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Article: WRESTLING; ARROWS' PFEIFFER PUTS BEST FOOT FORWARD-
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- January 11, 2002
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If you would have seen Mark Pfeiffer in junior high school you
would never have expected him to be a high school wrestler - or an
athlete of any kind.
"It actually started before that," Pfeiffer, a Preble Shawnee High
School senior said. "All through elementary school I used to walk
like this . . . with pigeon toes."
Pfeiffer, sitting at a table at Carroll High School and munching
on a sandwich between wrestling matches, quickly backed his chair out
and pointed his feet inward to give a visual description.
"Taught myself how to get out of that," the 171-pounder said as
his teammates tried unsuccessfully not to giggle and smirk.
"Struggled with it the first few years. Now I'm not half bad."
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