Mark Andrew Faller is indeed a unique and extraordinary wrestling coach in many aspects ofhis career. Succeeding his graduation from Port Jervis High School, where he was a stellar high school athlete, Mark matriculated at Harvard University and played both varsity football (two years) and wrestled for four years on behalf of the Crimson. During his span at Harvard, Coach Faller was a three-year qualifier for the Division I Championships. Moreover, in 1970 he was a runner-up at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships, and during the 1970 and 1971 seasons he was named to the First All-Ivy League Team. In 1976, Mark was an alternate on the United States Greco-Roman Olympic team. Mark graduated cum laude from Harvard with a dual major in Physics and Philosophy. Dr. Mark Faller wrote his honor thesis on "Evolutionary Order and the Second Law of Thermodynamics." His achievements on the mat and the classroom exemplified the true meaning of a college student athlete. Following Harvard, Mark returned to his alma mater, Port Jervis High School and assumed the reigns of the wrestling team. His stay at Port Jervis speaks for itself. His teams were League Champions from 1975 to 1980 and Section IX Champions 1976 to 1980. Furthermore, in 1977 and 1978 the Port Jervis Raiders, under Coach Faller, were New York State Champions and runner-ups in 1980. In the last five years of his career the Raiders were a lofty 70-2-1 and had crafted the wrestling history of the entire Banach family - Steve, Ed and Lou. Ed and Lou went on to win Olympic Gold and five NCAA titles for the Hawkeyes of Iowa. Colonel Steve Banach, the 2017 Outstanding American Award winner for the Upstate New York Chapter, stated "Dr. Mark Faller is the preeminent ambassador for wrestling on both the national and world stage. Mark's unmatched intellect, toughness, caring personality and creative coaching acumen changed the lives of hundreds of young men who he coached during his high school and college coaching career." Lou Banach, 1994 Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, added the following about Dr. Faller: "Once in a lifetime, someone enters your life and you are never the same. Mark is that person for my brothers and me, our community and our sport. We will never be the same, forever elevated!" Subsequent to his career at Port Jervis, Mark launched a teaching and coaching career at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. At F&M Mark achieved a very respectful 122-104-1 record completing in the NCAA Division I category despite the absence of athletic scholarships. The Diplomats enjoyed big wins over EIWA foes Wilkes, Princeton and Lehigh, and in 1983-84 Mark was elected the President of the E.I.W.A. Coaches Association. Jay Weiss, a wrestler for the Diplomats and presently Harvard's coach stated, "Coach Faller makes you believe in yourself." It was also at this time that he was the coach of the World Deaf Team (1984-89) and the 1985 and 1989 Deaf Olympic Teams. The next step for Mark was seven years of instructing and completing all the course work obligatory to securing his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Georgia. While at Georgia he taught philosophy and worked as the Executive Coordinator for the Graduate Student Association. His PhD dissertation was "Plato's Philosophical use of Mathematical Analysis" and he also found time to coach the University of Georgia Club Wrestling Team who were two-time SEC Champions. Mark finished his illustrious career as a Professor of Philosophy at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage and worked as a volunteer/part-time coach at various clubs and schools in Alaska. He was the coach for the Chugach Freestyle Wrestling Club, the Avalanche Wrestling Coach and the State Coach of the Alaska Cadet and Junior Teams. In addition, he coached at East Anchorage High School, Chugiak High School and the South High School producing outstanding wrestlers at each school. While coaching high school in Alaska, Dr. Faller coached six high school wrestlers who received Division I scholarships. The Upstate New York Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame takes extreme pride in inducting Dr. Mark Faller into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.