Head wrestling coach North Catholic High School (PA), Social studies teacher, University of Mount Union alum ‘13, @usawrestling bronze certified coach
Joined November 2022
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Apr 1
North Catholic High School located in Cranberry Twp, PA is looking to fill a paid varsity assistant coach position for the 26-27 season. Any interested candidate should reach out to Coach Lyles at dlyles@northcatholic.org
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Once again
Football 🤝 Wrestling
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Utah State TE Chris Cooley was taken 81st overall in the 2004 NFL Draft
♦️All-American HS Wrestler was 54-0
♦️2× Pro Bowl (2007, 2008); 9 seasons
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♦️All-Sun Belt; Utah State HOF
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Jun 4
We are very excited to be launching youth wrestling for students in our Diocesan schools this Fall. We are holding camp for anyone that wants to try out wrestling before the Fall.
Use the link below or the QR code to register. Please spread the word!
nchs.formstack.com/forms/nc_…
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Apr 15
Congratulations to North Catholic senior Angelo Amelio on being named to the Pennsylvania Wrestling Coaches Association’s All-Academic Wrestling Team!
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Apr 10
Kids today will never know the joy of having to go in the hallway to look at brackets on the wall to see who you wrestled next.
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Apr 8
Kirk Cousins has his sons wrestling because he wants them to become “irrepressible.”
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Apr 2
HS Athletes: When you're 25 you're going to realize that the people who demanded your best were also the ones who cared about you the most
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Mar 29
One of the most influential figures in wrestling history passed on March 29, 2026. J Robinson competed for Oklahoma State and qualified for the 1972 Olympic Greco team before a legendary coaching career.
Robinson was an assistant under Gary Kurdelmeier and Dan Gable (1972-84) at the University of Iowa before leading Minnesota to NCAA team titles in 2001, 2002, and 2007. The Golden Gophers were the first team outside Iowa or Oklahoma to win multiple D1 NCAA titles in men’s wrestling.
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J Robs impact in wrestling will live forever. Legends never die. Sad day.
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J Robinson was an Army Ranger in Vietnam, a Greco 1972 Olympian, Gable's assistant at Iowa for 9 titles, built Minnesota into a power winning 3 titles, and his camps were the best in the country (earn a shirt).
A legend that you can't write the history of wrestling without.
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The J Robinson wrestling camps changed my life. Totally changed my perspective on life and increased my metal toughness to a level I didn’t think I had in me. I don’t wrestle in college and get the experiences in life I got to have without that camp. Thank you coach and rest easy
Minnesota wrestling mourns the loss of legendary Gophers head coach J Robinson.
Rest in peace, Coach.
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Mar 29
Pretty cool note I got from a tech CEO/founder who watched NCAAs about hiring wrestlers:
“I'll say this: without question my favorite hiring profile is a D3 All-American wrestler. You competed in the darkness. No lights, no crowd, sometimes literally no one watching. You showed up anyway and you figured it out. Give me 10 of those guys and they're worth 50 fancy Ivy League degrees. Every time. The mat doesn't lie.”
Thoughts?
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Mar 25
I think that defense and scrambling has got way better so it’s just harder to score now because of it
I love wrestling. But this shows a lot about our ruleset. I want to appreciate the NCAAs and not immediately critique everything, but stalling is a problem. And the answer is to not call more stalling, it is to incentivize less stalling by rewarding offense.
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Mar 25
Also, we want less edge wrestling but we are going to incentivize people to go to edge and use to score??
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It's one of one. Doesn't mean the wrestlers at the Worlds or Olympics aren't more skilled, just that folkstyle wrestling over 3 days in this atmosphere at the highest level at the end of the season is something that provides a challenge unlike anything else in the world. ❤️💪
Mar 20
There is nothing like the NCAA tournament. Worlds is cool, the Olympics is cool, but NCAAs is DIFFERENT. I truly believe some of the best foreigners in the world couldn’t handle the NCAA tournament.
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Mar 19
Its that time of year again, when a significant portion of the toughest people on earth all gather together in one place, also known as the NCAA D1 Wrestling Championships.
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Mar 13
Check the wrestling shoes section.
Wrestling is the most affordable sport there is. Anyone who has the guts and the character can be a wrestler.
Mar 12
🚨 MOM WALKS INTO A SPORTING GOODS STORE AND LOSES HER MIND AFTER SEEING A $500 KIDS BASEBALL BAT — “THIS IS PRICE GOUGING”
A mom filming inside a sporting goods store says she thought she was just grabbing a bat for her kid’s season.
Then she checked the price tags.
One bat on the rack: $500.
Right next to it: $450.
Then she looks at baseball mitts.
One youth glove: $330.
“I don’t care what the material is … unless it’s made out of solid gold it ain't worth $300."
Next she checks the equipment bags.
$450.
Parents watching the video say youth sports equipment prices are getting completely out of control.
Some say it’s starting to feel less like inflation and more like straight up price gouging targeting families.
Between bats, gloves, bags, cleats, and league fees, some parents say a single baseball season can now cost thousands of dollars.
Are sports stores price gouging parents… or is this just the new normal?
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Mar 12
Congratulations Brady!
Congrats to junior Brady Wehner for surpassing the 1,000 point mark last night ‼️
We’re so proud of you 🫶🏻
#Trojanettes ❤️💛
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Mar 12
Map of all the hometowns of the 2026 NCAA national qualifiers (from the continental USA).
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