Drake Acklin '22 Recruiting Profile

After not starting my freshman year, something happened in me that I cannot describe.  I found myself at a fork in the road, do I quit wrestling and focus on baseball?  I could have started my freshman year on the baseball team,  but I always felt my heart was with wrestling.  I had many discussions with my family, and I decided to really focus on wrestling.  Soph year I beat Josh Taylor in the regional finals, and Josh was going for his 4th state championship.  I beat him pretty good actually, and my dad was excited, but I told him, I still had work to do.  I am beating him in the finals at state, and boom I get caught and pinned.  I cannot describe the pain I went through that night.  My dad said he has not seen me cry like that, since I was 6 years old. Again, another hurdle.  I took a week off, and then I was back to work.  I told everyone, I am winning it this year and I am going to bonus all the way through regionals and state.  I tech'd and pinned my way all the way through regionals and state except one match, and that was at regionals, I majored him. I know my ceiling his high, I continue to get better every year, I don't mean to sound cocky, I am just confident in how hard I work. I am going to try and put on 15lbs this summer, coaches say I am a 57 or 65lbr, so I want to get up to 180 and then wrestle 170 next year.  I have always had goals, I have them in the classroom and on the mat.  I made a 21 on my ACT first take, I am hoping to get that to a 26 at least.  I am 3.5 student, I am hoping to get that up as well.