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Lucas Jackett
by: Matt Fields
Wrestling can be an ing on his friends. bringing Lucas back for
The sport is not without more. Millington head var-
incredibly difficult and de- sity wrestling coach, Greg
manding sport, filled with its challenges though, as Hudie, shared this memory,
challenges and obstacles Lucas acknowledged. “Run- “Lucas is a great addition
for every competitor. Those ning (in practice). My legs to our program! Some of
challenges are not enough hurt bad when I run. My my best coaching moments
to scare away Millington friends say it’s ok just walk in my career include Lu-
sophomore, Lucas Jackett. don’t stop. That helps me cas. The best memory was
Lucas is in his fourth year of keep going,” said Lucas. in (junior high) when we
wrestling, and 2nd year on Losing too, can be a diffi- wrestled Freeland and the
the Millington varsity wres- cult challenge for an athlete coaches son, Jacob Ott,
tling team. When asked what as competitive as Lucas, wrestled with Lucas for a
attracted him to the sport of “When I lose, it makes me few periods and in the third
wrestling, his answer was feel sad and mad. The other period was pinned by Lucas.
simple, “I like wrestling and team’s coaches tell me good The crowd was overwhelm-
my friends were wrestling”. job. That makes me feel bet- ing with noise for Lucas the
Lucas added that his favorite ter. My teammates tell me it’s whole match and erupted
things about wrestling were ok I lost my match. Every- when his hand was raised.
winning matches and cheer- body loses sometimes.” The overwhelming cheer of
the crowd was absolutely
The wins though keep for both wrestlers and it was
definitely an emotional mo-
ment to see what kind of
young men are in our sport
(Freeland wrestler - Jacob
Ott) and to see how much
excitement and joy Lucas
felt having his hand raised
in victory! I think he has
been hooked on wrestling
since that moment.”
For any young athlete
out there wanting to take
the chance and try a sport
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