Treshock A State Champion
This essay by Tamarac Head Wrestling Coach Eric Roadcap describes the feelings shown in the picture above, from one who knows how hard Bobby Treshock worked to get to this moment:
So many emotions are captured in this one photo. I can’t thank you enough Jen Dickenson for capturing it, you have amazing talent.
It has been a long road for this young man. Bobby is the first five-time Section 2 place finisher in Tamarac school history. He is the first 4 time Class C finalist and three time champ.
Bobby is the first Tamarac wrestler to obtain 200 career wins, ending his career with an amazing 218 wins to only 43 losses. Bobby now holds the most career wins in school history. The majority of those losses came in his first two years when he was in seventh and eighth grade.
Bobby wrestles all year long all over the country. He puts in more work in one year than most would put in over a four year high school wrestling career. He is also an honor roll student taking advanced classes. He also helps our youth Junior Bengals.
With all the work that he’s been putting in since seventh grade, every year – the running, the lifting, the wrestling, the overall mental grind of training hours day in and day out, to come up short and watch kids that he beat earlier in the year go to the state tournament that he belonged in. He had to sit on the sideline and watch this tournament from afar the last two years. So many kids today would never have kept going the way he did.
I know he was mentally hitting a wall. I know he was asking himself why am I doing this. I know he was saying to himself, I’ve put in the work and the reward is not there. I know he questioned himself, “Is this sport for me?” Because that’s what the sport does to you. It can put you on top of the world and as quick as it put you there, it’ll drag you back down if you let it.
It was close to dragging him down but it didn’t. He kept pushing on the grind and finally he got what was coming to him. What he earned. What nobody can ever take from him. The first male athlete in Tamarac school history to win a state title. Nothing in this world is guaranteed. You can work harder than anybody and never have a reward. Bobby Treshock lived that the last two years. The only guarantee he would’ve had if he stopped working, would be no chance of attaining anything. He chose to keep grinding and he chose to push through. And he got what was his. It was a pleasure to coach you, and my honor to know you! The bar has been set for Tamarac wrestling! Thank you!!! Now on to Greco and Freestyle, Bobby.
Go get your national title now!!!!