After winning his third medal and second state championship, Soddy-Daisy’s Tucker Russo is taking a partially-enforced break from wrestling.
“Coach (Jim Higgins) is telling me to chill out, take a little break,” the 145-pounder said.
Except for Baylor and McCallie wrestlers who are preparing for the prep school nationals in a week or so, resting, recuperating and reenergizing is the story for most area wrestlers.
“We’ll take off at least three weeks,” Higgins said. “Some of the kids will go into free style and Greco and then that will roll over into folkstyle (traditional) stuff we’ll do in the summer.”
For Russo, though, there are thoughts of a third state title, the possibility of wrestling in college and maintaining a lifestyle he finally embraced fully in the midst of the 2014-15 school season.