LINN L. LONG
Lifetime Service to Wrestling Award

Long was presented with the Living Legend Award from the University of Colorado in 2003 and for good reason. A graduate of Boulder High School and the University of Colorado, he coached for 50 years. He began as a student assistant at Colorado in 1956, coached in the Army two years, CU for eight, 14 at Southern Illinois University and presently as an assistant at Lyons High School. He placed second in the Big Eight three consecutive seasons and was All-American at CU with a third-place NCAA finish in 1955. He also won one national Freestyle championship, was a seven-time runner-up, a three time Greco All-American, was twice a member of the Team USA and was an Olympic Team alternate three times. He had a career record 203-152-6 as a college coach. He served as the Chairman of Greco Wrestling in the Rocky Mountain Region and honored as a Sponsor of the Year in Carbondale, Ill. Nineteen of his former wrestlers went into the coaching ranks. Perhaps his best known wrestlers were Colorado.s Dean Lahr, who won four nationals titles in freestyle and the NCAA, Division I title in 1963, Bob Justice, the 1968 Division I national champion, Ken Johnson, the 1967 NCAA champion and Rob Roop, a 1969 Greco national champion.