Sports Briefs

Sentinel Staff
Thursday, June 14, 2012

June 16, 25

Golf for Life

Operation Golf for Life at the Courses of Clear Creek offers a series of clinics to help beginners learn everything from how to hold a club and schedule tee times,

to winning techniques and how to play.

These clinics are free, one-hour sessions with the course’s PGA golf pro and equipment, and they’re available to authorized Family and MWR patrons (special priority given to active-duty military).

Sessions take place from 10-11 a.m. Saturday, (only open to Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers), and 5:30-6:30 p.m. June 25.

Contact the Courses of Clear Creek to sign up. The Courses of Clear Creek is located in Bldg. 52381, on Battalion Avenue at Clear Creek Road. For more information, call 287-4130.



JUNE 21

Paralympics Adaptive Experience

The key to being an exceptional athlete is to always do your best and never give up. Such qualities are found in Paralympians, whom face adversities and exhibit exceptional athleticism.

Fort Hood’s Child, Youth & School Services’ Youth Sports & Fitness program has a remarkable opportunity for youth to learn various adaptive sports in a sports clinic setting, while competing against one another

in a true adaptive sports scrimmage.

U.S. Paralympics Adaptive Experience takes place from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. June 21 at Abrams Physical Fitness Center.

This event is free and open to all. For more information or to arrange accommodations, due to a medical disability, call 288-2214.



ONGOING

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu class

Looking for a chance to improve your grappling skills?

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt Jarrod Clontz, who was the coach of the III Corps Combatives Team, teaches a Jiu-Jitsu class from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the Fort Hood Combatives Training Facility inside Kieschnick Physical Fitness Center.