ANNUAL LUNCHEON WITH GUEST SPEAKER: ANTHONY ROBLES
MONDAY — October 1st, 2024
On July 20, 1988, the doctors were not prepared when Judy Robles, age 16, gave birth to a baby boy who was missing his right leg. The doctors could not explain what went wrong or why he was missing a leg. His mom, however, always told him growing up that “God made you this way for a reason” and she made him believe it.
He finally realized what that reason was when at the age of 14, in Mesa, Arizona, he tried out for the wrestling team.
His first year was horrible. He was the smallest kid on the team weighing in at a whopping ninety pounds and without question, the worst wrestler; finishing his first year with 5-8 record and in last place at the Mesa City wrestling tournament. Not many people believed that this tiny kid born with one leg, the worst wrestler in the city, would ever excel in such a demanding sport. However, with the support of his family and his coaches, he believed he could one day be a champion wrestler; he believed that he could be UNSTOPPABLE.
Despite various obstacles along the way, he went from being last in the city to finishing his junior and senior years at Mesa High School with a 96-0 record, a 2-time Arizona State Champion, and a high school National Champion. Few college wrestling programs believed he could excel at the next level. They thought Anthony was too small to wrestle in college, and that a one legged wrestler could never compete with the nations best college wrestlers.
His mom raised him with his head in the clouds, so he believed he could do anything he set his mind to. This way of thinking compelled him to walk onto the Arizona State University wrestling team to prove to them, and the world, anything was possible. Through trials and hardships, both on and off the wrestling mat, Anthony Robles finished as a 3-time All-American, and the 2011 NCAA National Champion.
Although his competition days on the mat are over, he continues to wrestle the opponents life brings his way all the while believing that “I am UNSTOPPABLE…”
Join us Tuesday, October 1st for this tremendously inspiring guest speaker, Anthony Robles, and his incredible story of triumph over adversity.
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