02/18/2026
This post has taken me a little while to write. 🤍
My last WRESTLING MOM post. 🤼♀️
Not every story has a fairytale ending, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t one of your all time favorite stories. ✨
After 15 years, the laces were untied, the headgear taken off, and our bleacher seats were packed up.
I am closing one of my favorite chapters of my life.
The meal prep. 🍗🥦
The early bus drop offs. 🚍
Driving through blizzards. ❄️
Weight cuts. ⚖️
Endless practices. ⏳
The anticipation, the adrenaline, the pride. ❤️
But this was never just about wins or losses.
It was about watching my boys grow into young men who know how to fight for something.
Who know how to lose with dignity and win with humility.
Who understand discipline, sacrifice, and resilience in a way only this sport can teach. 💪
The final match wasn’t the ending we imagined.
But one tournament does not define a decade’s long journey.
It does not define a legacy built on showing up, over and over again, when it was hard.
If I’m honest, I’m grieving. 💔
Wrestling mom wasn’t just something I did. It became part of who I was.
The nerves before every whistle.
The way I held my breath until the match was over (pretty sure i almost blacked out once or twice!).
The pride that swelled in my chest watching them. 💙🖤
Some stories end with confetti.
Some end quietly in a high school gym.
But the beauty of this story isn’t in how it ended.
It’s in how it was lived.
And this one will always be one of my favorites. 🤍
143-27 HS Record
• IWCOA State Placer
• 3 x City Champ
• 2 x IHSA Regional Champ
• 4 x IHSA Sectional Qualifier
• 2 x IHSA State Qualifier
💚
