Paxton Hughes is passionate about wrestling, he has been doing this for all four years of his high school experience. He’s looking forward to the state championships.

“With how hard wrestling is, it makes everything else feel easy,” Hughes said.

Although he doesn’t want to pursue wrestling in the future, wrestling has given him real-life experience and helped him learn lots of things over the years.

Hughes has learned to never give up, stay motivated, and to be resilient when things get tough. Hughes has thought about quitting wrestling multiple years but his friends helped to build him up and his strong resilience made him power through tough patches in life and wrestling.