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BY MICHAEL GOLUBIEWSKI
Tuesday, February 08, 2000 Page: 14
Wrestling is one of the most competitive and physically demanding sports.
It takes years of hard work and practice to become a successful wrestler.
Wrestling is also unique, in that it is both a team sport and an individual
sport, with wrestlers competing for points for both themselves and their team.
Nanticoke youth in grades 4 to 6 are now getting the chance for an early
introduction to wrestling. Faced with declining numbers of wrestling
participants at the junior high and varsity level, Greater Nanticoke Area
Wrestling Booster Club president David Baer hopes that this elementary
wrestling program will develop into a feeder program for scholastic wrestling
in the Greater Nanticoke Area School District. Several dozen students attended
the first session Friday night at the Greater Nanticoke Area High School.
Practices will be held two nights per week from 6:30 to 8 p.m. (for now,
practice nights will vary, depending on events scheduled at the high school
gym). The children will learn basic wrestling moves, and will prepare to be
able to wrestle in tournaments. The lessons are free of charge – the Greater
Nanticoke Area Wrestling Booster Club has the equipment and singlets. Those
who wish to participate must just fill out a few forms dealing with insurance
and so forth. The program will be run by two standout Nanticoke Area
wrestlers, state-ranked senior Jeremy Baer, who began wrestling in the fourth
grade, and senior wrestler Ron Bruza. Both are also talented football players.
“Wrestling and football go hand-in-hand,” said David Baer. Topics covered on
the first night included the different starting positions, circling, escaping,
and the way points are scored.
“Some of you don’t know how to wrestle — that’s what we will teach you,”
Jeremy Baer told the group of enthusiastic youngsters. For more information on
the wrestling program, call Booster Club president David Baer at 735-8973. 1:
Nanticoke Ron Bruza demonstrates a proper starting position to a group of
young wrestlers.