{"id":2011352,"date":"2023-08-24T20:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T00:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/national-wrestling-hall-of-fame-honors-longtime-san-clemente-coach\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T20:22:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T00:22:03","slug":"national-wrestling-hall-of-fame-honors-longtime-san-clemente-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/national-wrestling-hall-of-fame-honors-longtime-san-clemente-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"San Clemente Coach receives prestigious honor from National Wrestling Hall of Fame."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnational-wrestling-hall-of-fame-honors-longtime-san-clemente-coach%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2011352&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Former Wrestling Coach Honored with Lifetime Service to Wrestling\u200d Award<\/h2>\n<p>Mark \u200cCalentino, \u200da longtime former wrestling \u2063coach at San Clemente High School in Southern \u2064California, had a\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/national-wrestling-hall-of-fame-honors-longtime-san-clemente-coach\/\" title=\"San Clemente Coach receives prestigious honor from National Wrestling Hall of Fame.\">remarkable \u2062full-circle \u200cmoment<\/a> on Aug. 20. He was honored by the \u200bNational Wrestling Hall of \u200bFame with its lifetime service \u200cto wrestling award in a ceremony that took place at the Laguna Hills Community Center.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m standing on the stage \u200band the \u2063first thing I said was this \u2064whole journey started about 250 yards \u2064from \u200bwhere I\u2019m standing right now because the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-world-of-ubiquitous-racism-new-attack-on-game-of-monopoly\/\" title=\"\u2018A World Of Ubiquitous Racism\u2019: New Attack On Game Of Monopoly\">community center<\/a> is right below Laguna Hills High School,\u201d Mr. Calentino told The Epoch \u2064Times.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Remarkable \u2063Coaching Success<\/h3>\n<p>Following his own prep wrestling \u200dcareer at \u2064Laguna \u200cHills, Mr. Calentino went on to achieve remarkable coaching success at\u200c San Clemente. In his \u200b32 seasons as head coach, the Tritons amassed a \u2064426-98-2 record, winning 18\u200d league championships and \u2064six CIF Southern Section titles, including \u200cin \u2063each of his final three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe \u200dis just an incredible \u2062human being \u200bwho is \u2063humble, \u200dnot a credit-taker.\u200b He\u2019s \u2062all about the \u2062kids,\u201d \u2064said San Clemente High Athletic \u2063Director Jon Hamro. \u2064\u201cWhat kept him in the business are the relationships he\u2019s built with coaches, even competing coaches, and his athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>A Hall of Fame Celebration<\/h3>\n<p>The guest list for the Hall of Fame festivities exemplified\u200b the strong relationships Mr. Calentino has built throughout his career. \u2062Among those in attendance were his \u2063own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pastor-high-school-coach-among-nearly-80-people-arrested-in-sex-trafficking-sting-operation\/\" title=\"Pastor, High School Coach Among Nearly 80 People Arrested In Sex Trafficking Sting Operation\">high school coach<\/a>, Del Schwartz, his \u200bcoaches at Golden \u2063West College, Dale Deffner and Raul Duarte,\u2062 and even 90-year-old Erwin \u2062Goldbloom, who coached Mr. Calentino \u2062on a junior \u2064college all-star team \u200dthat toured Japan\u200c in 1982.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:0;margin-right:0;max-width:1200px\">\n<figure style=\"width:640px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>National Wrestling Hall of Fame lifetime service to\u200d wrestling award\u200b ceremony at the Laguna Hills\u200b Community Center\u2062 in Laguna Hills, \u200bCalif., on Aug.\u200b 20, 2023. (Courtesy of John Hamro)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Unbeknownst to\u2062 Mr. \u200cCalentino in advance, former college teammates David Gatian, David Beaver, and Ryan \u200bShackleford \u200cwere also on \u200chand for the Hall of\u200c Fame \u2063banquet, having traveled from Ohio, Virginia, and Idaho, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could have\u2062 knocked me over with a feather,\u201d Mr. \u200bCalentino said. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018What are\u2063 you\u2062 doing here?\u2019 They said they wouldn\u2019t \u200bhave missed it for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>A Legacy of Coaching<\/h3>\n<p>For countless wrestlers at San Clemente over the past three-plus decades, Mr. \u2064Calentino was\u200d their \u200dcoach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoutinely, he would have teams\u200d of 100 kids,\u201d Mr. Hamro said. \u201cA lot of kids that did not \u2064have\u200d a place \u2062in \u200bour athletic program found a spot in wrestling. That kind \u200dof depth certainly paid dividends with\u200b success \u2063on the mat, but the fact\u200c the kids\u200c felt like they were important kept \u2063them coming back.\u200b When they showed up, they worked hard, and that really \u2062translated into\u200c the success that he had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Including brief stints as an assistant at Laguna Hills and\u2062 as\u200c head coach at \u200dLos Amigos-Fountain\u2064 Valley, Mr. \u2063Calentino\u2019s \u200ccoaching career spanned 35 years. He continued to \u2063offer support as an\u2063 assistant\u200d at San Clemente\u200b last season, after having stepped down in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, other\u2063 than continuing to teach science, possibly helping \u2062in the Tritons\u2019 baseball program is\u2062 about all \u200cthat\u2019s on his agenda.<\/p>\n<p>And\u200c even after all\u2062 of that, not to mention having run more than 250 wrestling tournaments over the years, the Hall of \u200dFame honor, he said, remains\u200b di<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Calentino, a former wrestling coach at San Clemente High School, was recently honored by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. The ceremony, held at the Laguna Hills Community Center, awarded him for his lifetime service to wrestling. 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