Marinette – for most high school athletes, it is arduous to juggle one university sport with everything else that happens in their lives.
This is not the case for Marinette Junior Cooper Smith. Two university sports are playing right away.
“Just go through it, I know,” said Smith about your way of thinking. “Both sports are fun, so it’s very funny.
On a typical day from 3:30 to almost 17:00, Smith is on his first practice for wrestling,
“Some people have their good and bad days,” he said. “Today I feel quite good. So I will go tonight and have some basketball energy. “
Smith is powered by home cooking from his mother, Angie, as well as Taco Bell a few days and a lot of Gatorlyte.
“You’ll see how I do it all day and just try to hydrate through it all,” he said.
Nowadays, athletes with many athletes can be difficult to find.
“I would not like to do it myself, but he is a special athlete,” said Wrestling coach Marinette, Josh Freetan.
At 4:45 Smith gets out of wrestling practice.
Next: exercise basketball at 17:00
“When I told my father that this year I am going to a double sport – he looked at me in a confusion:” Are you sure you want to do it? “. Whatever makes me better, “said Smith.
His main basketball trainer does not notice any fatigue in Smith when he goes from mat to hard wood.
“It’s a bit crazy, because these wrestling practices are also arduous,” said Connor Nelson, the main coach of Basketball Marines. “You see how it runs. He is always steeped in later when he comes to basketball, but when he comes to us, he is quite tired, but never allows him to show him. “
The most important question is: what makes Smith want to do it?
“14 university letters,” he said. “That’s my goal and I will be there.”
“If you can plan it and be very determined to do it,” said his mother, Angie Smith. “You can achieve everything and it’s really for Cooper. He is determined to do something – he intends to do it. “
In addition, his parents and trainers say that Smith maintains their grades. It impresses the most. He is on an honorary roller and is part of the student leader Wiaa.
“It’s about sacrificing and determining what is most essential to him, and he decided that playing sports (and management team) really drives him now and as a father, I think it’s wonderful,” said his father, Bob Smith.
Cooper said that all his difficult work is to better prepare him for featherlight athletics and one day of work at Wiaa.
You just realized what you work for – he said.
Not to mention Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays Cooper, he not only practices wrestling and basketball. It takes an hour to go to de pere to practice baseball at Isa Academy.
