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Accomplished wrestling coach Denney to give Dakota Wesleyan commencement address

The Daily Republic, Mitchell, S.D.
Mon, Apr 15, 2024, 7:49 PM EDT·2 min read

Apr. 15—MITCHELL — Micheal “Duke” Denney, a 1969 graduate of Dakota Wesleyan University, will be the keynote speaker at the DWU commencement at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 5, at the Corn Palace. The title of Denney’s speech is “This is Holy Ground.”
The Clearwater, Nebraska, native came to DWU on an athletic scholarship to play football and to wrestle. After graduating in 1969, he and his wife, Mitchell native Bonnie Gaetze, moved to Omaha, where Denney spent 10 years teaching math and coaching high school wrestling before moving to the University of Nebraska-Omaha, where he coached until 2011. He then moved to Maryville University in suburban St. Louis and started the wrestling program. Denney retired in 2023.
His record and résumé are filled with records, including multiple national NCAA Division II team championships; many NCAA Division II individual champions; hundreds of Division II All-Americans and scholar All-Americans; and academic national team championships. Denney was named 2011 InterMat Coach of the Year which recognized him as the top college wrestling coach across all NCAA divisions; was named the NCAA Division II Wrestling Coach of the Year three times and is a member of the NCAA Division II Wrestling Hall of Fame. He is a member of the DWU Athletics Hall of Fame, was named a Distinguished Alumnus in 2021 and was the DWU Alumni Coach of the Year in 1997. … more at … Sports.yahoo.com/accomplished-wrestling-coach-denney-dakota

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