Great way to end the RTC season - nice work area guys and Manchester

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Coach Burlingame will be pushing us into Central Regionals.

 

Come on over and practice.

 

Matt Burlingame enters his seventh year as the head coach of the Manchester College wrestling program. He spent the 2006-07 year as the assistant wrestling coach at Manchester and helped coach the Spartans to a third place finish at the Midwest Regional. Additionally, two of his wrestlers qualified for the DIII National Championship and one became Manchester 's 22nd All-American. Matt has twelve years of coaching experience as well as a Division I wrestling background. 

 

Prior to joining the Manchester program, Matt coached high school in Kansas, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. In his coaching career, he coached five individual state champions, seven state place winners and numerous state qualifiers. He also helped coach these teams to league and regional championships and two top ten finishes in the state tournament.

 

Matt graduated from Virginia Tech in 1995 with a B.S. in Fisheries Science.  While at Virginia Tech, Matt was a four-year starter and three-year co-captain for the Hokies’ wrestling program. During his tenure, Matt was a Virginia Intercollegiate League State Champion and three-time place winner, a four-time Colonial Athletic Conference place winner and graduated 10th on the Hokies’ all-time win list.

 

Following graduation from Virginia Tech, Matt received a M.S. in Biology from Kansas State. Matt and his wife, Julie, and their three children Emma, Elijah, and Isaiah reside in North Manchester.

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32 wrestlers tonight to watch Jordan Knudsen of Manchester college teach manchesters foundation drills, stand ups and tilts- live was great- we had 32 wrestlers from Jeff, Floyd and new Albany- including 5 semi state qualifiers, and 4 current/former all staters in the mix for live. Great Rtc season- good luck southern Indiana!