Tom Ryan - Ohio State Wrestling Coach
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Episode 557
Tom Ryan is the Ohio State wrestling coach. He is a two-time NCAA Coach of the Year in 2009 and 2015 and led the Buckeyes wrestling program to a 2015 NCAA National Championship.
The three-time Big Ten Coach of the Year has coached six different Ohio State wrestlers to 12 individual national titles including four-time champion Logan Stieber and Olympic gold medalist Kyle Snyder.
His teams have finished as NCAA runner-up in 2008, 2009, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
On this episode of the podcast, Tom shares his powerful and courageous story of losing his 5 year-old son Teague, finding the good among tragedy and how a crisis of faith brought him to fully trust in Jesus.
Follow Tom on Twitter: @Buckeye158
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| 0:39.2 | with Tom Ryan from Ohio State and the Buckeyes wrestling coach. |
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| 1:18.3 | Ronblue.com. Ronblue.com. Today on Sports Spectrum, we welcome Tom Ryan. He is the Ohio State Wrestling Coach. |
| 1:29.5 | This is one of the more decorated college coaches in the country in any sport. |
| 1:34.9 | He's a two-time NCAA head coach of the year in 2009, in 2015. |
| 1:40.2 | He arrived in Columbus as their coach in 2006. |
| 1:43.6 | He led the Ohio State Wrestling Program to unprecedented heights, |
| 1:48.2 | capturing the 2015 NCAA National Championship, |
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