Reed Walker Is Ready for Hammer Time

There are some guys and gals that are just born to play a certain sport. That’s true for Reed Walker with wrestling.

Reed was born and raised in Cumming, Georgia, is a ninth-grader at West Forsyth High School, and wrestles for the Wolverines. He became interested in wrestling at an early age when he started watching his older cousin’s wrestle. Todd Carter, a three-time state champion at Pierce County who now wrestles for Gardner-Webb, and Luke Littlefield, who was a Georgia state runner-up, are his cousins. 

“Reed enjoys watching Todd wrestle on television every Sunday,” says his father, Ben Walker.

“All three of them love to get together during the holidays and share wrestling moves on their great-grandmother’s living room floor.”

Reed began wrestling at the age of six with West Forsyth’s youth wrestling program. He loved it so much that he began wrestling with Morris Fitness and their private club team under head coach Charlie Morris, a former Division III All-American wrestler. It was under Morris that Reed began to master the art of wrestling and the pin.

“We don’t call him Reed; we call him ‘The Hammer,’” said Morris. “I named him that when I first saw him wrestle. The Hammer is the Mouse Trap king and the Bull Dog Master. Reed is an amazing human being,” said Morris.

Throughout elementary and into middle school, Reed traveled with Morris Fitness to several national duals, including The Dixie Nationals in Atlanta, Virginia Beach, Deep South in Birmingham, the AAU Kingsport Elementary Duals in Kingsport, TN, and The Smoky Mountain Duals in Tennessee.

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