Okay, so I wanted to dig into Colby Covington’s high school wrestling days. I’d heard some stuff, seen some mentions online, but I wanted the full picture. So I started digging.
First, I tried the usual – a simple web search. Typed in “Colby Covington high school wrestling”. I got a few general results, some mixed martial arts sites mentioning his background, nothing detailed.
Then, I thought, “Okay, let’s try to find his actual high school.” I knew he was from Clovis, California, so I searched for high schools in that area. I found a few, and started checking their websites, looking for wrestling records, archives, anything. It was a total pain.
Digging Deeper
I figured there had to be some local news coverage, right? So I started looking for online archives of newspapers from Clovis, California, specifically around the years Covington would have been in high school (I guessed, based on his age, that would be the mid-2000s). I found a couple of local paper websites, but their search functions were awful! So many irrelevant articles to sift through.I spent at least an hour messing with the search, putting in dates, and getting nowhere useful. I got frustrated.
I decided to get more specific. I knew he’d won a state title, so I searched for “California State Wrestling Champions” and the years I thought he might have won. Bingo! I started finding some results, but it was still scattered across different websites, old forum posts, and random mentions.
I was pulling information together * was like a puzzle, I felt like a detective. One site had part of a bracket, another had a newspaper clipping mentioning his name. Nothing was giving me the complete story.
Narrowing It Down
I remembered someone mentioning a specific wrestling forum online, so I hunted that down. It took a while to find the right one, and then I had to register to even use the search function! Once I was in, I started searching for “Colby Covington” and “Clovis” within the forum. More pieces of the puzzle! I found some old discussions, some people who remembered watching him wrestle, even a few mentions of specific matches.
At this point, I was pretty deep in. I’d spent a good few hours on this, and I was starting to feel like I’d never get the full picture. But I kept going.
Finally, I used all the little clues I had, names of opponents, names of tournaments, specific years and events. I put all the pieces together and found enough information to understand his high school wrestling career.
It was a really time-consuming process. And it’s amazing how much work it took.I’m not a professional researcher. I really had to be my own detective.
