Solomon Holzhauer- Week 5- Blind wrestler wins state championship

As you got from the title, a blind wrestler, with the name Cole Snider, won the state championship for the school, Branford High School. This is truly amazing to win a wrestling championship, let alone one game while being blind, while the opponent is trying to wrestle you and all you can do is listen and feel, and he used the senses to get him all the way to the championship, and to end up a champion! Cole Snider was blind since he was born, and is now a Sophmore, where the doctors told him he could never play or if he played, he would never be good at a sport because of his blindness. Snider took these words and beat the odds, and ended up as the number one seed for the 170 pound weight class. His story of what really made him fall in love and pursue the sport of wrestling was through his uncle's jujitsu class, where Cole learned jujitsu at the age of 4, from here it steered him towards his love for the sport of wrestling. Cole was made a special headgear with goggles to keep his eye fully safe for when wrestling, so he doesn't go 100% blind. If I haven't told you already one eye was fully blind when he was younger and the other is a bad eye, that if came in contact with could also be blind. Snider didn't let this stop him from going on his journey with a 30 wins and 4 loses for the season that means he wrestled 30 people and only lost 4 times. Cole Snider is truly a  leader and a hero for other kids with disabilities who have been in some kind of the same situation, or alike in where they have been told they could't achieve something because they are different.



https://www.wfsb.com/news/blind-wrestler-wins-state-championship-for-branford-high/article_9b19d87a-936c-11ec-acd8-d772df461620.html?block_id=994091

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  1. AnonymousFeb 24, 2022, 11:42:00 AM

    I think that it is very inspiring that this athlete didn't let his disability stop him and he won the state championship. I wonder whether or not his disability could have actually helped him in a way, because typically other senses are magnified when one is disabled. Perhaps he could have used a heightened sense of hearing or touch to help him win his competition.

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