Cary's Winterton earns honor
May 10, 2009
North Carolina
By Tim Stevens
Raleigh News and Observer
CARY - Jerry Winterton, the wrestling coach at Cary High School since 1981, has been named the National Wrestling Coaches Association's 2009 National Coach of the Year.
Winterton's teams have won 608 matches and lost 33 during his 36-year coaching career. Twenty of the losses came during his first three seasons, when he coached at East Wake High.
Winterton has coached 48 individual state champions, and the Imps have won 19 state titles, including the last five N.C. High School Athletic Association individual tournament team championships.
"I am flabbergasted," Winterton said. "It is unbelievable. I don't put myself in that class of coaches. I'm just a wrestling coach at a high school down in North Carolina. I really don't understand how this could happen."
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