Coach Waters Announces Wrestling Camp Lineup

Posted April 2, 2018
Filed under FMS News

Fishburne Military School Coach Draws Champions

Waynesboro, VA — Fishburne Military School Head Wrestling Coach, Terry Waters, has just announced the lineup of clinicians for his annual Summer Wrestling Camp

Fishburne Military School Cadet Matthew Farrar (Waynesboro, VA) earns James G. Hogg Award

Coach Terry Waters with Fishburne Military School’s State Champion Matthew Farrar

hosted at FMS. As usual, the Caissons wrestling guru and local coaching legend has arranged for a full slate of Olympic, National, and All-American champions to help him bring a love of the sport to the next generation of young athletes.

This year’s Featured Clinicians include:
 Quentin Wright: 2x National Champ, 4x All American for PSU
Kerry McCoy:  2x Olympic Medalist, NCAA Champ, Head Coach Univ. of Maryland
Brian Brunk, Head Coach, Messiah Col.
Mike Helm NCAA Champ, Messiah Col.
Devin Carter  NCAA Runner Up, Va. Tech
Joey Dance NCAA All American, VTech
Carl Adams, 2X NCAA Champ, ISU
Camp Counselors:
Mark Hall: NCAA Champ, PSU
Vincenzo Joseph, 2X NCAA Champ, PSU

Under his leadership, the 2017 Fishburne Military School Caissons earned the Division II State Championship, sent 9 wrestlers to the State Championships, and 3 to the National Championships. Waters is among the state’s winningest wrestling coaches.  He has coached 12 state champs, 22 state runners up, and has been named coach of the year seven times.  His 2002 and 2004 high school teams went undefeated. Prior to coming to Fishburne Military School he was an assistant coach at Washington and Lee Univ.

Waters has been operating his Summer Wrestling Camp for more than 30 years now and has guided countless young wrestlers to a greater appreciation of the sport and its techniques.

The 2018 camp will run from June 10th until June 14th for wrestlers in grades 5-12. The camp is limited to 80 participants.

Applications can be downloaded from the Quicklinks section at the bottom of Fishburne.org or may be requested by emailing Coach Waters at: twaters@fishburne.org.

Fishburne Military School is the oldest and smallest of all military schools for boys in Virginia. Its college-prep curriculum is built on the structure of an Army JROTC program. FMS has been designated as a JROTC Honor Unit with Distinction and may nominate qualified candidates to the United States Service Academies. Fishburne hosts one of only four Summer JROTC programs in the nation that is accredited by US Army Cadet Command.