Takedown Report

This for Coach Hixon

TDR Note; Life surpasses wrestling yet wrestling can add meaning and direction in life as we are confronted with pain, irrationality, and baffling evil. Our compliments and admiration for Coach Hixon and his wrestlers. Thus we pass this along in memory of his positive impact on fellow human beings.
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CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — “Stoneman Douglas is close.” That announcement came from Coral Springs High School athletic director Dan Jacob as wrestlers, coaches and spectators waited for the District 12 AAA sectionals to start Wednesday afternoon. “Coaches, make sure your teams are ready.” Jacob was more than willing to accommodate the Eagles wrestlers from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. They were on their way from Nativity Catholic Church in Hollywood, some 30 miles away, where they had been attending the funeral mass for Christopher Hixon, their coach and athletic director at Stoneman Douglas. He was one of 17 people killed in the Ash Wednesday massacre at the Florida school just a week before. A Navy veteran of the Gulf War, he had died after racing in a golf cart toward the sound of gunfire, trying to protect the people he considered family. Rest of the story at http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/22532373/marjory-stoneman-douglas-wrestlers-remember-chris-hixon-competing-memory

March 30, 2018 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized