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Show School and vJ Home fe 7 by Dr. Daryl J. McCarty r' Executive Secretary 3 Utah Education Association w Wrestling may require more of a youth than any other sport. Many high school wrestlers wrest-lers fast for days to maintain main-tain their weight at the correct cor-rect level. They endure weeks of dreary weight-lifting, weight-lifting, running and wrestling, wrest-ling, wrestling, wrestling. Unusual is the wrestler who makes it through a season without some serious or painful injury. One big reason rea-son they do it is that someday some-day they may win or place high in the state wrestling tournament. Recently, during the state tournament, a wrestler in a blue uniform consulted the scorekeeper in a closely contested match. Theytalk-ed Theytalk-ed for more than a minute. The coaches of both wrestlers wrest-lers approached the scoring table and discussed the matter. mat-ter. The wrestler wearing red knelt on the mat waiting for the match to resume, un- aware of the matter under discussion. The scoreboard changed several times durlngthe discussion. dis-cussion. Now it showed 5-4, In favor of the kid wearing red. His opponent walked over to him, pointed to the scoreboard, and asked if the score were correct. The youth in red thought through the events of the match. "That's wrong," he said. He agreed that it should be 4- 3 in his opponent's favor, and told his coach. Soon the scoreboard was changed to 4-3, in favor of the wrestler in blue. The match ended a few seconds later, with the wrestler in blue winning, 5- 3. A superb wrestler, he went on to win the state championship in his weight division. The red-clad wrestler, asked what he was thinking when he spoke up for his opponent, said: "I was thinking think-ing I didn't want to steal two points from him.' The desire to be honest won out over a four year goal of winninga state wrestling wrest-ling championship. Such an attitude is developed over many years of observingand being with people parents, friends, relatives, neighbors and teachers. All are part of such development. Congratulations to those who helped this wrestler learn what winning is really about. |
