This post is represented by Brett LaMar, the co-founder of Wrestlers for Christ.
I just heard word from my father that the prayer I do before every tournament, that started off with over 1,000 straight injury free matches, has to be stopped by tomorrow. The first thing that popped into my mind is that there is absolutely no way that a person of any authority can tell me or any of my fellow wrestlers, coaches, managers, or officials when and how we present our prayer. Who has the authority to do so other than that guy named God? If you have a legit problem with this issue and you are really wanting this to stop, then come approach me center mat, and try to tell me and the other 100 wrestlers,officials, coaches, managers, and parents that it is illegal to do what the Constitution has guaranteed us to do. Why does this really bother people? Is it really offending you that much that you can't stand to see it?
I'll tell whoever is listening. Tomorrow I am going to invite people down for a prayer before we wrestle, and we are going to pray for a loved one from this State's wrestling family that has passed away recently, and we are going to pray for no one in our families and closest friends to ever have to experience something like that again that happened to the Newton community on Tuesday. Then I'm going to pray for safety, and for the well being of every student-athlete that has the guts to stick it out this long to be here on the regional mats today, and for the coaches who have worked day in and day out trying to prep their kids up for this big weekend, and for those coaches not to lose one of their wrestlers they care so deeply about, and for the officials that have showed up countless hours every Friday and Saturday working their butts off. I am then going to pray for all of those people and for their safety and I am going to look up to the Lord and thank him for keeping those people safe. That is what this prayer is about and I want to know whom-evers concerns they have about any thing I said.
God Bless to all. You will all be in my prayers.

Brett LaMar, SLHS