By Carlton High School

Carlton School Wrestling Team

May 4, 2011 | 4:19 PM

Carlton's Student Newspaper

Reporting by Kim Phan and Devanshi Parekh.

Wrestling- a sport in which 2 opponents try to pin each others’ shoulders to the mat with rules and regulations that they must follow.

Over the past couple of years, Carlton has been proud of the many wrestlers who are dedicated to the sport. We had an opportunity to witness a wrestling tournament here at Carlton and interview the wrestlers. Carlton wrestlers are hard working, courageous, and perseverant.

Practices run almost every day after school, and on the weekends are usually tournaments. On a typical day of practice, wrestlers start with laps, stretches and conditioning. They also practice technical positions.

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“Practices are tough and tiring,” admits Brock Munro, one of the team’s captains. He has been wrestling 6 years now and believes he will be going to nationals. He has not yet lost a match and he hopes that will continue. The other captains are Michael Fehr, Amber Jones and Graham Peterson.

“I believe Brock will do well at provincials, to be the provincial champ and at nationals. I notice the agility and strength in training it takes to come to this point and I’m proud of Carlton’s wrestlers.” Molly Blanchard says.

To win the round, the wrestlers have to gain 6 points. One way to do this is to pin both shoulders of their opponent on the mat to win the round. The wrestlers have to win a total of two rounds to win the match. The point system varies. For one point, you have to get behind the opponent. If you get the opponent on their back, you get two points and if you manage to spin him or her three times in a row while exposing his or her back, you get six points and win the round. If a towel is thrown in, by the people sitting in the side, it means that the match is over.

All of the wrestlers like their coaches. The wrestlers say that their coaches communicate well and yell encouraging words while they are wrestling. If there is an attitude problem, they resolve it by giving the wrestlers consequences and talking it out verbally.

“I love my coaches, they are so good… one time they like threw me while they were teaching us moves!” Shantel Allen proclaims.

“They show us what pain really is,” Tyler Skipper adds.

Even though, most of these wrestlers only have about a year to two years of experience, they are doing amazing! They also hope to continue in the future at the university level if they can find time.

“I enjoy wrestling; it’s different from other sports. It’s fun… especially the adrenaline that you get. It like you want to bite someone” Larissa Uy claims with a smile on her face.