Wednesday, February 18, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Hudson is SHS’s new strength coach Don’t fall for the
grandparent scam
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
Sisters athletes have an
opportunity to get a whole
lot stronger — and to make
themselves more injury-resis-
tant — with help from an elite
coach.
Ryan Hudson is a record-
breaking weightlifter and the
trainer and operator of Level
5 Fitness in Sisters. Starting in
March, he will be the strength
coach for the Sisters Outlaws.
And his coaching is avail-
able for all Outlaws, not just
members of sports teams.
“Ryan will conduct five
to six workouts a week at
Sisters High School,” said
Sisters High School (SHS)
Athletic Director Tim Roth.
“These workouts are open to
all interested parties at SHS.
Workouts will occur before
school and after school to
ensure all interested stu-
dents will have access to our
programs.”
Roth noted that the school
district has specific outcomes
in mind for their students:
• Promotion of all students
becoming lifelong learners of
health, wellness, and fitness.
• Strength and condition-
ing for all students, which will
assist with injury prevention.
• The teaching of proper
technique, flexibility, and
drafting of workouts to ben-
efit all students.
Hudson believes that
building strength is critical to
athletic performance.
“There’s not a single sport
where strength isn’t the most
important element involved,”
Hudson said. “The most com-
mon denominator for victory
is strength — so strength is
king.”
That’s true for obvious
scenarios, like an offensive
lineman trying to hold off the
defensive rush in football, or
a wrestler trying to overcome
an opponent on the mat. But
it’s equally true for a skier
using leg strength to pop
around gates on a long, fatigu-
ing slalom course, or a tennis
player fighting it out in a tight
final set. And strength matters
to a youth who just wants to
get out and hike the moun-
tains of her home country.
Strength training also
correlates directly to injury
prevention. A strong athlete
puts less strain on joints and
ligaments.
Off-season strength train-
ing is critical, but requires a
smart program and follow-
through to be worthwhile.
“There has to be an active,
present coach there on a daily
basis,” Hudson said.
The schools agreed, and
raised funds to get the coach-
ing slot out of the blocks.
“All parties involved
understand the funding source
and that all journeys begin
with a single step,” Roth told
The Nugget. “We feel that this
is a step that is worth taking.
We will continue to fundraise
and look for sustainable meth-
ods to fund this position.”
While strength training
has become more common,
especially with the high-pro-
file success of Crossfit-style
training, many misconcep-
tions persist, including the
hoary myth that weight train-
ing for teens will stunt their
growth. And some athletes
and their parents worry that
weight training might leave
students sore and tired and
actually interfere with their
performance.
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
photo provided
ryan Hudson will build strength in
outlaws students.
Hudson is uncompromis-
ing on that score. Making
training in the skills of your
sport your only training is not
good — a recipe for subpar
performance and injury.
“The culture, the mindset
of Sisters and America in gen-
eral has gone soft,” he said.
“The fact that the schools
never even had a strength
coach is kind of indicative of
the direction of the program
and the community in general
to this point.”
Hudson has a thriving pri-
vate training practice, a young
family, and an active career as
a weightlifter, which puts his
time at a premium. But he
believes strongly in the value
of strength training and he’s
willing to make it work.
“It’s coming out of my
downtime, so it’s feasible,” he
said. “It’s tight and it’s a push.
It seems like the need is great
enough that it’s worth it.”
For more information on
strength training programs
for Sisters High School stu-
dents, contact Tim Roth at
541-549-4045.
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The caller is convincing
— and cunning. He’ll con-
vince you that he’s a relative
in trouble with the law per-
haps in another state or even
a foreign country, skillfully
drawing information out of
you and feeding it back, lur-
ing you into sending money
to “save” your imperiled
loved one.
It’s a fraud, usually
referred to as the “grandpar-
ent scam,” and it was tried
on a Sisters man recently.
A caller claimed to be the
man’s grandson, who had
been caught up in a drug
bust and was in jail “in the
middle of the country” and
desperately needed funds so
he could get arraigned and
get out of jail. A friend of
the Sisters man was on hand
— a former member of law
enforcement who got on the
line, asked a few probing
questions and unmasked the
scam.
Still, the former cop told
The Nugget, the acting on
the other end of the line was
so good and the technique
for eliciting information so
subtle that the scam sounded
good even to a guy who
knew what was up.
It’s easy to fall prey to
such scams, which focus on
the elderly, preying upon
their good nature and desire
to help loved ones.
The FBI reports that “the
grandparent scam has been
around for a few years — our
Internet Crime Complaint
Center (IC3) has been receiv-
ing reports about it since
2008. But the scam and
scam artists have become
more sophisticated. Thanks
to the Internet and social
networking sites, a crimi-
nal can sometimes uncover
personal information about
their targets, which makes
the impersonations more
believable. For example, the
actual grandson may men-
tion on his social networking
site that he’s a photographer
who often travels to Mexico.
When contacting the grand-
parents, the phony grandson
will say he’s calling from
Mexico, where someone
stole his camera equipment
and passport….”
To avoid becoming a vic-
tim, the FBI recommends:
• Resist the pressure to act
quickly.
• Try to contact your
grandchild or another fam-
ily member to determine
whether or not the call is
legitimate.
• Never wire money
based on a request made over
the phone or in an email —
especially overseas. Wiring
money is like giving cash —
once you send it, you can’t
get it back.
If you receive a scam
phone call, contact local law
enforcement to report it.
For more informa-
tion, visit www.fbi.gov/
news/stories/2012/april/
grandparent_040212.