July 16-19, 2012

Cost
Full Resident: $290 (all meals, housing, materials)
Day Camper: $250 (noon and dinner meals, materials)
Commuter: $190 (materials only — no meals)

Application deadline: June 30, 2012
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 one of the best and biggest in the Midwest! Last year over 60 teams and 1000 athletes from 7 states participated in our two outstanding team camps.The camps are growing each year, and limited space is available. Be sure to enroll early!

Camp Director

In the last ten 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 44 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.  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 2012 camps will feature outstanding clinicians—recent clinicians have included NCAA Champions Brent Metcalf, Zach Roberson, TJ Williams, Jeff O'Gara, Matt Pyle, Nate Hansen and All-Americans Jason Welch, Jayson Ness & 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

Jake Everts
Iowa State Champion

Trent Flegel
NJCAA All-American

Kyle Windquist
Two-time NJCAA National Qualifier

Stephen de la Cruz
Two-time Junior College All-American

Cody Orr
Two-time Missouri State Runner-up

Daniel Mendoza
Two-time Arizona State Champion

Garrett Bonte
Wisconsin State Runner Up

Eric Moreno
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

1. Each team will receive complimentary room and board for one coach for each 10 campers in attendance; additional coaches may attend for $110
2. "Camp Coach" will provide quality instruction for your team
3. Two one-hour sessions focused on building team unity 
4. One one-hour intensive "Train Like a Norseman" session
5. Ten-plus live matches per camper
6. Walnut wood trophies to top three teams, high quality T-shirts for the "Wrestling of the Day", and individual tournament winners receive a key chain
7. Certified athletic trainer on staff
8. Each camper will receive our popular "Train Like a Norseman" ringer-style T-shirt
9. Each team will receive a team photo, along with a press release sent to your hometown newspaper after the camp, with photo
10. At the conclusion of camp, Coaches will receive a packet with the duals results, as well as completed brackets from the Individual Tournament

Tentative daily schedule

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.

Additional Luther Wrestling Camps

• Technique Camp: June 18-21, 2012
• Training Camp: June 18-22, 2012
• Big Man Camp: June 18-22, 2012
• Team Camp I: July 11-14, 2012
• Team Camp II: July 16-19, 2012
• Team Camp III: July 22-25, 2012

For more information, please contact:
Coach Dave Mitchell—phone (563) 387-1713 or e-mail mitcheda@luther.edu