As it turns out, Mitchell High School hired from within to fill its head wrestling coach vacancy.Mitchell athletic director Ed Duncan will be working closely with the man who has been named new Mountaineer head wrestling coach: Ed Duncan.
Duncan has been hired to replace James Owings, who resigned in May after 13 seasons.
Duncan, standout wrestler as a student with the Mountaineers, has previously been the coach at Hickory (from 1993 to 2004) and athletic director at Avery High School (2004-05) before returning to Ledger. Duncan has worked with three state champions and 25 state tournament qualifiers in his coaching career. Duncan had been the coach at Mitchell Middle for the past three years.
Mitchell has also hired two coaches for its cross country teams – Matt Hollifield (boys) and Misty Farmer Self (girls).