Allen County Kids Wrestling Club will hold its annual fall youth wrestling clinic next week at Iola High School.
Registration deadline is Thursday. The clinic fee is $10, which includes a T-shirt.
Next Wednesday the clinic is for kindergarten through fifth grade boys and girls along with middle school students. It will be from 6 to 8 p.m. on the mezzanine in the IHS gym.
Next Thursday is 6-9 p.m. for sixth- to 12th-grade students. Enter through the northeast doors to the school.
Featured at this year’s clinic is Terry Pack, founder of Legend of Gold Wrestling Camps in South Dakota. Pack is a former Neosho County Community College head wrestling coach.
Pack coached the NCCC wrestling team to its 2000 NJCAA national championship and was national coach of the year. He has coached 32 wrestling All-Americans and nine national champions.
Also helping with the clinic are Bodgan Ciufulescu and Aurel Ciufulescu, members of the Rumanian world wrestling team. Bodgan was a 1996 Olympic wrestler.
John Taylor, Allen County Mat Warriors coach, and former NCCC head wrestling coach for men and women, is helping with with clinic. He coached the Ciufulescus at NCCC.
Registration forms were handed out to the schools. They can be obtained at the Iola Recreation Office in Riverside Park.
For more information contact Stephanie McDonald at 620-228-2792.
Wrestling clinic is Nov. 3-4
