Camp Grant Recipient: Jacob Wilcox
Columbine High School’s Jacob Wilcox is one of the 2021 RBS&HF Wrestling Camp Grant recipients.
To kick off the 2021 nomination and application season, the RBS&HF elected to offer $250 grants to be used toward fees for wrestling camps. The board chose to focus on the three high schools in Colorado where Coach Barron led teams—Fort Lupton High School in Fort Lupton and Heritage and Columbine High Schools in Littleton. Coaches chose the recipients based on exhibiting strength and honor on and off the mat, as well as need and other circumstances. Along with the grant money, each recipient received a RBS&HF T-shirt for themselves and one to give to another wrestler at camp.
We asked each wrestler to submit a short note about what wrestling means to them and how it’s been an asset to their lives. Here’s a message from Jacob Wilcox from Columbine High School, who split the grant with his teammate Naethan Tagawa.
“Wrestling to me has been far more than a sport. Wrestling has taught me to fight through hard obstacles with physical skills and work as hard as possible while still using my head. This sport is also building me as a person by teaching adversity and problem solving in almost every aspect. The coaches are a huge part of why I love wrestling. They teach and coach us to use moves and skills that lead to success, motivating and pushing us during matches and drills, and most importantly teaching respect and discipline. I never got to meet Coach Barron myself, but I get to experience the legendary program he built. Wrestling for Columbine and being able to be a part of Barron's Boys is an honor that is helping build me into a great wrestler and an even greater person by teaching me to work through anything and everything with strength and honor. Luke Barron, Coach Barron’s son, continues the legendary wrestling program that was started by Coach Barron by reflecting the skills and lessons that were originally taught to him, and I'm truly honored to learn from the best and be involved in what Coach Barron had started.”