Matt Everson and Saint Thomas Academy
By Brian Jerzak
For programs that are not traditional wrestling powers, traditional victories don't always come right away. Improvements start with more subtle victories. New Saint Thomas Academy co-head coach Matt Everson used mini-wins to help build the East Ridge program into a section champion. Now, he hopes to do something similar at STA.
Everson is a second-generation wrestler.
"I was four years old when I started wrestling. My dad wrestled in high school and a little bit in college. His brother was a national runner-up for an NAIA school – Northern State University - in Aberdeen, South Dakota. I have an older brother and a younger brother; we all wrestled growing up. Wrestling became part of our DNA."