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Show Page 8 The Gunnison Valley Gazette Thursday, July 5, 2007 Satterfield to play linebacker at Snow College by MITCH PETERSON After a high school sports career that featured a state wrestling championship and all-state honors in football, former Gunnison Valley High School star Chad Satterfield is headed to Ephraim to play linebacker for perennial junior college football powerhouse Snow College. Satterfield has been working on a Satterwhite logging crew this summer, but he’s found time to hone his skills. He joined other invited players from across the country in Hawaii’s annual King Kamehameha Pigskin Classic earlier this month. Utah and Georgia players teamed up for seven days in Honolulu. “It was fun to get to know people from across the country, people with different lifestyles,” Satterfield said. “We bonded quickly as a team.” With only a couple days of practice, Satterfield’s Utah-Georgia squad won both of their games, highlighted by a 12-0 shutout over South Texas. He also played in the Utah High School All-Star game Saturday, June 23rd on the campus of Judge Memorial High School in Salt Lake City. Satterfield was on the 2A team that went up against a team of 3A allstars. He saw a lot of playing time as the 2A team gave the bigger schools a battle. The game was 0-0 in the third quarter before 3A scored a couple times to win it 15-0. Satterfield had offers from other schools in wrestling and football, but chose to play for the Snow College Badger football program.”It’s a great coaching staff,” Satterfield said. “They win, they’re a powerhouse. It will be good to have a shot at a national championship.” The Badgers finished the 2006 campaign with an 11-1 record and a #2 ranking in the National Junior College Athletic Association’s final poll after defeating Coffeyville, Kansas in the Zion’s Bank Top of the Mountains Bowl, played annually at Rice-Eccles Stadium on the campus of the University of Utah. The Badgers were ranked #1 until a late season loss at Eastern Arizona. The Badgers have produced some topnotch linebackers over the years. Former North Sanpete star Brett Madsen is seeing time at the position for the University of New Mexico after two productive years at Snow, while former Badger Derek Smith has earned starting roles for the Washington Redskins and San Francisco 49ers in a stellar National Football League career. Snow’s football coaching staff ap- Wrestling Camp For 6th grade and up July 12, 13 & 14 at the Gunnison High School Wrestling Room 6 to 9 pm on the 12th & 13th 8 am on the 14th Questions call Coach Mark Christenson 435-851-2131 The camp will be run by the Wright Brothers Remember When... Keith Peterson, Sophmore Class President and Gerald Mellor, Sophmore Class Vice President - 1967 Sponsored by HERMANSEN’S MILL Satterfield playing in the recent 2A All Star game. proached Satterfield halfway through the high school wrestling season last winter and offered him a chance at a walk-on tryout. But after he won the state championship, they invited him a to play as a non-scholarship athlete without the tryout. He also had offers to wrestle at Utah Valley University and Southern Virginia, as well as a football offer from Peru State College in Nebraska. Everyone notices Satterfield’s hard work, including Snow College linebackers coach Britt Maughan. “In addition to watching game film- he’s obviously a great athlete- we look for a lot of intangibles, and he’s always exhibited a great work ethic,” Maughan said. “We also liked his competitiveness and his involvement in other sports.” Jay Yardley, Satterfield’s wrestling coach at Gunnison last year, also appreciated his work ethic. “And he’s so coachable,” Yardley said. “He’d come to me and ask ‘how do I counter this move, or how do I adjust to that?” At the 2A state wrestling tournament last spring, Satterfield wrestled in the 215 pound class at about 196 pounds. “He was giving up almost 20 pounds to some of the other guys,” Yardley said. He beat Manti’s Courtesy Photo James Geloff in the final. Satterfield and Geloff, a talented wrestler who took second place the year before, battled five times during the season. Geloff won the first match, then Satterfield won four in a row, including the state championship final. Satterfield and Yardley knew they had to keep working and developing strategies. “We’d have to make adjustments after every match to beat James” Yardley said. Kelli Satterfield, Chad’s mother, says he’s always given his best. “He’s never done anything half-way, even as a child,” she said. “In fact, his pet peeve is people who don’t give a full effort.” “I spend all my spare time in the weight room,” Satterfield said. “I’ve been doing push-ups and sit-ups since I was five. It’s always been my goal to make it to the National Football League. If I work harder than the next guy, hopefully I’ll end up on top.” Snow College head football coach Steve Coburn, an ex-wrestling coach, knows wrestlers make good football players. He says he likes Satterfield’s aggressiveness in both sports. “Plus, he’s just a good young man,” Coburn said. “We like to get the right players, and he was the right player for us.” The Gunnison Valley Gazette now offers online subscriptions! Check it out on www.gunnisonvalleygazette.com Your Hometown Newspaper! 204 South 1st East • Gunnison 528-3136 Feeds • Grain Storage • Fertilizer Seeds • Farm Supplies • Chemicals Do Your Best Do Your Best is sponsored by: Peterson Refrigeration and Mechanical 550 South Main, Gunnison • 528-3365 Sanpete County 4-H Workshop The Sanpete County 4-H will be holding a “Catch the Entomology Bug” workshop at the GBEEC (Great Basin Environmental Education Center) in Ephraim Canyon on Saturday, July 21st. It will start at 9:30 am and run until 2:30pm. It is for kids from kindergarten through 12th grade. Children from K-2nd grade must be accompanied by an adult. All attendendees need to bring their own lunch and sunscreen. You must pre-register by calling Debbie at 238-7597 or Valerie at 238-7599 by July 18th. There will be experts from Utah State University to teach us about Entomology. Everyone will rotate through workshops in the morning that will let them explore the world pond bugs, learn parts of an insect, learn how divide the insects into categories, and go on a bug hunt. In the afternoon, they will put what they learn into practice and make a bug aspirator and a killing jar, learn how to pin their insects, play games, and do other on hand activities. When they are done with the workshops they will have started their own bug collection that they can continue to add-on to throughout the summer. This workshop will also cover some requirements in scouting. Come and “Catch the Entomology Bug”. Hurry and register because space is limited. HEAP WEEK of the megan pedro This week’s Heap of the Week goes to Megan Pedro. 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