Picture of the Week - 1/14/2021

 Wanna know the definition of sitting on pins and needles?

1) Have a senior who gave up football after 12 years of playing to focus on wrestling

2) Watch that senior set a goal to drop 30 pounds - and crush it - so that he can be stronger and faster than anyone expected

3) Make sure that senior is finishing his high school career in the middle of a global pandemic

4) For fun, have the number of positive Covid cases, hospitalizations, and positivity rates hit all time highs during wrestling season

5) Add in a tumultuous transition of power at both the national and state levels after a hard and emotional political battle

6) Ensure you are involved in all the team details by running the team booster club

7) Give yourself bonus points if you have to make decisions about running region tournaments as the host school while the ground constantly shifts

8) Complicate matters by trying to follow school and athletic policies that continues to change - and aren't written down

9) Add some interest by acknowledging that this year's high school team is probably the best one put together at the school to date

10) Care so much about the wrestlers on the team that it hurts to think about all the ways things could go wrong

11) If you happen to be a Type-A personality with a Blue temperament - call me for a glass of wine!

This weekend is the West Wrestling team's Region Duals championship.  The team will be competing for a 3-peat championship in Georgia Region 6-7A.  For anyone not super familiar with high school regions, classifications, or wrestling...  7A is the classification for the biggest schools in Georgia and I would not be the first person to say that Region 6 is the toughest region for wrestling (top to bottom) in the state.  There are - of course - amazing programs in different classifications.  There are also great programs in 7A in other regions.  But region 6-7A is packed with great coaching and talented wrestlers.

West is currently ranked at the top of Georgia Region 6-7A.

We will prove we should be there this weekend when we go for the JV title on Friday night and the Varsity title on Saturday.  Provided, of course, that Covid and quarantine don't screw everything up.

Pray with me - please - that we can keep this together for 4.5 more weeks.  In the meantime, I'll be sitting over here on my pins and needles and trying not to give myself a stress-induced ulcer thinking about all the what-if scenarios that will face these guys over the next 4.5 weeks.

Here's a picture from Spencer's senior night a few weeks ago.  Stay tuned for updates and results...