Perfection. It might be the word that best describes Maple Mountain’s Taylor LaMont.

The Golden Eagle senior secured an impressive 66-0 record in the traditional high school wrestling season with 53 pins. Among those wins were his fourth 4A state title, a Reno Tournament of Champions title, a Super State title, and a Rockwell Rumble title.

Then for fun, he just recently won a big postseason high school tournament in Pennsylvania called the FloNationals. This tournament featured scores of multiple state champions from all across the country. But LaMont even dominated there, with his closest match being a four-point win.

His tendency for perfection goes beyond wrestling.

LaMont also sports a 3.97 GPA taking 12 AP level classes, for which he was also honored as a 4A Academic All-State wrestler. And it will come to no surprise to find out that LaMont is a candidate for the top male high school athlete in the state of Utah.

What is incredible about LaMont’s accomplishments in wrestling this season is that he won his fourth state title two weight classes up from the division he wrestled at in the FloNationals (126 pounds).

For most of the high school season he competed at 138 pounds in order to strengthen his team’s chances of success in tournaments and dual meets. That's because his head coach, Justin Judkins, knew he couldn’t be beaten.

Now LaMont is setting his sights on making even more history.

This weekend, less than six days after going through the meat grinder of the FloNationals clear across the country against the nation’s most elite high school wrestlers, he hopes to qualify to wrestle in the Olympic Trials in the Greco-Roman division.

LaMont will travel back to Iowa, but this time he will have to battle against not only college-aged wrestlers, but also older grapplers who are in their athletic prime and desperately desire one last shot at Olympic glory.

If LaMont can pull off a tournament victory -- and he will have to win the tourney to qualify -- he would likely be the youngest wrestler to compete at the 2016 Olympic Trials.

The secret to success, according to LaMont, is passion and commitment.

“You have to love the sport,” LaMont said. “You have to love it every day to be in the practice room and not get burned out. You have to enjoy the process and you have to give 100 percent all year long. I never have got burned out and have enjoyed the sport since age 3.”

His father, Craig LaMont, who Taylor credits the most for helping his career, has served as his mentor and coach.

Craig was a multiple-time state champ himself at Sky View High School in Cache Valley, where he wrestled for Greg Williams, now the head coach at Utah Valley, where Taylor LaMont will wrestle collegiately.

“My dad has always been there in my corner,” Taylor LaMont said. “He was always there to build me up, always there with emotional and financial support. I also give a lot credit to my Mom, my brother (Grant—a three-time state champion for the Maple Mountain program), and all my coaches."

Not only has his high school and youth coaches been huge in his development, but he further credits Utah Valley coaches Williams and Erkin Tadzhimetov.

“I really look up to Coach Williams,” LaMont said. “He’s like a second dad to me and we have had a special relationship. He’s the main reason I’ve chosen to go to Utah Valley.”

“And Erkin has taught me so much. Erkin has a lot of international experience. He’s been a great workout partner and by practicing with him, he has helped me realize that I can wrestle with the best."

LaMont excels in all three styles of wrestling. There is folkstyle (done at the high school and college level), freestyle and Greco-Roman, the latter two styles done in the Olympics.

It is actually Greco-Roman, which emphasizes upper body techniques, that is LaMont's favorite and best style, and thus Greco-Roman will be the style in which LaMont is setting his sights on in regards to his Olympic dreams.

But with that said, LaMont feels that winning the USA Nationals in Fargo, North Dakota, in freestyle might be his most notable wrestling achievement thus far.

“I really think winning the Junior Nationals in freestyle was my greatest achievement,” LaMont said. “It’s the toughest high school (age) tournament and the competition was stacked, but I beat them handily. I think that’s my favorite accomplishment, but I think winning this qualifying tournament would be right up there. I really want to qualify for the Olympic trials.”