Takedown Report

Pecora is on verge of becoming college wrestling’s dual wins king

TDR Editorrr’s Notes ; A topic of great interest to us is the record and recognition of the college coaches and teams and their record of victories. We look forward to Coach Pecora setting a new record and hope to be there when it happens, possibly next season,…. or the next.
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The coach who next year could become college wrestling’s king of dual wins scored his biggest victory seven years ago. Pat Pecora took down cancer. That’s only part of the story. The longtime leader of the Pitt-Johnstown Mountain Cats started coughing up blood in 2012. It was months after his brother passed away following a battle with cancer. Pecora tried brushing off his symptoms. But his wife, Tracy, is a nurse and she insisted a trip to the doctor. “They found something in my upper lung,” Pecora said. They discovered cancer. Doctors removed the upper lobe of Pecora’s lung and released him from the hospital the next day with orders to rest at home. He was back in the wrestling room a day later. “I had to move, get on the stepper, something,” he said. Then Tracy Pecora walked in.

She came home and couldn’t find her husband. It didn’t take her long to find him. “She walked in, and I’m sure I had that look of a kid who’s just been caught playing hooky,” Pecora laughed. “She wasn’t happy.”  That illustration of zeal and dedication is just one snapshot in a four-decade mosaic that is Pecora’s incredible coaching career. The 65-year-old will wrap up his 43rd season this weekend when the Mountain Cats wrestle at the Division II NCAA Championships in Cleveland. Pecora’s tenure at Pitt-Johnstown began a response to a newspaper clipping when he was 22. Rest of the story at https://www.trackwrestling.com/PortalPost.jsp?TIM=1551841188386&twSessionId=psyjvhdtip&postId=1374594132&mc_cid=00b365ee12&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

March 30, 2019 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized