{"id":1052,"date":"2005-04-14T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/?p=1052"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"master-of-the-mat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/w1052\/master-of-the-mat\/","title":{"rendered":"Master of the Mat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by John Di Tullio<\/p>\n<p> Webster Schroeder wrestler Gregor Gillespie powered through the competition during his high school career capturing five Monroe County titles, five Section V titles, five super sectional titles, and state championships in his sophomore and senior seasons. Gillespie finished those two seasons undefeated with a combined 91-0 record.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;That&#8217;s what I like about wrestling is that it is an individual sport,&#8221;\u009d Gillespie said. &#8220;When you are out there on the mat it&#8217;s only you. You can&#8217;t blame anybody else, and you can&#8217;t rely on anybody else.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p> Gregor trains year round and it&#8217;s very convenient as he has a wrestling mat in his basement. His father Brad, a wrestler himself in high school and college, acquired the mat from Monroe Community College. And from the time when he was six years old when Gregor needed a workout partner, dad was always there.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We do go live matches and we do wrestle like full out, but never to the point where we get angry or anything at each other,&#8221;\u009d said Gregor.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It&#8217;s been too painful and his skill level has gone up so far that I really don&#8217;t go with him anymore, this year especially. Last year it was bad, this year was worse,&#8221;\u009d Brad explained.<\/p>\n<p> Things will continue to improve for Gregor though, who will wrestle at Division I Edinboro University in Pennsylvania next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Di Tullio Webster Schroeder wrestler Gregor Gillespie powered through the competition during his high school career capturing five Monroe County titles, five Section V titles, five super sectional titles, and state championships in his sophomore and senior seasons. Gillespie finished those two seasons undefeated with a combined 91-0 record. &#8220;That&#8217;s what I like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrestling"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B7Di-gY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}