Karl Sherrill

I wasn't a great soccer player, but I was good enough to get to hang out with my buddies who also played.

And so I played soccer.

So my freshman year of high school, played soccer.

Wasn't great, but nobody cared because it was freshman soccer and nobody was great.

So big deal.

Go back out and at the end of my freshman soccer season, wrestling started.

Well, I had never wrestled.

I didn't know what wrestling was.

I'd never done it.

But I was also a 97 pound tiny little kid in high school as a freshman.

So football wasn't an option.

Soccer wasn't great for my size.

Wrestling became this thing that had this ability to put you in a category where you're competing with similar people, right?

Like weight divisions.

And so I went and wrestled, fell in love with it, was pretty good at it my freshman year.

The wrestling coach was also the soccer coach, same guy.

And so we show up, I show up my sophomore year to soccer and

I go out for the team.

I'm at spring practice, and the soccer coach comes over to me about two days into practice, and he basically says, hey, if you want to play JV soccer, most of your buddies are going to be up on the varsity this year.

If you want to play JV soccer and you want to sit on the bench most of the year and not play a whole lot, you are more than welcome to do that if that's some experience that you think you want.