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Family mat-ters: Father-son coaching duo Bob, Tyler Gonzales to lead rival wrestling programs

TDR Editor’s Notes ; An interesting story that will develop over the upcoming matches and seasons. We look forward to seeing how it goes. The state of Kansas has two good wrestling coaches and promoters here.
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For as long as he can remember, Tyler Gonzales has looked to Bob Gonzales as a coach, confidant, mentor and, most of all, a devoted father. When the 2019-20 high school wrestling season rolls around, Tyler and Bob will add another element to their father-son dynamic — squaring off as rivals.

Tyler Gonzales, who won a Class 5A state championship for his dad at Shawnee Heights in 2004, has accepted the position of head wrestling coach at Junction City, archrival of Manhattan, where Bob has coached for the past 14 years. Tyler, 32, informed his father and other family members of his decision during a recent dinner in downtown Topeka. “We were all out at dinner and I started telling everybody what my choice was going to be and I think the initial look on my dad’s face was a little bit of shock,” Tyler Gonzales said. “But then we started talking, and I think how me and my dad have started looking at this moving forward is we’d rather wrestle each other and have to fend each other off for a state title than some Wichita or Kansas City school.

“We’ve had the uniqueness of him being in my corner when I won a state title and him being in my corner when I wrestled for my second. We’re shared some really cool opportunities, and we’re just kind of chalking this up as something else that we get to share with each other.” Bob Gonzales admitted that he was surprised when Tyler first told him he was headed to Junction City, but he is confident the Blue Jays are getting a good young coach. Rest of the story at https://www.sjnewsonline.com/sports/20190408/family-mat-ters-father-son-coaching-duo-bob-tyler-gonzales-to-lead-rival-wrestling-programs?mc_cid=4d4f632655&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

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