Reckonings

The body coming to terms with quitting

For the past fifteen years, I’ve lied to hundreds of people about what happened to my college wrestling career. Maybe more than that, to be honest, as the full story is not really known by anyone, even the coaches or my teammates at Stanford, because I never had the courage to face it. People who don’t really care at all would ask me — people who’d never wrestled or been to a…