A 1982 graduate of Huntington High School, Bruce Niday wrestled and played football for the Pony Express for three years. He served in the U.S. Army from 1983-85 in an infantry Ranger Unit where he was an honor graduate and received numerous awards. In 1990, Bruce graduated from Marshall University with a B.A. Degree in Liberal Arts. For 25 years, he worked for the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) holding progressively more responsible management positions. While at the BOP, Bruce received numerous awards and was on the Special Operations Response Team (SORT) for ten years. For fourteen years, he was also a substitute teacher at the high school level. Bruce started the wrestling program at Vinson High School in 1991 until 1998 where he had the first state champion and numerous state placers. Due to consolidation in 1998, he coached at the new Spring Valley High School until retirement in 2013 with more state place winners. His team's GPA was always over 3.0 and most wrestlers were on the honor roll. Bruce also worked several wrestling camps and directed several tournaments. Outside of wrestling, he was President of Vinson Football League for 8 years, coached youth football for 10 years and middle school football for 3 years. Bruce and his wife, Teresa married for 26 years are the parents of three sons, Joey, Nicco, and Dane. He had the privilege of coaching all three of his sons who were All-State Wrestlers.