Shaun Heist's mother, Michelle, was named William Allen High School's Female Athlete of the Year back in 1987.

Growing up, there was always a friendly mother-son competition in the Heist household. Heist sought to one day join his mother on that level and become a school's Athlete of the Year.

Heist recently saw that dream come true, as he was named Parkland's Male Athlete of the Year at the school's athletic award ceremony.

"My family is really competitive," said Heist. "She always rubbed that in my face about how she was a female athlete. So it was kind of always like a little goal of mine to try to one up her and get that same award. Once I got, it was a cool accomplishment to finally beat her."

As a member of the Trojans wrestling team, Heist was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler by his coaches. He eclipsed 100 wins this past season and ended with a total of 125 victories for his high school career.

"I couldn't have been happier when I got that award," said Heist. "It was cool thinking that people really do acknowledge the work that people put in. It was cool thinking that they thought of me as the Most Outstanding Wrestler for them."

He also participated in a national team duals tournament over Memorial Day weekend with his club team. As a part of the 2013 NHSCA Wrestling Duals, Heist went 9-1 at the Battle at the Beach in Virginia Beach and helped guide his Young Guns team to a first-place finish.

"It's kind of fun spending the time out there with the team that you were with and wrestling a lot of great competition against some really talented kids and great teams."

Heist was a vital part of the Parkland football defensive line as well, and helped the Trojans to a district championship. He's played every season at Parkland, and began playing back in seventh grade.

"Playing sports at Parkland in general has tremendously impacted my life," said Heist. "I know playing football this year, it probably was one of my most successful years playing football and probably was the most fun I've had playing football ever. Just because our team was so close together and we really kind of got that brother feeling for each and we could always watch each other's backs.

"It's definitely made me who I am today. It has pushed me physically and mentally through any sports that I've done whether it was wrestling or football to always go 110 percent and to always try to get better and better no matter what."

Heist has been wrestling ever since the fourth grade. And while his high school career is over, another chapter is set to begin. He'll continue his wrestling career at the Division I level next season as a member of the Bloomsburg Huskies. After a disappointing end to this past season by his standards, Heist is itching to get back on the mat again.

"I look forward to the challenge of it and going on to harder competition [and] bigger and better things," said Heist. "I just want to try to keep getting better and keep trying to do better. I didn't end my wrestling season like I wanted to. So the only thing I can do now is go into Bloomsburg and wrestle and try to almost redeem, or at least do better, and that way I can feel better about how I ended it."