{"id":9878,"date":"2019-02-22T18:40:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T18:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9878"},"modified":"2019-02-22T18:40:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T18:40:38","slug":"los-fresnos-teen-making-an-impact-in-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9878","title":{"rendered":"Los Fresnos Teen Making an Impact in Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9879\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9879\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9879\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_3001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_3001.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_3001-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_3001-405x309.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roman Rodriguez holds 1st place trophy, Rodriguez weighing in at 120 lbs.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Football is the Number 1 sport here in Los Fresnos and practically in every other Rio Grande Valley city.<br \/>\nBut a local athlete is making headway in another sport that has been largely ignored by many school districts.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>And for Roman Rodriguez, it\u2019s paying off.<\/p>\n<p>The 16 year old teen has been winning trophy after a trophy from competing in the Valley and out of the region as well.<\/p>\n<p>He said his biggest accomplishment in the three years he has been here has been taking the district champion title two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>In Cameron County, only Los Fresnos and San Benito school districts have wrestling in their sport curriculum, but in Hidalgo County that is a different story.<\/p>\n<p>Roman said he has been competing in Mission, Pharr and Rio Grande City.<\/p>\n<p>Roman\u2019s father, Robert, said he wishes wrestling becomes more popular as people hear more about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a lot of talent down here,\u201d he said. \u201cBut not too much motivation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said his son began wrestling when he was 10 back in Indiana where they lived for many years.<\/p>\n<p>The Rodriguez come from a family of wrestlers.<\/p>\n<p>After moving to Los Fresnos, Roman began wrestling with the school team even though he also plays football, basketball and does cross country.<\/p>\n<p>This Saturday, he is to compete in a semifinal competition in San Antonio where teams from all over<\/p>\n<p>Texas will wrestle for spots in the finals.<\/p>\n<p>After high school, Roman plans to pursue a degree in engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN Football is the Number 1 sport here in Los Fresnos and practically in every other Rio Grande Valley city. But a local athlete is making headway in another sport that has been largely ignored by many school districts. That\u2019s wrestling. And for Roman Rodriguez, it\u2019s paying off. The 16 year old teen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9880,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878\/revisions\/9880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}