Pete Meyers: Comments on Honors Weekend 2018

“Wow...what a great weekend it was!

A couple of months before the HOF induction weekend I was in panic mood as HOF Committee was asking for photos, trophies, and newspaper articles of the accomplishments of my teams. I never had scrapbooks of my state champs or collected news articles of my best teams, but I had all the memories of my wrestlers and team accomplishments up in my head. I told Wilbert Johnson, the guy that nominated me, that I had no documentation for the HOF weekend ceremony. Wilbert somehow organized former wrestlers of mine to get news articles, sneak into school trophy cases and get championship trophies, and do a nice display for my induction!

I reckon the thing that tickled me the most was seeing wrestlers I had in the 1980's and 1990's see each other for the first time since high school and talk about the good times. I just sat back and smiled and had such a glow inside me as I remembered how those kids were lost but found a purpose in the wrestling team that I coached. It brought me to tears seeing how so many of them are a success today, being great family men and great fathers, and by their words saying thank you to me for having developed them into great men and citizens! “