Jace's Wrestling Season

Jace just finished his 2nd wrestling season with Uintah's Tiger League. This year Jace turned out to be a good wrestler. He went undefeated in his dual meets, took 2nd place at Altamonts tournament and today he took first place at the Vernal Tiger League tournament.

Jace with his 2nd and 1st place medals.

Below is Jace wrestling his championship match and shooting a single leg take down on his opponent.

Zack and I coaching Jace. I absolutely love the sport of wrestling; however it makes me so uptight and nervous to watch Jace. After todays tournament I asked Jace if he would rather play basketball next year. He said, "maybe. Why?" I told him I don't think I can handle another season of wrestling.

This was Jace's last dual meet. The person he was suppose to wrestle did not show up, so one of the Dad's on the other team grabbed his son to wrestle Jace. When Jace saw how small the kid was he was to wrestle he looked up at us a gave a smirk. The poor kids dad was not happy when Jace pinned him right off the bat.
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Altamont, Utah Tournament

Early in the season Jace and I drove to the small town of altamont to wrestle in their tournament. The Uintah basin (from Duchesne to Vernal) takes wrestling very serious. Jace wrestled some tough kids and ended up taking second. His second to last match was back and forth the whole time and within the last 20 seconds Jace ended up pinning his kid. He looked up at me after his match and we both gave each other the look of "man you got LUCKY"! That match got him into the championship round, and as I was explaining that if he won his next match then he would take first, he stopped me and said, "does that mean I will get a medal"? He was happy when I told him that no matter if he won or lost he would get a medal at this point.
The video below if his first kid he wrestled at the Altamont tourny. The matches got really tough after this kid and so my video and picture taking skill went downhill rapidly.