Adam Skinner, a two time all-state place winner, is now on to his senior year. He has accomplished many great feats in his high school career, not only in sports but also in school. He is on both the Varsity Wrestling and Baseball teams at Woodgrove. In school, he is in the top five percent for his grade point average. 

Fellow five percent senior and teammate, Josh Mutima, commented, “Adam is a really hardworking person whether it is in the wrestling room or the classroom.” By wrestling through all four years of high school Skinner learned life long skills. He has been wrestling since he was eight years old, and has been playing baseball since he was seven. His major academic accomplishments include being in Woodgrove’s chapter of the National Honors Society, and the Math Honors Society, Mu Alpha Theta. In sports, Skinner has had 150 career wrestling wins, and he was a baseball state finalist. 

Becoming a top 5% student took a lot of hard work and sacrifices, with Skinner constantly having to stay up late and wake up early in the morning to get assignments done. “There have been a lot of times where I have had to skip out on something fun in order to make sure I was prepared for school,” commented Skinner. 

Doing these hard things has taught him how to manage his time better. Skinner has very little breaks when it comes to his daily life because of sports and school. In the winter he and wrestling practices and tournaments almost every day and on top of that he manages all of his work. Then going into the spring he gets into baseball where he also gets almost no days off. 

Adam Skinner is a huge role model and example student athlete at woodgrove high school. He not only accomplished things that some students dream of academically he also is accomplishing huge feats in the sports world. Doing all these things has set him up for greatness. He has learnt to be a leader in all aspects “I always see Adam doing the extra things in school and in wrestling, and you can see all of his hard work paying off,” added Senior Campbell Frook.