ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0The Freedom High School boys wrestling program is full of championship banners. That is the expectation every year for the Patriots.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Isaac Velazquez is a senior on the Freedom High School boys wrestling team<\/p>\n
The Patriots were once again back in the state duels this year<\/p>\n
Isaac had a big time pin to help earn points towards a state championship<\/p>\n
Isaac Velazquez is in his fourth-year wrestling for the Patriots. He has had quite the season, with some big-time wins.<\/p>\n
\u201cIsaac’s always been a really hard worker \u2014 100% attendance to everything, shows up all the time,\u201d Freedom High School boys wrestling coach David Bush said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year we’ve had a lot of two-day tournaments, so they’ve been very long. But I have been getting a lot of good matches, especially at those like national tournaments,\u201d Velazquez said.<\/p>\n
Freedom High School was back in the state duals this year. Velazquez was facing off against a familiar opponent once again, one that he had lost to in previous matches.<\/p>\n
\u201cAvenging that loss, it just felt so good because last year he was my first match of regionals. I lost to him. Then he was my match to go to states, and I also lost to him again. So, getting the pin on him in the second period felt great,\u201d Velazquez said. \u201cI got up and started screaming. I felt so happy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gave us the momentum in that Wellington match in that regional final, which was really, really awesome to see for him,\u201d Bush said.<\/p>\n
As the team now gets set for state individuals, Isaac continues to be a leader both on and off the mats.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe shows up every day, works hard every day. He’s an AP student, a future engineering student. So just being an all-around student athlete, he\u2019s a great example of what it takes,\u201d Bush said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0The Freedom High School boys wrestling program is full of championship banners. That is the expectation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1238,274,1748,3745,115,1335,139,141,140,110,1746,278,835,39961],"class_list":{"0":"post-141639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-athlete-of-the-week","11":"tag-high-school-sports","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-orange-county","14":"tag-orlando","15":"tag-orlando-headlines","16":"tag-orlando-news","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-thomas-cook","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-vod","21":"tag-wrestling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}