weekend, maybe?)

On a different note, Brett is going out for Jr. High Track this year! He has a meeting after school today about it. I'm very excited.