We the coaching staff at Southridge High School set high expectations concerning your ability to wrestle. We will ask and expect you to work hard to improve your technique, your physical strength and endurance, your mental discipline, and your overall integrity as a young American. 

Never give up, don’t ever mentally give in to your opponent, and always try to score one more point. If you don't give in and let them break you mentally then you have still accomplished what many others have failed to do and that is what you can take away from this sport and take advantage of for the rest of you life. The will to win and the attitude to always give your best effort no matter what, is an important ingredient of having a successful life.

In competitive, one on one, hand-to-hand combat the person with the most mental discipline and the one that has the most will to win usually will do just that, win. Don't ever let your opponent whip you, they might beat you but don't ever let them whip you.

What would you prefer that we didn't coach you, didn’t teach you basics, didn't make you get in shape, didn't care if you were a good human being and respected others. I really don't think so and if you do think that way then it's time for an attitude change.

Anyone can take the easy way out and skip practice, be lazy on drills, daydream instead of develop mental discipline. It takes a different kind of person that will push themselves to always work harder, concentrate throughout the entire practice and really become a student of the sport. When you go to practice don't just show up, really show up and make something of it. Work like a champion and good things will happen. Remember that you should never under no circumstances stay the same, in other words always work to get better both physically and mentally.

Just fight until the end and lay it all on the line, what do you have to lose. Don't ever quit.