Recreation

Date published: 12/21/2007

BY KURT NICOLL

Ready to throw some weight around?

Area wrestlers might be worried about gathering some rust during the upcoming two-week break from school, but the Stafford Highlanders Wrestling Club has a solution that might effectively jump-start an athlete's performance come January.

The local club is staging a five-hour wrestling clinic tomorrow under the direction of coach Mike Clayton of the Stevens Institute of Technology (N.J.)

The clinic starts at noon and costs $50 to enter. The club is encouraging its intermediate and advanced wrestlers in the Capital Area Wrestling League (CAWL) to participate, but the clinic is open to any middle school or high school wrestler as well.

Clayton is the author of Session 6 Championship Training, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and former West Point assistant. He has coached 30 collegiate All-Americans, including eight national champions.

The clinic will aid wrestlers to self-assess their habits to ensure healthy and effective training. Pupils are encouraged to log their training sessions, monitor his diet and think positive.

The wrestling club trains at the Stafford Gymnastics and Recreation Center (located off U.S. 17 in Falmouth).

Interested wrestlers may sign up the day of the clinic until 11 a.m. For more information, call Bonnie Knight at 540/842-0325.

OLYMPIAN TO VISIT

Former U.S. Olympian Rick Hawn will participate in a competitors clinic and workout Sunday, Jan. 6 at the Fredericksburg Judo and Jujitsu Club located in Spotsylvania County off U.S. 17.

Club owner Chuck Wall indicated the session is for martial arts students with at least one year of training and anticipated roughly 50 participants, including clubs from Northern Virginia and Maryland.

The clinic costs $40 and runs from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., with a one-hour lunch break at noon.

Hawn, 31, competed in the 2004 Olympics in Athens and is vying for a spot on the U.S. team traveling to China next year. He is a four-time senior national champion and current member of the 2007 World Team.

For more information, visit kids.judo.com, e-mail wall.
Email: chuck@gmail.com or call 804/448-0503.

NO BONES ABOUT IT

Defending champion W.T. Woodson of Fairfax is among the 12 teams entered in next week's second annual Old Man Bones indoor lacrosse tournament at the Fredericksburg Fieldhouse.

The tournament is scheduled Friday, Dec. 28. Seven-on-seven games start at 9 a.m. with a 25-minute running club. The top four boys teams advance to a single-elimination playoff that begins at 2 p.m.

Besides the five Stafford County high schools, boys teams have entered from Woodson, Culpeper, West Springfield, Paul VI, St. Christopher's, Richmond Shock and VA Elite.

Date published: 12/21/2007