Jan 15, 2015
In just the fourth year of wrestling at Maryville University,
coach Mike Denney led his Saints to the championship at the NWCA
Division II National Duals in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Denney, who's patrolled the edge of the mat as a wrestling coach at
the college and high school level for nearly a half-century, won
seven Division II titles as the head coach at Nebraska-Omaha.
When Denney's UNO program won its third straight Division II title
in 2011, his program was unceremoniously dropped by UNO
administrators with new Athletic Director Trev Alberts leading the
charge.
Then Maryville came calling, literally, days after the
announcement.
After packing up Omaha and the house he lived in for 37 years,
Coach Denney and a handful of other UNO castoffs headed to St.
Louis to start a wrestling program. Denney calls it a "delightful
challenge."
Four years later, the Saints are No. 1 in Division II.
Denney talks about the scenario that led to coming to Maryville,
his dreams of competing in the NFL and his semi-pro football career
in Omaha and then on to coaching and building a culture at
Maryville and previously, at "that other place."
The Saints beat Notre Dame College for the Division II championship
and Denney explains how he built the program and what it's going to
take to win the Division II title this year.
It's an engaging, informative and engaging interview with one of
the most amazing coaches in the sport of wrestling, Maryville's
Mike Denney.
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