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Shady Spring High School
Tigers -- Wrestling
- Coach: Danny Carter
- Assistant Coach: Mason Epperly
- Assistant Coach: Jeff Lester
- Class: AA
- Region: 3
- Conference affiliation: Coalfield Conference
- School colors: Old gold and navy blue
- School Address:
- P.O. Box 2001
- Shady Spring,
WV 25918
- School Phone: (304) 256-4647
- School FAX: (304) 256-4711
- County: Raleigh
- Coach Address: (Coach Carter)
- P.O. Box 422
- Cool Ridge,
West Virginia 25825
- Coach Phone (Coach Carter): (304) 787-5570
- e-mail address, Coach Carter: jccoolridge@verizon.net
- Athletic director: Deanna Wood
- Principal: Danny Moye
- Directions to school: Exit I-64 at Beaver exit. Take Rt. 305 to
stoplight at Beaver (about two miles). Turn left on Rt. 19 and follow
Rt 19 south to Shady Spring, about 5 miles. Turn left onto Rt 3 East
for approximately one mile. School is on the right.
Coach Danny Carter will continue to head the program at
Shady. Coach Carter is a former SSSHS wrestler (1982-84), having
wrestled under Coach Dix Manning and Coach Snuffer. Carter headed the
Junior High Program from 1991, until becoming the Shady Spring
assistant in 1998.
Assistant Coach Mason Epperly is a two time WV State Champ in 1964 and
1965 and Runner-up 1966. He also wrestled for Coach Dix Manning and had
a son who wrestled and placed in the states in the mid to late 80's,
also Coached by Coach Manning and Coach Larry Snuffer.
For 2008-09 the team is very young and bunched up in the middle weights. Shady is in the
process of spreading the field, and expects to have a competitive team come February with only 4 seniors on the roster.
Shady Spring High School has the wrestling credentials to make anyone's
list of top West Virginia High School wrestling programs. Coach Dix
Manning (AA/A Coach of the year 1981, 1987) began his tenure at Shady
Spring in 1957 and until his retirement in 1998 produced ...
-- State championship teams in 1963, 1964, 1980, 1981, and 1987
-- State runner up team in 1986
-- Seventeen regional championships (including 10 in a row)
-- Fifteen Coalfield Conference championships
-- Over 300 dual meet victories, and
-- 25 individual state champions.
Coach Manning literally coached two generations of athletes at Shady
Spring -- Bill Lester (champion 103 lbs, 1959) and his son Jeff Lester
(champion 105 lbs, 1984). Manning was a charter inductee in the
National Wrestling Hall of Fame, West Virginia chapter.
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Updated 11/16/2007