For him, his whole life has been wrestling, coaching and teaching, and now he can go back to that.

Being a wrestling coach is the hardest job I've ever done. It's harder than teaching, harder than going to Stanford, it's mentally and physically draining and after five years I was worn out. That tells a big tale about how much energy and passion a coach like Bert has. He did it for 25 years.

He's certainly brought a lot of prestige to the wrestling program here.

We start out the year like no one knows anything about wrestling, then we tweak the more advanced kids. And no one here will lose a match because they are out of shape.

That was a huge match. It's the one time (overtime) in wrestling when you can stall. You hold your man down, you win. That was a very close match.

He's a highly-skilled kid. He's been wrestling for more than half his life.