National High School Coaches Association NHSCA National Duals

We oftentimes find out about our grandson’s sports games, meets, and tournaments after the fact. Over the Memorial Day weekend I got a response to a text from our daughter in law about an entirely different subject.  She said she and our grandson were in Virginia Beach at the National High School Coaches Association National Wrestling Duals. And, he wasn’t observing, he was participating. So I went to the website to find out about the event and if we could track his progress. There is a Flowrestling website that you can actually watch the matches - for a fee, or just enter the site, find the match you are looking for, and watch match progress on a scoreboard. But you need to have an idea about the scheduled time, weight class, name of the team, etc. We were able to catch one of the bouts and it doesn’t last very long and they move quickly to the next one. On top of that there are literally about 100 matches going on at one time. There were thousands of participants from all over the country. Wrestling is a very difficult sport to watch - I grew up on my brother the pitcher playing baseball. Wrestling is quite the sport for learning how to lose gracefully and pretty much you are on your own. Regardless it’s a great experience and there are many other activities our grandson has been exposed to - from mountain climbing to canoeing, baseball and track. That makes for a great all around background and keeps him very busy. It’s fun to see how he is progressing and growing both scholastically and athletically. As long as he keeps being a nice kid and is happy, that’s all we care about.