Three 3rd Place Nortons!

 Between last weekend and this weekend, we had 3 Nortons wrestling for district championships.  

Ben, freshman year.

Sarah, junior year.

Libby, freshman in college.

I am so proud of my kids! They worked hard and wrestled so well--all taking 3rd!  (It's so great to end on a win.) 

Ben has had a great season.  He's learned so much, and gotten so tough.  He missed a few weeks due to stitches (see Christmas Eve post...) but came back into the lineup strong and didn't look back.  He only lost in the district tournament to the eventual champ (one of his Rhinos Elite wrestling partners.) 

He pulled a couple of his matches from Matboss and added score keeping so you can watch.  So much fun: First Win 

3rd Place Match

Sarah had such a rocky season.  She had a hard time with her meds this year, and ended up puking more than wrestling.  It was so frustrating.  We finally pulled her off most of her meds and she wrestled so strong at districts.  She also only lost to the eventual champion.  I'm sharing my favorite video from her tournament.  She made a mistake and ended up on her back--but she didn't give up!  The book manuscript I'm working on is called Reversal.  This move Sarah executes is almost just like the reversal described in my book.  So proud of her! (Also, I was SO sick last week.  I wore a mask to districts, and finally went to Urgent Care the next day for antibiotics.  Started feeling better but still climbing out of the illness.  So glad I made it to the end of the season before I went down, but I went down HARD.) 

Girls coaching staff this year--It's been so much fun working with Nate & Brady this year. 

Libby has done so much learning in her first college season.  They've gone to a lot of tournaments with 4 years schools--so she's wrestled some tough opponents.  This was her first 2 year school only tournament.  She has been struggling to figure out the best way to maintain her weight at school--so she was cutting coming into the day.  Her first match was really rough.  She looked like she was nervous and outmatched.  We watched it on the livestream before we left for the temple.  Then after the temple (thankfully she had a bye in the consolation round so we didn't miss any while in the temple), she turned it on.  We watched her next match in the temple parking lot.  Win!  Then she beat her teammate, and kept on winning.  Her 2nd to last match was against the girl she lost to in her first match of the day.  I was so proud of her--it was a close match, but she came back and won it!  I can't figure out how to pull her match off of Flo--but trust me, it was a great day.

We hope that this secures a spot for Libby for Nationals--we already bought our plane tickets--so we're hoping! There are 2 other SW alums wrestling for sure, so we're hyped!  I also just can't wait to see and hug my girl. 

Einstein season started this week--and we've got State this week. So we're not done yet.  But we're almost there!