Sports

West Linn High wrestling team plans striking changes for upcoming year

Mary Earp
December 7, 2011

With a new study hall and a more enthusiastic team, this year’s wrestling team is experiencing a wide array of changes.

These study halls, implemented by Doug Samarron, head coach, take place every Monday after practice and began on Nov. 28. In these work periods, the wrestlers work on homework and are shown a feature of wrestling from the coaches.

“We will be able to focus on homework. Then we will be taught some aspect of wrestling other than technique,” Braden Krellwitz, senior captain, said. “This could be diet, how to warm up for a match, or anything like that.”

According to Krellwitz, these study halls were implemented due to improve the team members’ grades and have raised a fairly neutral response from the team.

“I haven’t really heard anyone say anything good or bad about them,” Krellwitz said. “I think they will be very beneficial for the new wrestlers, though.”

Along with the new time for academics, the team is embodying a different mood this year, according to Krellwitz.

“All the wrestlers and coaches seem to be more fired up this year, and the coaches are really trying to motivate and teach us as much as they can,” Krellwitz said.

According to Krellwitz, many of the new wrestlers are learning technique much faster this year. The first meet is this Friday, Dec. 2, at Newberg High School.

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Mary Earp, Co Editor-in-chief

Perfectionist, outgoing and busy are just three of the many words that describe Mary Earp, senior. Earp heard about Amplifier from her eighth grade English teacher, and has been a part of the staff since her freshman year. Currently, she is one of the three Co-Editors-in-chiefs of the paper. Most people have goals that they would like to pursue in their life, and this is a true statement for Earp as well. “I want to be a doctor, and I know this sounds cheesy, but I would really like to make a difference in the world,” Earp said. After high school, her hopes include attending either Pomona College or University of California, Berkeley. Outside of school, Earp has a very hectic life which includes playing co-ed soccer, being a member of the school Mock Trial team and being the President of National Honor Society. She is traveling to New York in late October for an international Mock Trial Competition, Empire, where she is assigned to present the closing argument and both direct and cross examinations for the trial. Some highlights of Earp’s summer were hanging out with friends and taking a vacation to North Carolina, where she visited family and spent some time at the warm sunny beach. If Earp could visit any place two places in the world, she would choose “Italy and Machu Picchu, Peru, because the scenery is beautiful,” Earp said. Her favorite year in high school so far was junior year. “It challenged me the most and broadened my horizons,” Earp said. So far in her senior year, the class Earp most enjoys is AP Environmental Science, “It’s very interesting, enlightening, and I have a great teacher,” Earp said. Earp’s senior year is packed with AP Environmental Science, AP Calculus BC and AP English, leaving her with a long night of work to complete. The most challenging part of taking these classes “is all of the work involved,” Earp said. So far, her last year in high school has been hectic and full of work, yet she is excited and looking forward to all of the opportunities that lie ahead in her future.