Skyline is home to many students that didn’t originally live in the bay area. There are students from as far as the Philippines and Taiwan to people from Southern California. Amongst those students that came to the Bay area for school are two brothers from Florida. Twins to be exact.

These twin brothers came from the Ft. Lauderdale area of Florida to San Francisco and Skyline for one reason: to wrestle.

Travis and Glenn Greggains now live with their grandmother in San Francisco, so they can attend Skyline and compete on the wrestling team, which consists of only a handful of guys.

“There was no wresting in college, in Florida,” said Travis Greggains.

“I guess it really was a perfect fit,” added Glenn. Everything that they wanted was in and around San Francisco. They are now closer to family, they can wrestle, and they have plenty of opportunities to surf at the beach and play paintball, two of their hobbies outside of wrestling.

The Greggains’ coach in Florida suggested that they go to a college where wrestling was big, but most of the colleges that had reputable wrestling teams were in states like North Dakota and Iowa, places that neither of them wanted to go.

During the season, they compete in folk style or collegiate wrestling, which is the norm for most colleges in the country. In the off-season they wrestle Freestyle and Greco-Roman for a club that has existed for some time on campus, but like the wrestling team doesn’t get much exposure.

Both Greggains’ have been wrestling since their freshman year in high school, and Glenn qualified for nationals in the, cadet class, but couldn’t raise enough money to attend. Freshman year was also the last time that they ever wrestled each other, because of a ten-pound difference in body weight.

“He [Travis] is always a weight class below me so I usually have to wrestle the better people,” Glenn said.

They hardly ever spar with each other because they end up getting in arguments that spill over into their everyday lives. They still are aware of each other’s strengths and weakness though.

“Glenn likes to go for the big moves, he likes to toss you on your back,” Travis said. “He’s a little more impatient.”

“He’s [Travis] too passive, too calm, not very aggressive, but he is working on that,” Glenn said.

They are now co-captains of the wrestling team with their teammate Jason Moorehouse. This is in stark contrast to there past season, when they really didn’t have a reliable captain.

“We really didn’t have much leadership,” said Travis. “Whoever was more motivated that day [was the leader].”

As captains for the team they are trying to inspire people to join the team, which as of now is relatively small, however it is proving difficult because of the obscurity and the sacrifice on the part of the people’s bodies that wrestle.

“We are trying to recruit kids from around the Bay area,” said Travis. “The whole sport, you can’t do it in one and not the next…it’s a commitment.”

The Greggains are living proof of that as well. Travis suffers from neck injuries; due to an aggravated neck stinger he received his junior year of high school. He said it has been a chronic problem but he has been working on it with Joanne Silken, a physical education teacher here at Skyline.

Glenn has also had his share of injuries, including a partially torn MCL and bone contusions to the patella (kneecap), which he received at the beginning of the 2006 wrestling season.

“I got injured when we wrestled Fresno,” Glenn said. “Joanne helped me get back.”

And he got back just in time for regions at the end of the season, where he won his first match by fifteen points, which constitutes a technical fall. In his next match, Glenn faced the state champion, the wrestler from Fresno State who injured his knee. Unfortunately on April 21, Glenn injured his knee again.

Wrestling isn’t everything in the Greggains’ lives, they plan to move on to San Francisco State, and then move on to becoming firefighters, but until then Skyline has two very motivated individuals to wrestle for Skyline.