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Tocci has been a key contributor to wrestling’s recent growth

TDR EDitor’s Notes; An excellent article from Track Wrestling about an effective booster for our sport… Pat Tocci.
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Spend some time with National Wrestling Coaches Association senior director Pat Tocci and a couple of his driving forces become apparent.  Tocci loves wrestling.  He wants others to have opportunities to love it, too.  Tocci grew up in a wrestling family in the heart of a Pennsylvania mat hotbed — the Lehigh Valley. His father, Pat, was his first coach. His cousin, Pat Santoro, a two-time NCAA champion, is the head coach at Lehigh. Another cousin, Rich, and his uncle, Dick, were both All-Americans at Lehigh.  Tocci himself placed third in the state while wrestling for Liberty High School in Bethlehem. He finished third at Junior Nationals, and won an Espoir national title in Greco-Roman before he went on to wrestle at Brown. “Both my mom and dad sacrificed a lot for me, for all their kids,” Tocci said. “They stressed being our best, academically and athletically, but they did whatever they could to support our goals. My sister, Joleen, ended up running for West Virginia University. They sacrificed and were demanding, but were always supportive of us in what we enjoyed.”

Family vacations were dictated by Tocci’s summer competition schedule. “We were often in Lincoln or Cedar Falls, centered around my wrestling,” he said. “Those were our vacations.”  After graduating from Brown, Tocci … Rest of the story at https://www.trackwrestling.com/PortalPost.jsp?TIM=1562592115195&twSessionId=wqmwcmnnfc&postId=1669302132&mc_cid=6d22b573bb&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

July 10, 2019 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized