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David Taylor, Penn State’s Legendary Wrestling Champ, Becomes Head Coach at Oklahoma State

Taylor, Penn State’s first Olympic gold medalist and a three-time world champ, replaces John Smith as the Cowboys’ head coach.
David Taylor, the two-time NCAA champion who helped launch Penn State’s stratospheric rise in college wrestling, is the new head wrestling coach at Oklahoma State. The Cowboys announced the hire Monday night, making a seismic move in college wrestling akin to what Penn State did in 2010 by hiring Cael Sanderson.
Taylor, a three-time world champion and Olympic gold medalist, becomes a first-time head coach for of the nation’s most historic college wrestling programs. Taylor replaces John Smith, who announced his retirement in April after 33 seasons, five NCAA team titles and 23 conference titles. Taylor operates the M2 Training Center in State College but has not coached or recruited at the college level, making this one of wrestling’s most fascinating hires since the Nittany Lions plucked Sanderson from Iowa. … more at … SI.com/Penn-state-wrestling-oklahoma-state-hires-nittany-lions-wrestling-legend-david-taylor
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Olympic champion David Taylor hired as Oklahoma State’s next wrestling coach, replacing John Smith
By Jim Carlson | Special to PennLive
It would be difficult to think the conversation that Cael Sanderson generated when he announced in 2009 that he would be leaving his Iowa State job to become the head coach at Penn State wasn’t among the most — if not the most — jaw-dropping, head-turning news ever in college wrestling.
Until now, when reigning Olympic champion David Taylor, Sanderson’s former Penn State athlete and current Nittany Lion Wrestling Club mentor, decided to leave the NLWC and his business ventures in State College and become the head wrestling coach at Oklahoma State.
Taylor reportedly accepted the job on Monday night, … more at … Pennlive.com/Oympic-champion-david-taylor-hired-as-oklahoma-states-next-wrestling-coach
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More reports at …
Pokesreport.com/Oklahoma-state-hires-olympic-champion-david-taylor-as-next-wrestling-head-coach
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Baschamania.com/David-taylor-is-the-new-head-coach-at-oklahoma-state
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Flowrestling.org/David-taylor-hired-as-next-oklahoma-state-head-wrestling-coach
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Pistolsfiringblog.com/Olympic-gold-medalist-david-taylor-named-head-coach-of-cowboy-wrestling
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Intermatwrestle.com/OSU-hires-david-taylor-as-head-coach

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