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Cunningham is winner of 2018 Terry McCann Award as USA Wrestling Men’s Freestyle Coach of the Year

Casey Cunningham (State College, Pa./Nittany Lion WC) has been named the winner of the 2018 Terry McCann Men’s Freestyle Coach of the Year by USA Wrestling. This is the first time that Cunningham has won this prestigious award. Cunningham has been the Assistant Coach at Penn State University for 10 years, which has won four NCAA team titles in a row, and eight of the last nine NCAA team titles.

He is a coach with the Nittany Lion Wrestling Club, which is the Regional Training Center affiliated with Penn State. The Nittany Lion WC is among the most successful RTCs in the nation, producing successful freestyle wrestlers on the Senior and age-group levels. Cunningham was one of the personal coaches of David Taylor, who won a 2018 World gold medal at 86 kg. Taylor was named the 2018 United World Wrestling International Freestyle Wrestler of the Year, as well as the 2018 USA Wrestling Freestyle Wrestler of the Year. The Nittany Lion WC has produced a number of Senior Freestyle National Team members during Cunningham’s years there. Included was 2012 Olympic champion Jake Varner and past World Team members Zain Retherford and Les Sigman. Rest of the story and details at https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2019/April/04/Casey-Cunningham-named-USA-Wrestling-Freestyle-Coach-of-the-Year?mc_cid=cddd2f8a2c&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

April 7, 2019 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized