Editor’s note: Union-Tribune contributor Don Norcross and photographer Kristian Carreon shadowed two-time state qualifier Emilio Escobar of Granite Hills High School at the CIF Division 1 championships on Saturday. What follows is a day in the life of a high school wrestler. Emilio Escobar wakes up on Saturday not to the sound of his cell phone alarm but to his mother knocking on his bedroom door at 5:30 a.m. “Emilio,” his mother said, “aren’t you supposed to be at school at 5:30?” Escobar mistakenly set his alarm for 4 p.m., not 4 a.m. The team is scheduled to leave Granite Hills High School at 5:30 a.m. for the 37-minute drive to Del Norte High School. Doors are scheduled to close at...
