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Ken Chertow leaving Centre County to start Division II wrestling program from scratch

TDR Editor’s Notes ; Welcome to North Carolina Ken! Great to see another collegiate wrestling program which can help wrestlers in the Carolinas to continue their education and wrestling Look forward to seeing your team in competition.
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Ken Chertow leaving Centre County to start Division II wrestling program from scratch
BY RYNE GERY rgery@centredaily.com
Fifteen years ago, Ken Chertow checked off an item on his bucket list with the construction of his brick home in Boalsburg complete with its own wrestling room. Chertow dedicated his life to the sport, and the specially designed space he calls the Home Training Center allowed him to hold workouts on his property. It features offices and two wrestling rooms, where Chertow trained novice wrestlers in elementary school and worked with PIAA champions and future NCAA All-Americans since 2002. Chertow even installed a custom gate at his home’s entrance on Linden Hall Road, featuring the silhouette of a wrestler and the Olympic rings as another way for him to promote his sport. “People know this is the wrestling house,” Chertow said at the Home Training Center in the last week of March. But after 15 years, the place he trains won’t be the wrestling house in Centre County anymore — there’s a “For Sale” sign near the gate, and Chertow has plans to live in a six-month rental house in Charlotte, N.C., as he begins his tenure as the head coach of a start-up Division II program at Queens University of Charlotte. Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/sports/article143873404.html#storylink=cpy

April 12, 2017 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized