Enterprise High head wrestling coach Willie Fells says Wildcat sophomore Cody Kirk wasn’t the biggest or fastest 152-pound wrestler in the state this past season.
Kirk earned 55 wins over 57 matches on the season and finished as the state runner-up at the 152-pound weight in the state’s highest of division of Class 7A. Both of his losses were close decisions to state champ Devin Stone of Thompson, a senior with two more years of experience.
Fells said it was evident how the hard work in the offseason paid off for Kirk, who also plays football and soccer at Enterprise. He attended the week-long West Virginia camp, the Warriors’ three-day camp in Thompson and trained with the Alabama national team, while competing in several summer tournaments, including the Battle of Bama, the Deep South Duals, the Coach Carr Duals and several other events.
“I go back to last year, in the second half of last season he took a big jump,” Fells said. “He didn’t start off well. Even going back to Swede , he was 2-2. You started to see with this wrestler that his wrestling IQ was just going up. His IQ was growing at an enormous rate and when he started putting success behind it, the light kind of turned on and it showed toward the end of the season. He got to state and made that run from the sixth seed all the way to the finals.
“One of the things that makes him who he is is his craftiness on the mat,” Fells said. “It is nothing that is going to wow you. It is nothing that is going to blow you away, but he is so crafty and he always has composure.
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