AJ Waters, a state champion wrestler, is ITG Next’s 2025 Glynn Academy Male Athlete of the Year, presented by Summit Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Surgery.
Waters has finished his senior season as a Glynn Academy wrestler with a 35-1 record. He was a team captain this past season for the Red Terror wrestling program, and although he has been wrestling for his entire high school career, it seems as if he saved his best for his final year at Glynn Academy.
His accomplishments this season included winning the Lambert Christmas Invitational Tournament, winning the region championship in his class, finishing as the sectional champion, and winning the Most Outstanding Wrestler Award at the Class 5A state tournament, as he went on to capture the Class 5A state championship in his weight class.
He was also impressive in the classroom with a 4.46 GPA.
As strong as Waters was in his final high school season, he admitted that it took him a while to fully appreciate what wrestling taught him as an individual and as an athlete, and he is glad to have experienced both the highs and lows of the sport.
“Even though my road to winning a state championship wasn’t completely ideal during the whole four years, there is nothing that I would have changed because it has led me to be who I am today,” Waters said. “It wasn’t until after my fourth year wrestling at Glynn Academy that I realized what truly I had learned from the sport, and I can confidently say that nothing has taught me discipline or sacrifice like wrestling has. It has grown me as a man, an athlete, a student, a brother, a son, and in every other aspect of my life more than anything that I have endured so far.
“Even through all the hardships and roadblocks throughout my wrestling career, I leave without any regrets, gaining more from the sport than I would have ever imagined.”
Waters will be attending the University of Georgia upon his graduation from Glynn Academy.
Pete Irby, Glynn Academy athletic director, was eager to praise Waters.
“We are proud of AJ Waters representing Glynn Academy as our Male Student-Athlete of the Year,” Irby said. “He is so deserving of this honor and all of the recognition he receives. He is a fine ambassador for all that is right about Glynn Academy athletics.”
Congratulations to AJ Waters, ITG Next’s 2025 Glynn Academy Male Athlete of the Year, presented by Summit Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Surgery.
