Wrestling Team Camp I

July 10-13, 2013
Cost
Full Resident: $295 (all meals, housing, materials)
Day Camper: $255 (noon and dinner meals, materials)
Commuter: $195 (materials only — no meals)
Application deadline: June 26, 2013
Printable Registration Form
Campers wishing to pay with a credit card, please follow this link and instructions.
For the Coach or Team Representative
Step-by-Step Team Camp Registration Instructions
The Luther College Team Camps have grown into some of the best and biggest in the Midwest! Last year over 70 teams and 1000 athletes from 7 states participated in our three outstanding team camps.The camps are growing each year, and limited space is available. Be sure to enroll early!
Camp Director
In the last eleven years, Dave Mitchell has coached the Luther wrestling team to six top-five finishes at the NCAA Championships. He has coached eight national champions, four national runners-up, and 45 All-Americans. He has also coached 33 Scholar All-Americans and two NCAA Post Graduate scholars. Dave was named the NWCA National Division III Coach of the Year in 2004, and Iowa Conference Coach of the Year in 2008, 2004, 2002, and 1999; he was nominated for Division III Rookie Coach of the Year honors in 1997 by the National Wrestling Coaches Association and USA Wrestling Magazine. Dave is currently serving a three year term as president of the NCAA Division III National Wrestling Coaches Association. In 2010, Dave was inducted into the NCAA Division III National Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
Before joining the Luther wrestling program Dave earned All-American wrestling honors by placing third at the NCAA Division III championships at 167 pounds. He was also a two-time NCAA Academic All-American and was selected to the GTE Academic All-America squad his senior year.
Featured Clinicians
All 2013 camps will feature outstanding clinicians—recent clinicians have included NCAA Champions Brent Metcalf, Tim Hartung, Jay Borschel, Zach Roberson, Jayson Ness, TJ Williams, Jeff O'Gara, Matt Pyle, Nate Hansen and All-Americans Derek St. John, Jason Welch, & Travis Paulsen, as well as Olympians Cael Sanderson and Brandon Slay and National H.S. Coach of the year Jim Jackson. You'll learn from the best at our camps!
Camp Counselors
The Luther Coaches and Team, including . . .
Jeff O'Gara
Luther Assistant Coach
NCAA Champion
Jeff Friedhof
Decorah High School Coach
Three-time NCAA All-American
Billy Huebner
Luther Assistant Coach
Director of Midwest Extreme Camps
Dusty Jentz
Wisconsin State Champion
Evan Obert
Wisconsin State Champion
Trent Flegel
Two-time All-American
Kyle Windquist
NCAA National Qualifier
Cody Orr
Two-time Missouri State Runner-up
Tim Ostby
Minnesota State Runner-up
Garrett Bonte
Wisconsin State Runner Up
Angelo San Juan
Illinois State Place-winner
plus many others!
Team Camp Goals
This well-organized team camp incorporates live wrestling with top-level technique and team building activities making it one of the best and most popular team camps in the Midwest. The camp will focus on promoting team unity while developing championship level technique and providing each camper with 10-plus live matches. Each team will be assigned a "camp coach" and will receive quality feedback from that coach throughout the camp. You will receive more one-on-one attention at this team camp than any other you have attended! The camp will close with an individual tournament and awards ceremony.
Special Features
- Each team will receive complimentary room and board for one coach for each 10 campers in attendance; additional coaches may attend for $115
- Head Coaches will receive a complimentary gift, as well as admission to coaches socials
- "Camp Coach" will provide quality instruction for your team
- Two one-hour sessions focused on building team unity
- One one-hour intensive "Train Like a Norseman" session
- Ten-plus live matches per camper
- Walnut wood trophies to top three teams, high quality T-shirts for "Wrestling of the Day" award winners, and individual tournament winners receive a key chain
- Certified athletic trainer on staff
- Each camper will receive our popular "Train Like a Norseman" T-shirt
- Each team will receive a team photo, along with a press release sent to your hometown newspaper after the camp, with photo
- At the conclusion of camp, Coaches will receive a packet with the duals results, as well as completed brackets from the Individual Tournament
- Regular updates on "Luther College Wrestling" Facebook page and on Twitter @LutherWrestling for your parents and friends to follow
Tentative daily schedule
Day 1
| 7:15-9:00 p.m. | Technique Session |
| 9:00-9:45 p.m. | Camp Rules |
| 10:00 p.m. | Pizza |
| 11:00 p.m. | Lights out |
Day 2
| 8:15-9:45 a.m. | Team Building Activity |
| 9:45-11:30 a.m. | Technique Session |
| 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00-1:45 p.m. | “Train Like a Norseman” Session |
| 2:00-5:30 p.m. | Duals Meets |
| 2:00-5:30 p.m. | Coaches Instruction |
| 5:45-7:00 p.m. | Dinner |
| 7:00-7:45 p.m. | Technique Session |
| 7:45-9:45 p.m. | Duals Meets |
| 9:45-10:00 p.m. | Coaches Instruction |
| 11:00 p.m. | Lights out |
Day 3
| 9:00-10:00 a.m. | Team Building Activity |
| 10:00-11:00 a.m. | Technique Session |
| 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00-4:30 p.m. | Duals Meets |
| 4:30-4:45 p.m. | Coaches Instruction |
| 4:45-6:30 p.m. | Dinner |
| 6:30-8:15 p.m. | Duals Meets |
| 8:15-8:30 p.m. | Coaches Instruction |
| 11:00 pm | Lights out |
Day 4
| 8:30-11:30 a.m. | Individual Tournament |
| 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Awards Ceremony |
Housing and Meals
Campers live in a comfortable, air-conditioned residence hall on the Luther campus and eat in the Dahl Centennial Union dining hall. College athletes serve as camp counselors and provide full supervision and help direct all camp activities. Medical services for campers are available through local clinics, as well as the emergency room at the Winneshiek Medical Center. Individual campers are responsible for any medication, and hospital and physician fees.
Luther College Sports Facilities
Regents Center indoor facilities include six tennis courts; a six-lane, 200-meter track; six full-sized basketball courts; 25-yard, six-lane swimming pool; locker, training, and equipment rooms. The Legends Fitness for Life Center offers a strength and fitness facility with its own climbing wall. The outdoor facilities include 12 tennis courts, a cross country race course, fitness trails, and an all-weather track, which was installed in the fall of 2009.
Attending one of our Team Camps and our Intense Train Like a Norseman Camp provides a great camp experience at a fraction of most 9-day camps!
Additional Luther Wrestling Camps
- Technique Camp: June 17-20, 2013
- Intensive "Train Like a Norseman" Training Camp: June 17-21, 2013
- Norse "Big Man on Campus" Camp: June 17-21, 2013
- Team Camp I: July 10-13, 2013
- Team Camp II: July 15-18, 2013
- Team Camp III: July 21-24, 2013
For more information, please contact:
Coach Dave Mitchell—phone (563) 380-2760 or e-mail mitch@luther.edu
