Yearly Charity Event
Greetings Hammers, this year for our annual charity event we're donating to a local church that works with the homeless and families that are below the poverty line. They are in desperate need of tarps and sleeping bags this year to sleep in as the cold months come. So I'm asking that each Hammer family try to bring a tarp or sleeping bag to practice sometime next week so that we can do something positive for the community. If you are blessed this year, then bring in more tha
Just Let 'Em Play
This may surprise some of you...but we coaches actually read a lot (okay...maybe not like "a lot," but we read "some"). We're currently reading and passing around the book "Just Let 'Em Play," by Dr. Andrew Jacobs (one of the top sports psychologists in the country and who works with the KC Royals), Jeff Montgomery (Royals Hall of Fame pitcher), and Peter Malone (USA National Team Swimming Coach). These authors are infinitely smarter than us, which is why as coaches we always
Congrats on the Top National Ranking
Trackwrestling.com just updated their national rankings and our very own Ben Higgins tops the list as the country's top-ranked 8-year-old 65 pounder. This ranking has less to do with "talent," and everything to do with work ethic. In the two years that he's been with Team Hammer he's only missed one workout because of the flu. His smiling face is always the first one in the room and is one of the last to leave, and that's with a 40-minute drive each way. For all you Hammers t
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