Discovering more about Orion Martin – The Stokes News
Discovering more about Orion Martin The Stokes News
Orion Martin
DANBURY – North Stokes’ senior Orion Martin was a three-sport athlete during his time with the Vikings. He was a four-year member of the wrestling team, played football for three years, and track and field for two.
He improved each year while on the wrestling team. Martin was 0-8 during his freshman season, won 10 matches his sophomore year, and combined to win 48 matches over the next two years. He was a three-time all-county and Northwest 1A All-Conference wrestler by finishing second in the 220 pound weight class his junior season and placed third his sophomore and senior years. He missed out on making the NCHSAA Individual State Championship by losing in the third round of the consolation finals the last two years before breaking through this past season with a fourth place medal in the 1A West Regionals. Martin finished as one of the top eight best wrestlers in the heavy-weight division.
The Stokes News caught up with Martin, who is plans on attending Lincoln Technical Institute in Nashville, Tennessee and will study to become a heavy diesel technician, and allowed us to get to know him on a more personal level and answered the following questions:
What’s your favorite food? Ruben Sandwich from New York
What’s your favorite subject in school? Auto Tech
Who’s had the most influence in your life? My father
What kind of music do you enjoy? I like rock and metal music
What’s your favorite TV show? “The Punisher Series”
What’s the best book you’ve read? “A Walk in the Woods” by Bill Bryson
If you could have one super power, what would it be? To make all movements silent.
What’s your favorite sport? Wrestling
What website do you visit most often? Airsoft GI
What’s the best thing about you? That I’m always willing to help others.
What is something someone should do at least once? Visit the Adirondack Mountains.
What’s special about the place you grew up? We are away from the inner-cities
What are you looking forward to over the next few months? Working until I leave for college.
What is your motivation before a game? Listen to music.
Where would you spend all of your time? In the mountains, somewhere on vacation
Where would you go on your dream vacation? A cabin where I can fly fish and stay outdoors.
Look for more “Getting to know Stokes County Athletes” in up-and-coming issues of The Stokes News.
Robert Money can be reached at 336-749-1193.
