1. How old were you when you started wrestling?
14
2. Why did you start wrestling? Did you have a family member or someone else that was close to you who had wrestled and encouraged you to do so? Or did you start on your own?
A friend encouraged me to go out for football (I never played organized sports before), and the jv football coach, who was starting a wrestling team at my high school, convinced me to go out for wrestling.
3. What city and state are you from originally? Did you live in an urban area when you started wrestling or was it more country/suburban? Tell me a little about the demographics of the area you lived in when you began wrestling.
Brookline, Mass (with which you are familiar

). Semi-affluent suburb of Boston.