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Love of wrestling leads Fike’s Farmer to Mount Olive

By Paul Durham paul@wilsontimes.com

Wrestling has been part of Jacob Farmer’s life since the newly minted Fike High graduate started school, so he’s happy the end of his high school career isn’t the end on the mat for him, too.
Farmer, who graduated with his senior class at Fike on Saturday morning, signed recently to join the wrestling program at the University of Mount Olive. Farmer, who plans to major in exercise science at the NCAA Division II Conference Carolinas school, said that he took the initiative to contact Trojans head coach Dan Willis after attending a match at UMO to watch some of his friends wrestle for the Trojans. “I have friends that I’ve been wrestling with since I was a little kid from club with Coach Jake Brown at The SPOT in Wilson,” Farmer explained. “Timothy Decatur, Christian Decatur and then Aaron Bancroft (Fike assistant coach George Bancroft’s son) — they all used to wrestle when I was in club and then just seeing them wrestle at UMO and I just wanted to go there and it’s a small school and Christian-based. So that really helps me too.”
Bancroft, a two-time state champion at Fike; and the Decatur brothers helped the Trojans to an 11-3 overall mark and a third-place finish in Conference Carolinas. UMO placed fifth in the NCAA Div. II Southeast Regional tournament.
Farmer, who said he also received interest from UNC Pembroke, graduated in just three years from Fike. The son of Claudia and Percy Arrington of Wilson said that he plans to major in exercise science. … more at … Restorationnewsmedia/Love-of-wrestling-leads-fikes-farmer-to-mount-olive

June 17, 2024 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized