Wrestlers perform a significant amount of physical exercise but it is also important to balance this by exercising our brain as well.  My high school coach once told me: “always have a book in your hand”.   I have come to value this advice and probably do more reading these days than when I was in college.  The benefits of reading are well documented from increasing one’s vocabulary, being a stress reliever, making us better writers, and increasing our overall knowledge on whatever subject we choose to read.  I have found that each book that I read allows me to have some personal growth and can also see it in those who read.  It has been gratifying to know that our coaching staff is a group of avid readers and we would like to share the last three books that the we have read this summer.  Feel free to post the last book(s) that you have read.

Coach Ozzie:

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Still Me by Chistopher Reeve
Becoming the Natural by Randy Couture

Coach Loo:
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

The Honeymoon by James Patterson

Jerry Garcia an American Life

Coach Ulises:

The Soloist by Steve Lopez

Crecimiento Personal a la Mexicana: 7 Principios para Vivir a Toda Madre by Jorge Cuevas

The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte

Coach Audelo:

Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis

Out of The Silent Planet

Perelandra

That Hideous Strength

  Coach Melendrez: Mexican Mafia Tony RafaelIceman: My Fighting Life by Chad Millman and Chuck Liddell My FBI: Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on Terror by Louis Freeh Coach Daren:

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (in 5^th grade)

Macbeth by William Shakespeare (Cliff Notes)

Spiderman, Volume 9 Number 3

Camp Rock by Lucy Ruggles

 Coach Abeyta:  The Art of War by Tzu Sun

The Life and Dath of Crazy Horse by Russell Freedman

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

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