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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
This really illustrates a great point - a great athlete that is well suited for a certain sport will excel, even without experience. It's like the guys that are discovered internationally and recruited to play a sport that they've never even heard of, yet after two years of D1 college ball they are starting in the pros. Seems like the NBA has a lot of those stories. I believe Joel Embiid from KU had played basketball for a whopping two years before he became a starter at KU as a freshman, and is now moving on to be an NBA first round draft pick. Crazy.....
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I think it may also be a factor of sport prevalence in the geographic area. Here, in the Inland NW, the competitive wrestlers start at the age of 6. When I lived in TX, it was the same for football. Alternatively, no one played lacrosse - and I would expect a skilled athlete of any sort to likely make a varsity team in the area. With the OP being in the Bay Area, the odds of finding some under-appreciated sport are pretty slim.
I also don't see wrestling as something you can do for life. Maybe coach it, but not stay that competitively fit. Many of the competitive wrestlers I know are also severely undersized to this day. I think cutting weight for competition while in your formative growth years could prove to be very foolish.