Last week’s Wetherington Chiropractic Clinic Athlete of the Week Carson Lane of Memorial Day School - 08.15.2015

Last week’s Wetherington Chiropractic Clinic Athlete of the Week is rising 7^th grader Carson Lane of Memorial Day School

Carson Lane & Karl DeMasi

On August 7^th, ESPN.GO.COM posted a Facebook video of a 7^th grader, Carson Lane of Memorial Day School. The video shows Carson’s throwing form that he uses to play baseball. The reason this video is special is Carson only has use of one arm, which was the result of a birth injury that left his left arm paralyzed.

The birth injury called Brachial Plexus injury is a loss of movement or weakness of the arm. It occurs when the collections of nerves in the shoulder (called the Brachial Plexus) are damaged during birth. Carson had numerous surgeries that brought back 40-50 percent movement, but the 11-year-old still has to use his own technique to play on a high level travel baseball.

Carson is not shy; he plays baseball, basketball and football. He played baseball for the Bone Crushers Traveling Baseball team before taking off last year to watch his older brother’s senior baseball season at Memorial Day School. What’s also amazing Carson had been playing sports all his life and ironically baseball since he was 4 years old. His father Ken said, “Carson is your typical boy, and nothing is going to stop him from playing any sport. Carson knows that he needs to practice improving like any other teenage athlete.”

Carson said, “The reason why the video was made was in hope of getting one of the young stars of Major League Baseball, Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout to notice so I could possibly meet him.” However, the video has taken off, and that’s how ESPN.GO.COM got hold of it and posted it. The video is getting so much attention and shows that anybody can play any sport if you work hard at as Carson has. Another great sports story, but most of all it’s about an amazing kid, Carson Lane.


ESPN.GO.COM video site - http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=13397224

The Wetherington Chiropractic Clinic Athlete of the Week - Team Savannah Weightlifter Michael Cohen Jr. - 8.08.2015

The Wetherington Chiropractic Clinic Athlete of the Week - Team Savannah Weightlifter Michael (Mikey) Cohen Jr.  - 8.08.2015

Will Cohen, Howard Cohen, Mikey Cohen

Mikey Cohen of Team Savannah captured his fourth 2015 Youth Junior Nationals Weightlifting title in the 94kg weight class on June 29^th in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Cohen took gold medals in the Snatch and Clean and Jerk. Weightlifting is in Mikey’s blood.

 

Mikey’s dad Michael Cohen Sr. is a former Olympic weightlifter and renowned weightlifting coach and instructor in the USA and across the world. Cohen’s Grandfather Howard Cohen is recognized as the father of weight training in Savannah Georgia and has won numerous gold medals himself. Michael’s younger brother Will Cohen finished second in the 69kg weight class also at the 2015 Youth Junior Nationals. Mikey and Will both have qualified for the 2015 Youth Pan American Championships on September 15, 2015 in San Luís Potosí, Mexico.

 

As of this writing Howard Cohen 83 captured the the gold medal in the 69-kilogram class in the 2015 World Masters Cup in Dallas a week after the show. Cohen, competed in the men’s age 80-and-above division and won the 69kg weight class with a lift 165 pounds. Howard won the 2014 World Championships also. Cohen now will compete next at the 2015 American Masters in Savannah on Nov. 12-15.

The Wetherington Chiropractic Clinic Athlete of the Week- Savannah Junior Golf Association Golfer Sarah Edwards 8.01.2015

Last week’s Wetherington Chiropractic Clinic Athlete of the Week for August 1, 2015 was Savannah Junior Golf Association Matt Warren Girl’s Tournament Winner Sarah Edwards. The Savannah Junior Golf Association’s summer tournament series season-ending Matt Warren Memorial Championship was held on July 28^th and 29th at the Savannah Golf Club. Sarah captured the two day 36 hole event by shooting a 172 and was 32 strokes better than her closest competitor. Oh, by the way, Edwards is only 14 years old.


During the 2015 Savannah Junior Golf Association summer series, Sarah did not lose a match. Edwards won all six events she entered, and she played at the top Savannah golf courses. Those courses were the Wilmington Island Club, Savannah Quarters Country Club, Southbridge Golf Club, Savannah Harbor Golf Club, Crosswinds Golf Course, and the Savannah Golf Club.


Last summer, Sarah entered the Drive, Chip, and Putt National Competition and just finished out of the top two players in her age group. The two golfers went on to play the finals of the Drive, Chip, and Putt competition at the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta last April. As of this article, Sarah and her two sisters, Ella, and Gracie were playing in the national sub-regional of the Drive, Chip, and Putt competition at the Landings Country Club right after her appearance on the Karl DeMasi Sports Report.