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Ed Dugas was an All-Conference standout in multiple sports on the hilltop who went on to receive numerous honors in more than three decades as a high school teacher and coach.
A 3-time All-West Virginia Conference selection in football who played on the Hilltoppers’ 1963 WVIAC championship team, Dugas also excelled on the wrestling mats where he was an NAIA National Tournament qualifier and won a WVIAC championship at 190 pounds. In the spring, he competed as a thrower for the West Liberty track team.
After graduation, Dugas embarked on a 32-year coaching and teaching career at the newly-consolidated John Marshall High School in Glen Dale, W.Va. An assistant coach in football, wrestling and track, he helped lead the JMHS wrestling program to four state titles during the 1970s. Taking over as head coach in 1982, he produced 11 individual state champions, won an OVAC Tournament crown and posted seven Top 5 finishes at the state tournament.
The 1982 OVAC Coach of the Year and the 2003 recipient of the OVAC “Mr. Mat” Award, Dugas was previously enshrined in the West Virginia Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and the John Marshall Athletic Hall of Fame.
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