Senior Dylan Cottrell, a two-time NCAA qualifier who now competes at 165 pounds for the Mountaineers, will give fans an inside look at his final semester as a student-athlete in a bi-weekly blog. In the first edition of Short Time, he talks about how he got his start in the sport of wrestling.
I started wrestling at six years old for the local club, Roane Lightning. My mother was the one that wanted me to wrestle because her brothers had done so growing up. She decided that since my dad was out of town for work, it would be a great opportunity to take me to my first practice since my father wasn’t huge on wrestling at first.