ARIZONA FOOTBALL

Wildcats take on soldiers at Fort Huachuca’s Warrior Skills course

Aug 13, 2013, 6:40 PM | Updated: Aug 14, 2013, 1:36 am

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The University of Arizona football team wrapped up its training camp at Fort Huachuca with a competition against against the soldiers who are based there.

The Warrior Skills Course at Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista is an obstacle course featuring wall climbing, hurdles and ditch traversing and, to conclude coach Rich Rodriguez’s camp, the Wildcats took on the base’s most athletic soldiers in a race across it.

The video below doesn’t make it clear who, exactly, won the contest, but it does feature stellar highlights of Wildcats football players dominating non-football athletic activity.

Note: Despite the description from the Arizona Wildcats official YouTube channel, the uniformed military members competing in the video below are in the Army branch of the U.S. Military. They are not Marines, as the article stated before this change was made.

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