Gut Check--2 Day Tournament #3 of 4

 For our last weekend of the break, we booked yet another 2 day tournament.  (One where they had WAY too many wrestlers for the number of mats they were running....so it took FOREVER again.) 

When you start a tournament, there are really usually 2 outcomes.  Elimination or placing.  But all wrestling parents know there is a 3rd option...a trip to the ER.  This weekend we got to experience all 3.  

Sarah wrestled strong and tough, but in the end she went 1 and 2.  

The whole team! 

Proof that she was beasting the Hermiston girl, but then they caught her in their classic head and arm.  Boo. 

Then she beat a White River girl

She was eliminated when she lost a close one on day 2 (when I didn't take out my camera.) 

Libby decided she wanted to make the tournament harder on herself and wrestled 110 instead of 105.  (She could have easily made 105, because with the growth allowance and the 1 lb. allowance it would have been 108, but she decided it wasn't worth it.) Her day 1 went really well.  A quick pin.  Day 2 started with another quick pin. Then she teched a girl that we went to camp with a couple of years ago.   Her 4th match was against the eventual champ.  She didn't get pinned.
Then a few seconds into her next match, it happened.  The girl threw her--and Libby posted her arm.  Rookie mistake. 

Yeah, gross.  She just collapsed and the girl pinned her. Libby was most concerned that we get her off the mat so she wouldn't be "that girl" who held up the tournament needing medical care.  So we got her to the trainer table.  They iced her and tried to get her to calm down.  It was scary.  We were really afraid of a season ending injury like a fracture or tear.  

After she calmed a bit the trainer wrapped her (pretty confident it wasn't broken) and sent us to go.  Libby wanted to stay and watch Izzy wrestle for 3rd/4th.  So we did.  Libby was hilarious.  Jokes, fun, silly.  And wearing her medal like a badge of honor along with her sling. So thankful for these friends of hers that make her so happy too. 

Then we headed to Children's hospital.  Thankfully we were only about 20 minutes away.  The ER folks were great.  And our ministering brother Conner and his wife Chunie (our YW pres) came and met us there.  They are both doctors, so they were also subtly checking things out along with giving Libby a blessing.  The Xray shows no fracture.  Hooray!  So a sprain that will keep her out for a bit...we'll see an ortho doctor ASAP and maybe get a PRP so we can get her back on the mat ASAP.  

This girl is at 97 wins as a Shorewood wrestler.  She's amazing (and was the last one of our strong wrestlers standing who hadn't injury defaulted out of a match this year...) But we'll make the comeback.  Right!?  Right. 

Love this girl and her determination.  (Also, sidenote, she DEEP cleaned her room all by herself on NY Day.  It took major coercion to get her started.  But then she killed it!  So clean.  Wow.) 

Coaching with Derek isn't always easy (there are plenty of logistical issues, haha.). But this opportunity to work with my kids and husband in this way is so amazing.   I don't love that I'm going back to school EXHAUSTED.  And that we have Kelso this weekend (and that Libby won't get to wrestle there for her senior season) but it's worth it.  A season of sacrifice that is 100% worth it.