Jordan Burroughs has seen the gamut in nearly a decade at the highest level of wrestling, from Olympic and world titles to significant injury to devastating defeat. Then Burroughs heard about high school wrestler Dathan Wickson Jr. and was floored.
Wickson received the Courage Award from Burroughs during USA Today‘s High School Sports Award show Thursday night.
Less than two years earlier, Wickson spent four hours having a cyst that grew into a tumor removed from between his brain and his skull.
“Wow, just incredible what this kid has been able to overcome in a short period of time,” Burroughs said by phone Thursday evening.