Three-time National AAU champion (105.5 pounds), winning titles in 1973, ’74 and ’75 and being named to World Cup Team each of those years. Won silver medal representing United States in 1975 Pan-American Games. Ohio high school 103-pound champion in 1963 at Garfield Heights High and Mid-American Conference champion at 123 pounds in 1967 at Miami University of Ohio. Named captain and outstanding wrestler on both his high school and college teams.