Stephen and Tricia Snyder saw the ad for a local wrestling club in their Woodbine, Maryland, neighborhood 15 years ago, considered the household breakables and decided to take their rambunctious 5-year-old son Kyle in for a test grapple.
“He was athletic at an early age,” said Stephen Snyder, a former college football player. “He would wrestle with me. He would wrestle with his mom. He would wrestle with the other kids. He was like a lot of boys: He loved aggressive play. We saw the advertisement and thought that might be a place for him to do that without destroying the house.