Searcy (LP) Alliance, teamwork, sweat, and blood are some things you may gain or lose if you were to join the Searcy High School Wrestling team. Training is the key to any sport but for wrestling it is more than just beating another person or another team, it is about getting to know your teammates on a whole other level. People on the wrestling team take pride in calling themselves a part of the team and a Lion Wrestler.

Wrestling practice here at our school, has been  proven to inevitably test ones limits.  Practice is something that will truly grow and makes the team perform at its finest. According to senior, Devon King, the practices, “last for four hours everyday, and the match only lasts for six minutes. Regardless of the temperature, we have on three layers of clothes just for the additional weight.” So yes, practice is hard but it is well worth it. It is what gets you to your full potential if you do it the correct way and always being the best you can be. These boys  deal with these long practices, and hard matches not only to win for themselves, but for their team.

While practice is a huge role in how good or bad you are at in your particular sport, like other sports wrestling is not about accomplishing something totally on your own. Surrounding yourself with teammates holds the same importance, if not more,  as the actual practice. This is because teams are in the same position, as opposed to the role the coach and the teammates play. This role helps the team bond, and produces a more sibling like role in the family that is created.

To many people, sports are just sports, but for King the relationship he has with wrestling is different. King states,”I have spent four years in this sport and it is the hardest thing I have ever done, but I have loved every second of it.” Through the vigorous training for success and the team building implemented in those same practices, the wrestling team makes gains on and off the mat.