The season is here! Time to get started!

Today (Oct 10th) was the first official day of the 2013-2014 NCAA wrestling season, and let me tell you Lehigh Wrestling welcomed the season with open arms. We have been looking forward to today since the end of last season. For the veterans on the team the first whistle of practice represented a fresh start, as Coach Santoro said today "the past is the past, there is nothing you or anyone else can do about it.. learn from it, grow from it, and let it go." For the freshman, today was the first step toward becoming a National Champion. We have tremendously talented & driven freshman and sophomore classes, we expect big things from each of them this season as they step into the limelight of Grace Hall. The best part is that THEY expect more out of themselves and their teammates than any of us could expect from 18 and 19 year olds. 

This week has been hectic. Personally I feel like this week has flown by and I have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off, but from now that is the new normal. We all signed up for these non-stop weeks-- getting up early and collapsing into bed as soon as our homework is finished. In order to be the best you have to prepare for competition better than everyone else, and I promise you that we are going not only out work but out smart our competition this year.  Like Coach said, last season is in the past.. it is forever in the record books and there is nothing that we can do about that.

However, we can use our 'unfinished business" of last year to drive us toward the top of the podium stand this year. We have been described as "young", "unexperienced" and so on and so forth... but ya know what---we don't care, because although we are "young" we are also really freaken talented. I will be the first to say that you cant win on talent alone, but when you combine the talent on my team with their drive for success, you have a pretty deadly combination. Although we have been dubbed as being "unexperienced" we are also passionate. Passionate about being the best, the very best. 

We are striving for excellence, for perfection. Starting today we are moving forward and we aren't stopping until March 22, 2014. The first whistle of the NCAA Championships is 161 days away, and we will be ready. 

One Team. One Heartbeat. Go Hawks!