Wrestling is in Livonia
Clarenceville freshman's blood

BY CHARLES ROTHWELL
Dec. 23, 2009, 11:40 p.m.

  Michael Weiss, Jr. comes from a family of wrestlers, but although his father and cousins wrestled, that is not what prompted Mike to try the sport.

  As a fifth-grader with lots of pent-up anger and frustration, Mike turned to the Trojan Wrestling Club as a release mechanism. After only a couple months of wrestling, Mike stopped because of a move to Lapeer.

  Weiss has now moved back to the Clarenceville School District to begin his freshman year and decided to join the wrestling team for totally different reasons: to have fun and enjoy the comaraderier of his teammates. He has set two goals for himself this year: to win the Livonia City Meet and to become a regional qualifier. On Dec. 9, Mike met his first goal by pinning his opponent from Franklin, then winning a major decision in the championship match over the Churchill wrestler.

  As for future plans, Mike wants to constantly improve as a wrestler and go to college to become a nurse. He thinks it would be wonderful if he could improve enough to win a scholarship to help fund his education.