I probably should have posted this in the Misc. Wrestling forum, but that does not get as much traffic so forgive me if this is a bit off topic from college wrestling.
I am writing an article about wrestling for a newspaper and I need to take a quick demographic survey as the basis of one of the concepts in my article.
If you have a few free minutes, could you answer the questions below for me? Yes, I can
1. How old were you when you started wrestling?I was 12
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?My brother wrestled, I was pretty small and football wasn't really an option for me at that point. I also got sick of baseball and soccer.
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. I was born in Phoenix, AZ but only started wrestling when I moved to St. Louis. It was a suburb outside of St. Louis in a city called Chesterfield, MO. Lots of soccer being played here, wrestling was fairly popular. Sammie Henson and I are the same age so that lets you know as to the time frame. I am 37 now.
Thanks for your help! You can either email the answers to me at dhobeika@gmail.com or if you don't feel comfortable doing that, I guess you can post them on here.
There you go.
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1)little kid rolling around the house with Dad.....7th grade wresling class and intermurals(12); 9th grade interscholastic (14)
2) Seemed natural after football season(and I was (am) short and had(have) no hand/eye coordination so BB isn't an option.(I tryed to play BB with at the H.S. gym with a bunch of guys 20years ago on Sundays and I found out afterwards that they were convinced that I'd been a hockey player in my youth.....:-) )
3)Downers Grove, Ill.............bedroom community 20 miles west of the loop..........about 17,000 or so back then
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1. 7 years old
2. 3rd grade did it for a gym class or two (boys and girls.) No one in my family wrestled before. Dad played football in high school.
3. Cedar Rapids, IA
2-I was a big 9th grader, 6'1" and 189. The varisity football coach approached me at towards the end of the season and informed me in no uncertain terms that if I wanted to play for him again the following year that I had to go out for the wrestling team. He was good friends with the wrestling coach and they had no HVY so I was conscripted. In hindsight I am grateful to have been given the chance as I had never wrestled before and I took to it like a fish to water.
3-Grew up in Yonkers, NY. Moved 40 miles north in jr high. Still urban mix but smaller city.
1. 13 years old - 9th grade.
2. Didn't have a chance of making the basketball team and there were no cuts for wrestling.
3. Wakefield MA. Very suburban.
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Wrestling was a foreign concept to most people and wasn't popular at all in the area. In fact, when I started wrestling, the sport had recently been reinstated at my high school after something like a 20 year hiatus.
We wrestled Cambridge in 1986, so the 20 year hiatus is a bit off
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2 Football coach made me
3-Indianapolis .Indiana -suburb
I remember in the eighth grade i brought a book on wrestling home with me and my grandma through a fit -She didn't want me to become '' A Homosexual''-it was funny as hell-she called the school , my coach -everyone -but i stuck it out -I probably would have quit and played basketball if I weren't so rebellious.
Everyone in Indiana is a pretty decent b-ball player -especially if you are poor -we used to play outdoors in the winter and warm ourselves between games on Jerry Fish's incenerator .
Glad to see so many football coaches encouraging participation. The local FB coach threatened to bench anyone that wrestled and it nearly killed the sport. Participation was down to 18 guys at one time until the FB coach got run over by a UPS truck, smashed a hip and left on disability. The new coach is 180 from the old and now the numbers are back up. We even had one go to the state meet last year. It's been a long 15 year hump for a team that when from No.3 in the state and 7 state champs in 10 years to near elimination of the sport in the span of 5 years.
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