Penn State Mont Alto's Head Wrestling Coach, Bruce Kocsis has been named 2013-2014 PSUAC Coach of the Year. This year was Coach Kocsis' third year as the Head Coach at Mont Alto and it was an impressive season.
Wrestling had not been part of the Mont Alto Campus for over thirty years when Coach Kocsis was hired. In less than three years, Kocsis and his staff have created and built it into the successful program it is today.
This year the team went 9-5 overall and 6-0 in the PSUAC, they were the PSUAC regular season champions as well as taking first place at the PSUAC Championships and fourth in the USCAA Championships. Not only did they finish second in the NCWA Mid-East Qualifiers but sent eight wrestlers to the NCWA Championship tournament in Allen, Texas. While in Texas, the team was very competitive and Jimmy Hughes finished 7th place in his 133 lbs. weight class and earn NCWA All-American. This was the first time a wrestler from Mont Alto was named All-American.
"It's an honor to receive this award," Coach Kocsis comments. "The credit has to go to the team. They are the ones on the mat, they are the ones that bleed, sweat and work hard every day to achieve their goals. Without them working hard to achieve their goals, this wouldn't be possible."
