[Applause] now some people spend their entire lives wishing for amazing things they'll never get others just focus on doing amazing things but whatever they have now this past March Arizona State senior Anthony roblas won an NCAA Wrestling title capping a perfect 36 and0 season the tournament's most outstanding wrestler uh Anthony was born with only one leg and that should matter to you even if never really mattered to him take a look I remember the first time I saw Anthony Russell I went in the stands and my son threw down his crutches and he he hopped to the middle of the the mat and there's this scrawny little kid KN and that's my son and I was so proud of him but this woman was laughing and um it broke my heart I never wanted him to look at himself and say hey something's wrong with me because these people keep looking at me and pointing but if anybody's known Anthony throughout his whole life it's that big smile that great personality you know and and never letting anything get him down even when they'd ask him you know what happened to your leg he's like I was born that way just with confidence he just says it I know Anthony made it a point that he wanted to go to division one school he had worked really hard with two undefeated Seasons two state titles but he wasn't heavily recruited he knew he had something to prove once again when he first started it was like oh poor thing you know good for him he's trying he's you know he's got one leg he's at a disadvantage and then as he started winning was well he's got an advantage because he's got all that upper body strength and you know people can't get low enough and I'm like no the kid just figured out how to beat you guys and it will be tall task for Anthony roblas the senior from Mesa Arizona 7 minutes away from a national title I was scared for him knowing that it had to be Iowa knowing that it had to be the former Champion look at that beautiful technique by robas for anybody to give Anthony any credit it had to be the best of the best 5 4 3 2 1 and CAA Champion Anthony ROM Anthony had worked really hard and he'd overcome a lot of stuff a lot of people people not expecting him to do it people not expecting him to do anything and for him to take control of that match that was his defining [Music] Moment The Pride I feel for him is [Music] Indescribable it's an honor to be Anthony's mom [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] ladies and gentlemen the recipient of this year's Jimmy V award for perseverance Anthony robas [Music]