By Ed Piper
Weekend wrestling can pay its dividends, from all appearances, as Viking wrestlers continue their participation in off-season tournaments at Poway High, where years ago the coach who married my high school's Homecoming Queen (her photo was the cover for the 1969 El Alacran yearbook) established a powerhouse program that continues to today.
Noah Pace, the La Jolla 108-pound freshman who went 5-0 in the Eastern League and was named all-league, suffered a broken nose recently and didn't compete last Saturday (March 18).
But his father, Joe Pace, is leading a group of prep grapplers into this weekend's tourney at Poway. The matches are unique because they involve freestyle and Greco-Roman forms. (I'll have to ask the coaches what that means.)
Another cool thing in the Viking wrestling sphere was a clinic put on yesterday (March 23) featuring Shakur Rasheed, a Penn State All-American, at Mira Mesa High. If I didn't have such a basketball-conducive body, I'd be excited. (Someone told me this past season that there are tall wrestlers who are successful.) Wrestlers on the team email list were invited to attend--hopefully, some of them will share in the future how that presentation was. (There was a $40 advance, $50 at-the-door entry fee for the event.) La Jolla ought to think about something like that for the future.
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