It was just something where I wanted to help make a bad situation better. I thought this would be a good way to do it. My hair is going to be a wig for a child. Cancer is something that affects so many people.

Just to see Chris fight through the years with what was going on ... it was just something I thought that I could do.

Mike has a shot to place at state if he stays with his mental focus. He hasn't lost to any 2A wrestlers this season.

I don't like long hair, and with coaching wrestling it was especially tough. Kids were always telling me to get it out of their faces.

It's different. I can feel the breeze on my head again. I had short hair for a long time before this so I can remember what it feels like, but it's colder in the mornings now.

After Chris' funeral I decided to grow my hair. Then a month later my uncle died of cancer. That was a hard hit to me. At first no one really knew why I was growing out my hair, but as they found out they understood.