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McNutt victory in the women’s 51kg division at the Canadian National Championship
Posted By LJ Matheson
SOURCE: http://www.gananoquereporter.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1505570
THE GANANOQUE REPORTER
APRIL 2009
Gananoque’s Terri McNutt, a member of the Queen’s wrestling coaching staff, captured a victory in the women’s 51kg division at the Canadian National Championship at Regina SK on March 21.
McNutt won all three of her matches by pin-fall, defeated the Niagara Olympic Wrestling club and Brock University member Diana Ford.
The match went an additional two minutes with McNutt decisively winning taking the championship.
“It was just like another match,” she said in an interview with The Reporter. “I thought I would be more excited than I was to win the gold medal.”
As a result McNutt will represent Canada at the 2009 Pan-American Championship in Maracaibo, Venezuela, April 23-25.
McNutt, who is also a nurse at Kingston General Hospital, says her love of wrestling started in Grade 9 at Regiopolis Notre Dame High School.
“I have background in ju jitsu and karate and it carried over to wrestling,” she said.
She is a second dan black and studied under Sensei Leroy Throop for kickboxing.
“I think wrestling is a great sport for children to get involved with,” she said. “It doesn’t matter what your size is, there are weight classes for everyone. Wrestling allows all kids to fit in and there are lots of opportunities to travel and meet new people and make friends. It’s been great to me.”
McNutt says her employer has been “very accommodating” in terms of providing time off for competitions.
“They have been very good to me and I’m able to have other part-timers pick up my shifts and that allows me to take part in these tournaments,” she said.
McNutt says she would love to be able to gain the experience at a national level to prepare her for future championships, but funding is a major roadblock.
“It’s expensive to take part in tournaments, for travelling and accommodations. We get a bit of funding from the club (Kingston Wrestling Club), but that doesn’t cover a lot of the costs,” she said.
McNutt says things like gym memberships and personal trainers are expensive and necessary, but she isn’t able to maintain them with house payments and a nursing job, and trying to make ends meet for her travels now.
Her regime consists of morning workouts on mats and cardio in the morning and late-afternoon practises with the Queen’s team.
Often she goes to other clubs like Ottawa to train with a variety of other people. She’s a two-time national bronze medalist, has two silver medals from the Commonwealth Games and and was second at the Olympic trials.
“Second doesn’t cut it though,” she says of her Olympic effort. “You have to be first.”
That’s her goal — to represent Canada in the 2012 Olympics, but she would like to be able to earn a few more accolades along the way, and that takes funding.
“My co-workers have been wonderful to hold fund-raisers for me, too.”

Winner-take-all bout for world championship berth
Posted By MIKE KOREEN April 2009
SOURCE: Kingston Whig - http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1527690
Terri McNutt can't sit still.
The Kingston wrestler is all over the map these days as she prepares for the biggest week of her sporting career.
McNutt, 26, headed to Toronto yesterday to prepare for Sunday's 51-kilogram clash against Jessica Bondy of St. Catharines to determine Canada's representative for the world championships in Denmark in September.
Immediately after that pressure- packed match, she's heading back home to pack her bags for a trip to Venezuela on Tuesday for the Pan Am championships, which begin on Friday.
The hectic travel period began this past week when she commuted back and forth to Ottawa for training as her regular coach -- Kingston-based Jamie Macari -- was away for a few days.
"I've never been to the Pan Ams or the worlds, so I'm just trying to stay relaxed and focused on wrestling," the Regiopolis- Notre Dame graduate said this week. "Nerves can play a big factor, so mental preparation is key.
"It's tough that everything is so close together, but I've planned out some things and I have a mental game plan in mind, so hopefully I can stay on track."
The actual matches might be the easiest part of the busy period for McNutt, who is staying with a friend in Toronto.
Before a competition, McNutt has to "make weight." It sounds like that is about as enjoyable as standing outside in a T-shirt and shorts during a blizzard.
"You have to decrease your diet and do a lot of sweat-workouts," McNutt said.
What exactly are sweat-workouts?
"I've got this special plastic suit and you sweat it out (while working out)," she said. "It's not the most fun thing."
Beating longtime rival Bondy would be a lot more fun.
The two have squared off at least 20 times with many of their bouts coming in their university days -- McNutt represented the University of Western Ontario, while Bondy was at Brock.
McNutt said Bondy has had the edge in recent matches, but the Kingstonian had some success in earlier battles.
"It's huge," she said. "It decides who goes to the worlds and who gets carding (federal funding). It decides so many important things."
The unique series of challenge matches Sunday is needed because a scheduling conflict arose between the Canadian championships (McNutt won that competition in Regina last month) and a World Cup in China (Bondy was in action at that meet).
Canada's top women's wrestlers all will be in action, including 2009 Olympic gold medal-winner Carol Huynh and two-time Olympic medallist Tonya Verbeek.
Regardless of what transpires Sunday, McNutt will have to refocus in a hurry with the Pan Ams following less than a week later.
"Right now, I'm just trying to focus on Sunday," McNutt said.
After all, a win on Sunday could only increase her confidence level in Venezuela.

MCNUTT WRESTLES TO NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Source: KINGSTON THIS WEEK page 19
Thursday March 26, 2009

Terri McNutt, a member of the Queen’s University wrestling coaching staff, captured a victory in the women’s 51 kg division at the Canadian National Championship.
McNutt won all three of her matches by pin-fall, defeated the Niagara Olympic Wrestling club and Brock University member Diana Ford.
The match went an additional two minutes with McNutt decisively winning taking the championship.
McNutt, a former Regi student has a 2nd dan black belt in Karate and Jiu jItsu and also learned kick boxing in Kingston under Sensei Leroy Throop.
She graduated from high school and went to Western University, but now is back home in Kingston under Queen's wrestling coach Jamie Macari.