On Wednesday afternoon, the Nebraska Scholastic Wrestling Coaches Association announced a total of 15 people from statewide wrestling programs will be inducted into their 2024 Hall of Fame.
Relieved to do anything – even granting an interview – other than additional grass-cutting on a pleasant August afternoon, Adam Mars couldn’t help but laugh at the notion that his supreme achievement .
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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.
UpdatedWed, May 5, 2021 at 1:30 pm ET
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Longtime Springfield College wrestling coach Doug Parker. (Springfield College)
SPRINGFIELD, MA Doug Parker, a World War II U.S. Army veteran who coached wrestling at Springfield College for 35 years and was the father of longtime Enfield High School wrestling coach Kirk Parker, died April 24. He was 95.
From 1955 to 1990, Parker compiled a career record of 518-169-11, a .750 winning percentage. His teams never had a losing season, and he was named New England Coach of the Year three times. Springfield won 21 New England titles and produced 24 All-Americans, including 1984 Olympic gold medalist Jeff Blatnick.
Parker was a member of the NCAA Division II Wrestling Hall of Fame. In 1999, the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum awarded him the Lifetime Service to Wrestling Award in recognition of his years of dedication to the development of leadership and citizenship in young people through the sport of wrestling.