Jenny Wong used her wrestling skills to become a sports medicine doctor. Hear from Wong about how she developed on and off the mat. | By FloWrestling | Hi, my name is Jenny Wong. I'm a two thousand three World Bronze Menace and I'm also a sports medicine doctor. What I love most about wrestling is that you really get out of it what you put in. I was terrible when I first started. You know, I didn't even know what a pin was. Um my coaches were very patient and slowly it got better. So, I didn't even win a single high school match until halfway through my junior year. So, that's two and a half years without a win. After the first year, noone ever pinned me though. So, I wouldn't give up but I still pretty much sucked and then after that, you know, I started winning some matches and and you know, just seeing all the efforts that I put into it, it was really nice to see that pay off. I was having trouble retaining all the information and so, I had heard about writing things down and so, I thought I would try it. So, you know, sometimes after practice, the coaches would sit there with me and I try to write down, you know, every single detail and so, writing it down, picturing every single step in your brain and having my coach there correcting me, that really helped my process it better and understand it better and so that was really helpful for me just because the way I am so there was a lot of tough days in medicine you know maybe when I when I was making the transition from becoming a full-time athlete to being a full-time med student studying was hard I had to study longer than everyone else because it took me longer to process the information. Um maybe I didn't do as well on a test and I had to you know regroup, reevaluate what I was doing wrong and how I could do better and then come back and do better on the next test and so wrestling really taught me those skills of, you know, perseverance and also evaluing my performance and seeing what I could do better and then, going back and then, doing better the next time. So, every day, looking to improve even now when I'm in practice, you know, looking at new data or how I could have explained things better to a patient or how I could motivate my patients better. So, I think the process of looking for continual improvement in wrestling has really helped me in medicine. With wrestling it's so much harder on your body. Um and with jiu jitsu there's it just seems to be more technical I guess mentally there's different positions that you're fighting on. I mean in wrestling you're never fighting from your back. Um jiu jitsu you know that's a huge part of the game and so learning how to fight from all these different positions. Use the gi. Use lapels. Um it's just, it's just been really fun to be a part of because there's just so much opportunity for growth and then, also the people are super, super welcoming, laid back, and super fun. So, I've had that, I've enjoyed having that as an outlet for a long time and hopefully, many years to come.