11/14/22 Coach Is Putting The Brakes On The Heavy?

     Wife and I were just talking last week that this is crazy, running from one sport to the next and Mijo hasn't really had any time to just sit back and relax.  The playoff game was just this past Friday, and the first big wrestling meet is this weekend, starting Friday morning for JV and going into Saturday for the varsity kids that qualify.

    Mijo is technically not on the injured reserve, per doctor's orders, but he still has a little pain and discomfort.  It was important enough for him to try and play the final game of his high school career with his teammates, but this is the first wrestling meet of the season, there is a whole bunch in front of him.  Surprisingly, to us, his coach has suggested he and a couple of other kids, his lineman buddy, who is the heavyweight back-up, to both sit this tournament out.  It would be a shame to try and rush into the season and hurt himself and loose the rest of the season.  This sounds like a good plan for a couple of reasons.

    By resting this meet, we then go into the week of Thanksgiving break, so he then gets another whole week off.  By the time Thanksgiving is past, we will be 7 weeks past the high ankle sprain incident, which is more in line with the real time for that type of injury to heal.  For a normal civilian, he is ok.  He has been walking without any brace or boot the past week, going on two weeks, but for wrestling, he found out during practice, it is still tender.  He was telling me he got pinned by his 220-sparring partner, and that never happened last year, so obviously, his ankle has to be hurting him.  He said they did a move, he tried stepping on his foot and it gave him a sharp pain, which he didn't plant solidly, like he would normally have, and his buddy pinned him.  

    I'm sure he will be ok with a couple more weeks of rest, maybe he will need to keep wrapping his leg with tape as well, so I like this time off idea.  I asked him who will represent the team at 285 (heavyweight), and he said it would be a freshman which will be tough, but it's one of the freshmen that was pushed into a starting role as a varsity lineman, so the kid is getting plenty of experience off of Mijo's injuries.  I might have to buy this kid a hoodie too.