Article: Bulldog Breakdown: The Football Player, Part 2

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By Anna Kayser

 

If you’re on the outside looking in as Brownsburg wrestling approaches the 2023 State Series, you may not know or see that there is a lot different about Leighton Jones now compared to last season.  

 

For one, his bathroom mirror is covered in words written in dry erase marker.

 

To explain how Leighton has grown into who he is today, we have to go through what happened in the IHSAA State Championships last year.

 

As the No. 1 ranked heavyweight in the state, Leighton was the odds-on favorite to win the championship after losing his ticket round match during his freshman year and placing third at state as a sophomore. However, the viewpoint was a lot sunnier from the outside looking in on a kid who had high prospects for his future and a solid season on the purple Brownsburg mat.

 

Internally, he was exhausted.

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Thanks @Y2CJ41and Anna Kayser! Anna was able to tell his story (to date) so well. These two articles and Jeremy Hines's article from the '21-'22 season have been able to relate so much better than what social media does nowadays. The wrestling community in Indiana is tight and the relationships through Indiana wrestling will be treasured as these next four weeks draw to a close and the wrestling shoes are permanently traded in for cleats...