{"id":7976,"date":"2012-09-28T14:58:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T19:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=7976"},"modified":"2014-05-20T13:12:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T18:12:04","slug":"back-to-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2012\/09\/28\/back-to-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Victor Wyrick is a Sinclair basketball player who is continuing his basketball career after a major injury.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While some paths in life could be considered more straightforward than others, Victor Wyrick has been forced onto a path fraught with hurdles and hardship, and has met it with drive and determination.
\nWyrick, 23 years old, battled his way back from a potentially career-ending injury and now wears number 34, as a wing guard for Sinclair Community College\u2019s men\u2019s basketball team.
\nFour years ago, Wyrick was forced into a back brace after fracturing two of his lower vertebrae during basketball practice at Massa Mutten Military Academy in Woodstock, VA.
\nWyrick and another player both went up for a rebound, Wyrick was pushed back in mid-jump and the opposing player landed on top of his chest, arching his back to the breaking point.
\nAfter graduating from Roger Bacon High School in 2008, Wyrick had enrolled in the military academy with the hopes of earning a college scholarship through basketball, and he said that his family and friends were disheartened, but very supportive after the injury that had unexpectedly and abruptly altered his plan.
\n\u201cI just thought that I pulled a muscle,\u201d said Wyrick. \u201cI actually played for like a month on it. And then when I went home for Christmas break, I got a CAT scan and they told me it was broken.\u201d
\nWyrick spent almost eight months in a back brace, while strictly focusing on his classes and physical therapy exercises.
\nIn that time, he also dealt with the angst and the depressing acceptance of forced inactivity as a life-long athlete.
\nComing from a family that\u2019s big on sports, Wyrick grew up playing basketball, baseball, volleyball and football.
\nAfter attending Casper College in Wyoming, Wyrick worked in landscaping and attributes that experience as being a major motivating factor in his decision to continue his education.
\nWyrick decided to enroll at Sinclair and after recovering from another injury, this time a sprained ankle, he joined the last three weeks of open tryouts and made the team.
\nIt is still early on and men\u2019s basketball head coach Jeff Price said the team is still developing, but he is optimistic and looks forward to seeing how Wyrick progresses this season.
\n\u201cOur job is not always about winning basketball games. It\u2019s about helping young people get from point A to point B, said Price. \u201cWe saw an opportunity with a young man that wanted to get better.\u201d
\nWyrick\u2019s goal at Sinclair is to earn straight A\u2019s and to ultimately get that elusive scholarship to a four-year university.
\nWyrick feels that he is playing at 100 percent capacity and is confident in himself and the team.
\n\u201cVic, he plays the game with a lot of intensity. All the work he puts in is at such a high, intense level that I know if I match his intensity, I\u2019m getting better\u2026 as a player and as a person,\u201d said teammate Eli-Sha Campbell. \u201cWe all push ourselves to the point where we\u2019re all pretty much exhausted. Seeing Vic, just as tired as us, but continuing to go 110 percent with everything that he is doing, it helps me look at it from another perspective.\u201d
\nCampbell and Wyrick have been working together on the court, but got to know each other better and became friends while attending a Sinclair women\u2019s volleyball game.
\nAlong with his discipline, Campbell also praised Wyrick for being good natured, genuine, respectful and humble.
\nHe said that the team is having a great time together while preparing for the upcoming season, and that Wyrick has only added to the bond and family-like feel to the team.
\n\u201cI think that we have a really good squad,\u201d said Wyrick. \u201cWe have a real good shot at winning the league\u2026 and doing some damage in the tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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