MMACHS Junior Learns Determination from Wrestling

Learning determination and discipline from wrestling, MMACHS junior Colton Bonner is competing in his fourth season of wrestling.

By MMACHS Juniors Aria Dennis, Bo Frasier, Cayden Barker, and Gavin Hapney

Learning determination and discipline from wrestling, MMACHS junior Colton Bonner is competing in his fourth season of wrestling.

Colton originally wanted to wrestle to get fit and ready for high school football. He was also a bit bigger earlier in his life and thought this was a good way to lose some weight and gain muscle.

He wrestled for one year at Heritage Middle School, and currently wrestles for Rocky Mountain High school.

Colton said the hardest thing about wrestling is the conditioning and getting ready for matches mentally. "If it’s a pretty tough match and you are going into overtime, overtime is pretty hard,” he explained.

Colton’s favorite way of taking someone down in wrestling is high crotches, but he does not get to do them as often. He also does a lot of throw-bys and slide-bys, which he says are his normal ways of taking opponents down.

In wrestling, they have duals and tournaments. They have about five duals a year, which is where they go to another school or a school comes to them. For tournaments, they have one to two a year, where many teams compete. These can take place at the Ford Idaho Center or where the Steelheads play.

“I got 4th at my first tournament this year, and I had a pretty bad year this year honestly. Hopefully I can bounce back at districts and state,” he said.

Throughout Colton’s wrestling career, he has learned many things both on and off the mat. One thing he really emphasized was the discipline he uses outside of wrestling that he learned from matches. He also said to just have fun.

“If you’re super crazy serious about wrestling, it becomes really unfun. But when you’re actually willing to have fun and mess around, that’s when it’s fun,” he explained.

Colton says that he loves his coaches. They are tough on him, but they are also fun to be around, and he really enjoys wrestling. He is glad to be a wrestler and hopes to “pin” the competition.