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Jake McCool - Baseball Enid Wrestling by Billy Tipps, EHS Athletic Director
by Robert Faulk
has had to work very was difficult for us because to The Enid High School hardwetohad getinjuries to where two of our better guys, which is a 6 to 10 point Baseball team has he is at today.” swing. We to also had some guys out for differcontinued improve ent periods because of Covid protocols, which throughout this seaWe look forward meant we did not seem to start the same son. Just after the mid- to seeing Jake lineconup for twoinduals all season.” Coach Holland way point the 2021 tinue that hard work has a hard narrowing down theatleaders of season, thetime Plainsmen and play the next the finding squad saying that “several put continlots of are their grove level. have He will hard Jake work in, not only the school seaand McCool is during ue a long tradition of summers as well.”baseball He has ason, big but partduring of thatthe sucPlainsmen two pairs of brothers who are potential cess. players doing differgreat While open tournaments begin in the middle of November, Coach Holland is especially exence makers in Sophomore Payton and high Senior things beyond school. Jake has played Trinit Zwiefel, and Sophomore Zach and Junior cited to again host the Mid America Nationals baseball for thePayton, Plains- Trinit and Zach (as well here in Enid at the Stride Center on December Leslie Fortner. since Female middle Wrestler, Shae Salinas) 10-11. Mid America Nationals will have more November is a busy time for Enid HS Sports. men as Sophomore school and has had his sights set on starting for the Plainsmen theat one of the nations top than 30 top teams from Oklahoma, Louisiana, Football is ending and winter sports are start- all qualified to wrestle entire His motivation was then,isand still is,wrestling to be theinvitationals, best he can Fargo this past summer. Texas and Oklahoma. Because of its pool foring theirtime. competitions, and everyone excited be every day when he shows up to practice or games. That motivation about what the season has in store, especial- Trinit, in addition to being a 2020 State Qualifi- mat for the first day, it has become a great off, as Coach he is currently the 1st Coach basemaner,and in the out- State Champion in Gre- place to get a lot of mat time for the wrestlers, lyhad Enidpaid Wrestling Trent Holland. wasplays the Oklahoma field for the Plainsmen. The starting position is one he has had work Holland is in his 8th year as the Head Coach co Roman styletowrestling. State qualifiers Car- in a sport where experience is key. hard and be patient for. His advice to upcoming athletes is to “work as of the Plainsmen and as the coach of one of los Alvarado (a 16u All American) and Daigen hard as you can every day.” in NW Oklaho- Gibbons also return. Finally, Coach Holland talked a little bit about the only wrestling programs the emergence of girl’s wrestling. “We are curma, he has had his work cut out for him. While This past year has been different for rently looking for a girl’s wrestling coach, and Enid High has usually fielded a wrestling team everyone to say the least, and for athletes we have an excellent Sophomore here in the over the last several decades, it is not as enaround the world, including Jake, it is just anroom (Salinas). Several girls have mentioned trenched in the culture as it is in some other other challenge in their lives. “This year I have it, and there are 5 girls in our youth program, areas of the State, and Coach Holland’s goal learned that you can’t give up no matter how so we are just waiting for them to come on is to change that. The good news is that he is bad things seem.” Jake goes on to say that beout, we’ve got room.” Nationwide, too, girl’s well on his way! ing an athlete has helped prepare him for this wrestling is on the rise and several new colletype of event. “Being an athlete has made me a giate wrestling programs are adding women’s With help from assistant coaches Corey better person because it has taught me how to teams, including traditional power Iowa. Clayton, Cameron Conder and Tom Rowe, this be self-disciplined in many different situations.” year’s team will be one of the more experiWhether it is at a home dual, or the Mid enced they have had.onEven with the of a Jake plans extending hisloss academic America Nationals, Coach Holland would love past champion, Chance Davis, and state andstate athletic career at Northwestern Oklahoma to see the public check out the Enid High qualifier, Johnny Villa, Coach Holland believes State University where he will play baseball and Wrestlers this year! they havea adegree chanceintoBusiness. have a winning recordthe pursue Coach Gore, this year, after going 3-7 last year. “Last Enid High head baseball coach adds thatyear “Jake
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