Steve Price was concerned through the season about the lack of support his wrestling team had received within the halls at Central High School. It seemed to the coach that few outside the wrestling family cared.
There are bound to be a few more on board after the Pounders clinched the state A/AA duals wrestling championship in Franklin Saturday night. It is the school’s first state championship of any kind in two decades.
It came with teamwork from freshman 130-pounder Logan Griffith, who got a pin in the deciding match Saturday night, to seniors Antonio Brooks, Alex Williams and Terry Thompson.
“It has been a ‘we’ rather than ‘me’ attitude from the start,” said Price, who has beat the bushes and walked the halls for the past three years recruiting any guy who even resembled a wrestler.
That title also came with a coach’s brutal honesty about what he expected, what the kids should expect and what each had to do in order for the Pounders to attain their goals.