Commonly known as Doc, Erich has helped provide opportunities for students to participate in wrestling for years. He started his involvement with Connecticut wrestling in 1989 when his son joined the New Milford High School wrestling team.

Because of his scientific background, he stared tracking his son's stats but that quickly turned to tracking the team's stats. That proceeded shortly to spending hours in the Danbury News Times with his wife Neen to obtain the stats dating back to the beginning of New Milford Wrestling in 1972 codifying that in an annually published booklet. Since that time Erich has been New Milford's wrestling historian.

Doc started to help run tournaments and computerized the seeding process saving hours of time. He founded the New Milford Tournament crew, with Bill Knipple, Mike Morris, and Pete Bellagamba, and served as the meet director for more than 80 tournaments, including the Western Connecticut Conference (WCC), Southwest Conference (SWC), Western New England Independent School Wrestling Association (WNEISWA) championship tournaments, Canterbury's annual tournament and New Milford's annual tournament, one of the longest running tournaments in the state (35 years).

In 1998, he and his wife, Neen, were co-founders of the New Milford Wrestling Association, with Erich serving as president from 1998 through 2003. He has served as treasurer from 2014 to present. Along with Mike Morris and Pat Burns he started the New Milford Elementary and Middle School wrestling programs. He organized fundraising golf tournaments for the youth wrestling organization from 1999 through 2004 along with bake sales and tags sales.

Since 2009, Erich has served as vice president and treasurer of the Connecticut Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. He is cofounder, member of the Board of Directors and treasurer of Connecticut Wrestling, Inc.

In 2005, Doc and Neen instituted and continues to fund the Oma Doubek Wrestling Scholarship awarded to the senior, four-year wrestler with the highest GPA.

Outside of wrestling, Doc is a board member and treasurer of the Northville Cemetery Association; co-founder, board member and treasurer of the Edsands Farm Lane Road Association and was a board member and treasurer of the Northville Residents Association.

Posted by Connecticut Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, May 2022
Profile photo taken circa 2021