Duane Harney (center) poses with others after recently receiving the Robert Roethler Award from the Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame. Photo submitted.
CRESCO Local youth wrestling fixture Duane Harney was recently honored by the Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame with their Robert Roehler Awared, recognizing his decades of dedication to the sport.
Harney wrestled at Woodward-Granger from 1969-72. He began officiating wrestling in the early 1980’s. Harney has served as a junior high coach for W-G and was the head varsity coach from 1991-2000.
He retired after 37 years at Barr Nunn Transportation in Granger, having most recently served as Vice President of Maintenance. Along the way his wrestling ties generated a friendship and working relationship with Iowa State head coach Bobby Douglas. Harney was on the ISU Wrestling Club board for five years, serving as board president for two years.
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Bill Dotson, the longtime head wrestling coach at the University of New Mexico before the program was cut by the school in 1999, has died.
Dotson, 81, died late Saturday afternoon of heart failure in Albuquerque, said his oldest son Charlie.
“He not only was a good man and liked to laugh, he was also a lucky man,” said Charlie Dotson, the oldest of four siblings and Eldorado High’s head football coach.
At UNM, where he coached from 1980-1999, Dotson coached five Division I All-Americans, and twice was the Western Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, in 1989 and 1999. The school eliminated the program in April of that year.
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Press release via the Jamestown Athletic Department
JAMESTOWN, ND. – The University of Jamestown is pleased to announce that Jim Zalesky is the new men’s wrestling coach.
A member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, Zalesky brings a track record of success to the University of Jamestown.
“We are thrilled that Coach Zalesky has decided to lead our men’s wrestling program,” says University of Jamestown Director of Athletics Sean Johnson. “He is a perfect fit for our institution and our department and will provide tremendous leadership for our men’s wrestling student-athletes.”
“I’m excited to be part of the University of Jamestown family and look forward to leading the Jimmie men’s wrestling program to success in the classroom, the community, and in competition,” says Zalesky.