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# Sherwood rounding out two solid careers for Hollis Brookline football, wrestling
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- Published: 2017-12-20T21:28:38.000Z
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- Description: Over the history of New Hampshire high school athletics, there have been several student-athletes with the rare ability and opportunity to play four years of a varsity sport. Clement Sherwood has been one of those student-athletes at Hollis Brookline High School, but as he gets close to the halfway
- Author: Joe Marchilena
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Over the history of New Hampshire high school athletics, there have been several student-athletes with the rare ability and opportunity to play four years of a varsity sport.

Clement Sherwood has been one of those student-athletes at Hollis Brookline High School, but as he gets close to the halfway point of his senior year, he's not only on the verge of being a four-year varsity athlete in two sports, he's doing it in perhaps two of the most unlikely.

After helping lead the HB football team to its second-straight Division II playoff appearance in the fall - and third time in his four years on varsity - Sherwood is embarking on his final season with the Cavaliers' wrestling team, of which he's also been in the varsity lineup since freshman year.

"It’s been eye-opening how fast it goes by," Sherwood said. "I just worked as hard as I could, improved as much as I could. In wrestling, I had a great practice partner who really pushed me. Same with football, the varsity kids, the older kids, really pushed me. That really helped me and they were accepting."

It was easy to assume Sherwood was older than a freshman during that 2014-15 year, when he played on the offensive and defensive lines for the Cavs, and was in the wrestling team's varsity lineup at 220 pounds. But along with his size has come a desire to work as hard as he can to keep those spots.

"It’s one of those things that people don’t see, but Clem embodies, he’s willing to put the work in," HB wrestling coach Brian Bumpus said. "He’s been in the weight room every day since the beginning of the school year at 5 o’clock in the morning. He’s lifting weights, working out.

"When he transitioned from football to wrestling, his workouts transitioned. He’s doing a lot more cardio and he’s doing that without anyone saying anything. He knows that’s what it’s going to take. He’s been like that since he was freshman. He came in and was willing to work."

That work has Sherwood in position to finish with a solid wrestling career at HB. He enters Wednesday's dual meet against Merrimack with an overall record of 102-49, with 68 pins, and has placed at the Division II meet in all three years, including second at 220 the last two. He was also third at the Meet of Champions in 2016.

This year, Sherwood will try to eventually get down to wrestle at 195, but has spent most of the year so far at 220.

"It’s definitely a little different," he said of having to cut weight for the first time. "I have to cut back on my diet and eat salads. I’m running six miles a day, some in the morning, some before practice."

Bumpus admits that Sherwood could have been wrestling at 195 earlier on in his high school career, but giving up weight to an opponent was never something that bothered him.

"He’s wrestled up every year and you can’t do that with every kid," Bumpus said. "It takes a special kid to come in and accept the fact that he’s going to be giving up weight like that. This is his opportunity to settle into his weight class and we’ll see how it goes."

HB football coach Chris Lones, who coached Sherwood at the middle school level before both moved up to the high school in 2014, was always impressed with how well his captain moved for a player his size.

"If we put all the kids in a line and had them run 40-yard dashes, or a 50 or a 100, or shuttles, I bet he finishes in the top five, or the top 10, in every single drill," Lones said. "He’s the guy I wouldn’t trade for anything. I’ve been coaching him since he was a sixth grader and he’s always been one of the biggest guys on the field."

With the wrestling season already well underway, Sherwood knows the pressure is greater to accomplish the things he's set out to do.

"As I got older, I knew more was expected of me," Sherwood said. "As a freshman, you’re just there and you go do what you do. As you get older, the expectations rise. You don’t want to disappoint the coaches, you don’t want to disappoint yourself."