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Take it to the Mat

Are you ready to for the grueling season place. Shawn Conway
throughout the season came in second place at
rumble? Wrestling is perhaps which means a lot of the same tournament
one of the most grueling running and training .
sports any athlete can advancing to the State
participate in. It is both a test This year's wrestling team Finals. All the wrestlers of
of mind and body in which an featured a new staff of Fort White High never
coaches, Coach Meeks,
gave up and showed good
athlete must either pin his Coach Hicks, and Coach sportsmanship
opponent or earn more
points than him in six Johns. Some of the throughtout the year. It
minutes to win. A match is veteran wrestlers of the wasn't just six minutes to
six minutes long and can be team, such as Shawn them, it was what they did
Conway and Travis King,
in those six minutes that
more tiresome than a whole had an outstanding year.
quarter of football or they worked for. All the
basketball. The wrestling Travis King came in first painful! practices was
team had to endure long, place at the district worth every bit of the
Regional the Wrestling
hard practices to prepare Tournament for his sacrifice. This is your Fort
White Wrestling Team.
ahead. To be a wrestler you weight class but failed to
have to maintain your weight
Right: Travis King
demonstrates a pin for
the camera ..... He
makes this look real
easy. Go get him
Travis!

Middle: Shawn
Conway works his
moves to get a pin as
he shows this wimp
what he is made of.
look at those muscles.

Above: As Shawn Conway
takes hold of his
opponents hand, he
thinks to himself "You call
that a hand shake."

Right: Chris Sonntag gets
ready to rumble as he
stares down his oppenent.

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