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Opinion
Xavier High School
Wrestling is still an Olympic sport Ten years ago, my family became a wrestling family when my brother hit the mat for the first time at the age of four. Since then, I have attended hundreds of wrestling meets, not only as a sister, but also a manager, photographer, and a cheerleader. Wrestling is a huge part of not only my life, but also my family’s. Every four years, we gather around the TV in August and cheer on the USA wrestling team in the Olympic games. On February 12, the Olympic committee broke many hearts around the world when they released the news that wrestling may not be in the 2020 Olympic games. Wrestling has been in the Olympic games since the very beginning. The committee’s reason to remove wrestling from the games was that it did not draw in as many viewers as other sports. Wrestling used to just be a way to show which man is stronger and (therefore better) during ancient roman times, but now it is a sport that demands the most discipline and endurance of all the Olympic sports. Now wrestling might not be in the Olympics because not enough people want to watch it? On February 16, four days
our support of Olympic wrestling. Around 20,000 have already signed up to save this amazing sport. So Saints, I ask this of you: please take two minutes of your time and fill out the basic information on letskeepwrestling. com, because you will be helping to save a sport that many people around the world know and love.
Meghan Gerke A&E Writer Junior Nick Drahozal pins his opponent in a wrestling match. Wrestling enjoys a wide audience in many states across the country. Meghan Gerke Photo after the committee released the news, the Wells Fargo Arena was sold out for the 26th year in a row for the Iowa High School State Wrestling Finals. The finals were also broadcasted on KCRG 9.2, and many more people, including myself, tuned in to watch the exciting action. There were over 18,000 people watching and that only was a high school wrestling competition in Iowa! Some people who agree with the Olympic committee decision did so because they do not understand the rules or the scoring system of wrestling. The scoring system is a little hard to
understand at some times in a match, like when the wrestlers are given back points or riding points. The rules, they also can get a bit confusing when a wrestler gets a caution for starting too soon or gets pulled out of the ring. An easy way to still enjoy wrestling when you do not quite understand all of its rules is by watching each wrestler’s intensity and strength. I, like many others, such as Dan Gable and Mark Ironside, Olympic wrestlers from Iowa, am trying to spread the word about wrestling and trying to keep it in the Olympics by signing the Let’s Keep Wrestling petition to show
Freshmen, I won’t leave you out. Most of you are trying to plan out your next three years, so that you can be where you want to when you’re in our place. Sophomores and juniors are most likely just starting the college process. We’re all on the same journey, just in different places. We’re all rushing towards our future, full speed ahead. We don’t want anyone or anything to slow us down. There is a point however when most of us hit one side or the other of the time spectrum. We want to be young again, or we want to be years older. We want to be anywhere other than where we are now. For most of my high school year I have been anxiously awaiting college. Heck, I bought my dorm room bedspread the spring of my junior year. I have a bad habit of getting ahead of myself. As my time as a high school student and my time living at home come to a close, I realize maybe I was going a little too fast. Instead of spending time with friends, I was researching admission requirements. Instead
of going out to eat with my family, I was making a calendar of scholarship deadlines. I’m not telling you to shirk all of your scholarly responsibilities to go off and have a good time, but I am saying that it’s important to find a happy medium. The Kairos retreat has the right idea. By covering the clocks, it truly forces us to live in the moment and focus on the present. So the next time you find yourself looking four months ahead on the calendar and stressing about something that’s far, far away, take a deep breath. Look at your calendar. There will never again be another March 7, 2013, so why waste it? Make every day special, and it’s guaranteed your future will be a happy one, without regrets.
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T h e r e i s something to be said for the old cliché “living in the moment.” Although I can honestly say I would never in a million years utter the phrase “YOLO,” that first saying has really got me thinking lately. Most of the past few weeks for me have been focused on planning for college. Scholarship days, essays, interviews, research… I thought the process would ease up on me once I got my acceptance letters, but this has not been the case at all. Between getting ready for next year and struggling to carry a heavy homework workload, I haven’t had my usual time to sit down and reflect like I normally do, until now. I know I’m not the only person at Xavier that’s felt a time crunch lately. I join the rest of my senior peers in the last stretch before final admission and scholarship deadlines, as well as trying to keep our grades up so we can finish our last semester strong.
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