Takedown Report

Lifelong friends sign to rival wrestling programs

TDR Editor’s Notes; Both wrestlers earned TDR Top 12 Plaques as the top wrestler in eastern N.C. in their weight class. The James Johnson Award will be presented to Derby at First Flight on June 2nd. More details about that later.
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Jeremiah Derby and Arien Leigh have been friends since before they even knew how to say the word. The First Flight High School seniors went to daycare together as toddlers and became fast friends. In their middle school years, they met again – on a wrestling mat. The duo drifted apart when Jeremiah moved to Currituck for middle school. That’s when Arien started wrestling, a sport Jeremiah had been involved in since he was 4 years old. One day, they faced off at a wrestling tournament, where Jeremiah pinned his childhood friend “in 14 seconds flat,” Arein said. “It was the quickest pin of the tournament,” he laughed. As they leave First Flight High School, the friends are going their separate ways again — Jeremiah to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Arien to Duke University, both recruited into their school’s wrestling programs. Both are state wrestling champions, Jeremiah winning his second state title this year and Arien a runner up. And they fully expect to meet again on the mat.
Rest of the story at http://www.thecoastlandtimes.com/2018/05/09/lifelong-friends-sign-to-rival-wrestling-programs/?mc_cid=3baf61104c&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

May 23, 2018 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized