Trout had committed to wrestle at Wyoming before the one-car accident last spring which shattered his left leg, forcing doctors to amputate just below the knee. Right away, Cowboy head coach Mark Branch traveled to Trout's hospital room in Lincoln, Neb. to reassure his recruit that the school would honor his scholarship.
About a month ago, Trout was fitted with a prosthetic leg. He's been acquiring a whole new set of skills -- how to shower, how to get dressed, how to get to class -- all on his own, away from home.
Making the transition a bit easier was Trout's welcome from his fellow Cowboy teammates.
"When I finally got out here, I was a little, like, scared and nervous but you know, everybody, they welcomed me," Trout told KGWN-TV.
Over the past few months, Trout has been actively participating in physical therapy and rehab. More recently, that work has had an ultimate focus of returning to action on the mat.
"I'm just doing like stuff to get my hips strong and my glute and my hip flexor muscles so I can start walking without crutches," said Trout.
Trout, a Kinesiology major, sees a career in helping others like himself.
"I want to get in to physical rehab, but with people with prosthetics, so then I can kind of give that one-on-one connection and I know what their limits are."
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