Roy Taking Wrestling Talents to U of M
By Jeff Steers JTV Sports (August 29, 2021 8:00 AM) Someone told 2021 Jackson High School graduate Jayson Roy he should start wrestling to improve for football. The footwork and agility would help the budding lineman. Somewhere along the line Roy fell in love with the sport of wrestling. Roy will take his wrestling talents to the University of Michigan where he hopes to walk on at the Division 1 school. But it is his academic prowess that brought the state champion wrestler to U of M. Roy earned a full ride academic scholarship at the university. He set foot on the Ann Arbor university for the first time on Thursday. “I was supposed to tour the campus a number of times, but everything kept getting shut down because of COVID-19,” Roy said. COVID-19 seemed to be a constant for Roy the past 18 months. A couple of days after finishing in third place at the Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 1 state individual wrestling finals, everything was shut down. The football season was paused for three weeks last fall and wrestling for 2020-2021 didn’t start until late February. But Roy and the Vikings found a way to conquer…
