As often times wrestlers do, I gauge the remainder of my season by the number of weigh-ins I have left. I have 3 weigh-ins left in my competitive wrestling career, which means we are down to regionals and nationals. It is funny how time can seem so long and so short at the same time. After our duals on Friday, I went back to Lincoln with my mom and we went to State wrestling to watch my Dad's team wrestle. Thinking back to my high school days it seems like it was ages ago that I wrestled in the State tournament, but when I think about the fact that I am a senior in college nearing the end of my wrestling career it seems just like yesterday that I was deciding what college I wanted to attend and visiting my best bud Jeff (a year older than me) at UNK. There were times during my college career that I thought it would never end, now that I am staring my last two tournaments in the face I realize how quickly it went. People always tell you to enjoy your time in college because you will be surprised at how fast it goes, well I couldn't really fully grasp that until now. I am excited for the next phase of my life wherever God takes me, and I am excited to move into perhaps more of a coaching, rather than competing, role in my life, but I know that I will miss so many things from college.

We wrestled our last home duals this last Friday; we won both against Fort Hayes State University and Augustana South Dakota. I went 1-1, it was crazy to think that this was my last time jogging out hearing our announcer yell "welcome your UNK Lopers!" for a home dual. It was not our last home competition because we host the regional tournament next weekend. Regionals and Nationals are always crazy, anything can happen at these tournaments. This is always a nerve racking time of the year and I am a little nervous going into regionals because this is the time that I want to perform my best; but I listened to a sermon this weekend that put things in very good perspective. The pastor was talking about worry and he said that there are basically two reasons why a person worries; to summarize, he basically said, either 1. You don't have a proper view of God and his power, or 2. You don't properly trust that God knows what is best for you. This helps me a lot going into regionals and nationals, all I have to do is wrestle my hardest and let God take care of the rest. Whatever happens I know that I get to enjoy the next three weeks with my teammates and glorify God with a few more wrestling matches.

It's a dangerous business, going out of your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.

-Bilbo Baggins of the Shire-

Keenan