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Special pullout section Friday, February 15, 2008 8 Pages Circulation 21,220 www.independentfreepress.com Castaways presents Run For Your Wife Page 7 Big Tyme boxers post big time wins Page 3 SPORTS AND LEISURE Halton Hills Community Newspaper Achilles Mazda Acton 519.853.0200 866.620.3248 www.achillesmazda.ca Looking for a makeover this year? Achilles Mazda has all the genuine Mazda accessories youl need! Going aw Going away this weekend? Don forget your genuine Mazda roof rack! Football season may be over for another season in most peoples minds, but Georgetowns Elliott Montag is currently laying the foundation for what he hopes is a fruitful gridiron career. The Grade 11 Christ the King High School student and standout lineman is in the midst of a 12-week high- performance academy program in Mississauga called Sports Specific Training (SST) with a goal of preparing himself to play at the U.S. college or Canadian university level, and perhaps even professionally. The 6-foot-2 Montag, who was named to the Toronto Stars Metro High School All-Stars at the guard position, will work out three or four times a week at the SST centre on top of his sessions at high school and Borelands Gym, concentrating on different body parts each day to avoid repetition. Hes also going to have step up his nutrition intake as part of the SST program in order to reach his ideal weight of 245 pounds. Im actually not a big eater but (SST) wants me to eat seven to nine meals a day, with about 400 grams of pro- tein in every one. Thats going to be a lot of food, he sur- mised. The whole purpose is to try to bulk up and add some pounds, but at the same time increase my speed and agili- ty. Montag has had to give up his other sporting interests, basketball, hockey and swimming, in order to devote all his energy to football, which had already been taking up a lot of his attention. Most Grade 9 students are fortunate to be a starter of any kind on a junior high school squad, but Montag was playing on both the offensive and defensive line as a 265- pounder for the CtK senior Jaguars in his first year, along with the all-important long-snapping duties on punts and field goal attempts. He also plays during the summer months for the Ontario Varsity Football Leagues Mississauga Warriors as a centre and just for a change next year plans to line up as a linebacker for CtK. Its as a snapper, however, that could earn Montag a full scholarship ride south of the border as his attention to detail and training already has Canadian schools such as McMaster and Queens rav- ing about his talents. Its just one more thing on the resume, he said confi- dently. Snappings an attribute that hopefully makes you more appealing to schools and its something I keep working at, switching to new techniques to accommodate the NCAA or CIS. I always had a pretty decent throwing arm and then I was taught how long snap one-handed. I worked on that until I went to a camp at Notre Dame and they told me not do it that way because the ball wouldnt come out of my hand fast enough. So I basically watched other play- ers and theres stuff on the Internet to teach you and I developed my own two-handed technique, constantly working on speed and accuracy. Moose Montag was a key reason that CtK won its first-ever football title in 2006 when they defeated rival Georgetown for the Halton Division II championship. His physical abilities aside heres a lineman who can throw the ball 55 yards Elliotts a great leader for us and he keeps everyone on the ball, Jaguar assistant coach Timm Stephenson. Montag hopes bigger leads to better shot at football career St. Brigids Emily Hubbard (right) struggles for control of the ball against Holy Rosary's Shannon Ruthven during the final of the eighth annual Holy Rosary ele- mentary girls basketball tournament held Saturday at the Milton school. St. Brigid, from Georgetown, fell in the final 24-6. Photo by Graham Paine The Halton Hills Jr. B Bulldogs and the Brampton Jr. A Excelsiors will once again be holding a joint evaluation camp for the 2008 campaign. Workout sessions will take place Saturday, Feb. 23 from 5-7 p.m. and Saturday, March 1 from 5-7 p.m. at the Ken Giles Recreation Centre in Brampton. All players will need to sign their pre-printed form from last year prior to stepping on the floor. If you are under 18, your parent or guardian must be present to sign your regis- tration form prior to stepping on the floor. If you are from a centre outside of Halton Hills or Brampton you will need a photocopy of your signed pre- printed form that you have signed from your minor lacrosse member association you were registered with in 2007. The cost is $10 for both weeks. For more info, contact Bulldogs GM Mike Hancock at mhancock2@cogeco.ca. On the ball Bulldogs, Excels to hold workouts Grade 11 Christ the King student Elliott Montag, seen here playing with the Ontario Varsity Football Leagues Mississauga Warriors, is in the midst of a 12-week high-performance academy program called Sports Specific Training, which he hopes will prepare him to play at the U.S. college or Canadian university level. Submitted photo EAMONN MAHER Staff Writer See MONTAG, pg. 3