CRAIG SESKER COLUMN: Joe Heskett is a class act all the way – Ohio State Buckeyes
10/4/2007 12:00:00 AM | General, Wrestling
By Craig Sesker – USA Wrestling
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – One of the most rewarding parts of the 2007 season was having the opportunity to get to know Joe Heskett on a personal level. I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to tell his inspirational story when I wrote a feature about Joe for our magazine, USA Wrestler, earlier this year.
Joe was raised in Ohio by his grandmother, Evelyn Nye, and they have developed a very close relationship. She had an excellent influence on a kid who could have easily followed the wrong path with his parents not around to raise him. But Joe Heskett became a model young man. He excelled in school, he never missed curfew, he didn’t smoke and he didn’t drink. He poured himself into athletics and academics, and became one of the top young wrestlers in the country. He was a three-time Ohio state champion, a four-time NCAA All-American at Iowa State and placed fifth at his first World Championships a couple weeks ago in Baku, Azerbaijan.
