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Another Great Year for the Cobber Team Camp
Matt and Clay Nagel finished up the 7th annual Cobber Team Wrestling Camp. For the 4th year in a row the Cobber’s produced over 300 plus campers. The camp started last week Sunday and wrapped up with awards and Championship matches on Thursday morning.
PINnacle Wrestling Club competes in Virginia
PINnacle Wrestling Club competed at the Virginia Challenge National Holiday Duals (Elementary Age Group) this past weekend.
Forest Lake 3rd Annual Triple Crown Winners
Congratulations to the following wrestlers who placed first in the Forest Lake Folkstyle, Greco-Roman and Freestyle tournaments in 2010! Each of these individuals will be receiving a Ranger Triple Crown t-shirt:
- Owen Bouthilet, Stillwater – Pee Wee
- Michael Loger, Anoka – Pee Wee
- Reid Ballentyne, Stillwater – Bantam
- Ryan Sokol, Simley – Bantam
- Nick Dunagan, Iron Mustangs – Intermediate
- Colby Njos, Anoka – Intermediate
- Nicky Pierce, Forest Lake – Intermediate
- Tanner Wiese, Forest Lake – Intermediate
- Jake Allar, Benilde/St. Margaret – Novice
- Jared Florell, Forest Lake – Novice
28th NSPSL Wrestling Championships
The North Suburban Parochial School League concluded the 2010 wrestling season with their 28th annual championships on Saturday, March 27th at Totino-Grace High School. Twelve schools participated in the dual meet season and the individual tournament, involving upper elementary through 8th grade boys. Epiphany of Coon Rapids won the team title, ahead of runner-up Meadow Creek Christian School (Andover), St. Vincent de Paul (Osseo) and St. Stephen’s (Anoka). This was the 12th time Epiphany has taken home the league championship trophy, as Meadow Creek’s string of three straight titles came to an end.
Elk River Old Timer’s Wrestling Tournament
On March 20th, the Elk River Wrestling Program hosted the 7th Annual Elk River Old Timer’s Wrestling Tournament and the 3rd Annual Elk River Old Timer’s Wrestling Team Duals at the Elk River High School. This year we had 142 wrestlers compete in the individual tourney and 11 teams of 6 in our team tourney. Just like last year, wrestlers came from all over Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa to compete.
28 days that will change your life
J Robinson Intensive Wrestling Camps
By Brian Jerzak
The temperature was over ninety degrees in late July. Wrestlers from around the country were engaged in one-on-one live wrestling. Not more than ten minutes passed and everyone on the mat was drenched in sweat, but they pressed on. At 15 minutes the whistle blew, the action stopped and each wrestler found his individually labeled water bottle for a two minute water break. After the two minute break the whistle blew again and the paired off wrestlers began again, this time for ten minutes. The intensity of the wrestling didn’t slow down as time went on. None of the wrestlers wanted to be responsible for making the group do 50 yard bear crawls or push-ups because he was not pulling his weight. Ten physically draining minutes pass and the whistle blows again. Two minutes of water and rest before the next whistle. Five minutes, break, five minutes, break, ten minutes, break, and finally one more grueling 15 minute live wrestling session.
After the final 15 minute session, the camp leader, who had been observing the action from the side, gathers up the sweat drenched wrestlers. He summarizes an earlier session the wrestlers had with a group of Navy SEALS giving them the collective group results of the swimming test the SEALS put them through. He then moves on to the final day’s workouts. He asked the wrestlers how many of them are worried about the 15 mile run that laid ahead of them the next and last day of the camp. About half of the wrestlers raised their hands. Then he asked how many of them think they can run seven and a half miles. Every one of the wrestlers’ hands went up. “All you have to do then,” the coach said, “is turn around and run back.”
I asked Ed Henry, a wrestler from Michigan who was preparing for his senior year of high school and was back for his third straight year at the camp, why he puts himself through this. I mentioned there must be a hundred wrestling camps he could choose, why choose this camp?
“Here you have no distractions. It is all about wrestling. Before my first year coming here, I was 18-32. After coming here one year I was 32-18. It (his big turn around) was all because of this camp. It gave me the confidence I needed to compete against the top guys. After wrestling with (among others) Cole Konrad and Rulan Gardner, I knew I could handle any wrestling situation I would get into.”
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