Assistant Coach: Matthew Kahn mfkahn@graniteschools.org
Assistant Coach: Rick Roby rick@drycanyonfr.com
Tryouts: November 6
Event Schedule
Practice Schedule: Wrestling Room
Mornings: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday: 6 am-7am and Friday: 6 am – 7:30 am
Afternoons: Monday – Friday: 2:30 pm – 4:45 pm
Coach Halliday on Wrestling
I started wrestling when I was 7 years old. My dad asked if I wanted to try wrestling and I said, yes. The next thing I knew I was taken to a wrestling club called, “the Salt Lake City Grapplers.” Our age group was called the “Little T-ville Tough Guys”. We practiced at Taylorsville with a bunch of other kids my age and I wrestled up through high school and did a couple of independent tournaments in my 20s.
I became a coach when a friend, whom I introduced to wrestling in middle school, called me in 2018 and told me he was offered the head coach position at Cottonwood High School and needed an assistant. I was recovering from a shoulder surgery at the time and wasn’t working so I agreed and now I’m the head coach after he moved to Ohio. Wrestling has always been a passion of mine and I always wanted to coach. This was a great opportunity to get started.
Wrestling is not only the toughest sport, but also the most rewarding. It teaches physical and mental toughness. It has taught me how to be tough in hard situations. It also teaches confidence and humility. Wrestling is a sport that everyone can do and be successful. A lot of sports require you to be a certain body type. In most sports, you need to be tall. Some of you have to be super fast. But with wrestling, that doesn’t matter. I’ve seen successful wrestlers who are blind, deaf, have no legs, no hands, and all body types. The key to being good at wrestling is hard work, patience, focus, and persistence. If you can do that, at the end of a long and exhausting match you will experience the euphoria of your hand getting raised!
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