1970 TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL
Coach Joe Shook’s 1970 Trinity High School Wrestling Team is arguably the premier wrestling team ever at Trinity High. This team dominated everyone they wrestled compiling a dual match record of 14-0. Team scores for those matches were 637 points scored, an average of 45.5 points per match and held their opponents to 108 points, an average of 7.7 points a match. They averaged a 37.8-point winning margin in those 14 victories. Two shutouts were achieved and they defeated 3 teams rated in the Amateur Wrestling Top 20 Teams.
TEAM AND INDIVIDUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Western Conference Team Champions
4 Individual Champions – M. Passalacqua, B.Frazier, B. Larkin & J. Chatman Section III Team Champions
7 Individual Champions – M. Passalacqua, D. Day, D. Frazier, D. Barnickle, S. Miller, J. Chatman & D. Dallatore Southern Qualifier Team Champions
7 Individual Champions – M. Passalaqua, D. Day, D. Frazier, D. Barnickle S. Miller, J. Chatman & D. Dallatore WPIAL TEAM CHAMPIONS
3 Individual Champions – M. Passalaqua, S. Miller & J. Chatman PIAA Mythical Team Champions
2 Individual Champions – S. Miller & J. Chatman
PIAA Coach of the Year Joe Shook