GREYHOUND GRAPPLERS
Coming off a season in which the Greyhounds were consistently one of the top teams in the region and a strong contender for a spot in the state team duals championships, building on that success has continued during the summer.
And if offseason enthusiasm is to be believed for indicating the future, this winter should be another successful one for the Greyhounds.
“Our numbers have been huge this summer, especially from the middle schoolers,” Greyhounds head coach Adam Gillhouse said. “Our motto is to raise the standard. The goal each year is to be better than the previous year. We want to use this time of year to get better.”
Gillhouse says that the summer’s voluntary workouts are typically made up of weightlifting for an hour and wrestling on the mats from roughly an hour and a half and the workout being modified for middle schoolers.
The Greyhounds ended last week by getting work in at Vidalia High School, but that was not the main attraction.
That was Omi Acosta, head wrestling coach at Life University being in town along with other wrestlers and coaches from his staff to work on technique with the Greyhounds. The Eagles are coming off a secondplace finish at the NAIA nationals with three winning individual championships.
One plus of Acosta being in for the session, Gillhouse says, was that the technique that he teaches is similar to that instilled by JCHS coaches. Through that, the bedrock of what the Greyhounds are taught is reinforced.
“What we teach is similar to what they do, so them hearing the same thing from a different voice by someone who has had success in college, it’s important,” Gillhouse said. “It’s huge for them to hear from someone who has been at a high level and to learn from him and pick up on trends he’s seeing in wrestling and for us to build on that.”
