{"id":23860,"date":"2018-10-30T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=23860"},"modified":"2018-11-29T11:14:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T16:14:48","slug":"utc-alum-writes-two-books-tracing-the-history-of-black-wrestlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/utc-alum-writes-two-books-tracing-the-history-of-black-wrestlers\/","title":{"rendered":"UTC alum writes two books tracing the history of black wrestlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"869\" data-attachment-id=\"23861\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/utc-alum-writes-two-books-tracing-the-history-of-black-wrestlers\/emily1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Emily1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,869\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Emily1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Emily1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-23861\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Emily1.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Emily1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Emily1-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Emily1-768x667.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Emily1-580x504.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Emily1-610x530.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Emily1-230x200.jpg 230w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Emily1-460x400.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Emily has spent the past 16 years as wrestling coach as Midland Valley High School in South Carolina.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"986\" data-attachment-id=\"23862\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/utc-alum-writes-two-books-tracing-the-history-of-black-wrestlers\/emily2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Emily2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,986\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Emily2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Emily2.jpg\" class=\"alignright wp-image-23862\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Emily2.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Emily2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Emily2-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Emily2-768x757.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Emily2-580x572.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Emily2-610x601.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Emily2-203x200.jpg 203w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/Emily2-406x400.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Kevin Emily felt like he was pinned to the mat.<\/p>\n<p>His older brother had just committed suicide and not only was Emily suffering through his own grief, he was trying to help his devastated parents with theirs. Living in Iowa at the time, he had enrolled at Meremac Community College in St. Louis to stay close to his parents, but they moved to Georgia, where his brother was living when he died. To stay close to his parents, Emily transferred to UTC.<\/p>\n<p>But UTC gave him a lot more than just a place to live, he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gained a new family, and I needed that at that time,\u201d he says. \u201cUTC was a safe haven. It was an experience of a lifetime for me. It helped me become a man, taught me so many life lessons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While earning a Bachelor of Arts in Communication in 1995, he joined UTC\u2019s wrestling team, having been part of the sport in his Iowa high school. Since graduating\u2014he came back to UTC to earn a master\u2019s degree in education in 2008\u2014he has been head wrestling coach at five different schools, including Red Bank High School. His main career, though, has been as a special education teacher.<\/p>\n<p>But the years he spent in wrestling took a turn toward the past. As an African-American, Emily was fascinated with the history of black wrestlers but, when he sought out anything written about them, he came up empty-handed.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"454\" data-attachment-id=\"23863\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/utc-alum-writes-two-books-tracing-the-history-of-black-wrestlers\/kevin-emily-books\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/kevin-emily-books.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,454\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1540824505&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kevin-emily-books\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/kevin-emily-books.jpg\" class=\"alignright wp-image-23863\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/kevin-emily-books.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/kevin-emily-books.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/kevin-emily-books-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/kevin-emily-books-580x439.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/kevin-emily-books-250x189.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/kevin-emily-books-529x400.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing I found was a 10- to 15-page pamphlet from the Wrestling Hall of Fame. I thought, \u2018These guys deserve more than that.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>His fascination and dedication turned into two books, <em>Pathfinder<\/em> in 2017 and its follow-up, <em>Pathfinder, Vol. 2, <\/em>this year. He was planning to write only one book but, as he got deeper into <em>Pathfinder,<\/em> he realized there was too much to write about, so <em>Pathfinder, Vol. 2<\/em> was born.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI kept discovering more people, so I told myself to just stop with what you\u2019ve got and you\u2019ve got enough for a good book. If you try to cram all that information into one book, you\u2019ll do some of the wrestlers a disservice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It makes sense that he\u2019d have a ton of history in his hands because he dug deeply, going all the way back to Egypt during the age of the pharaohs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone thinks the Greco-Roman era is when wrestling started, but it actually was in Africa,\u201d Emily says. \u201cThere are paintings on the Egyptian pyramid walls showing Nubians who came to Egypt to wrestle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From those ancient days, he kept moving forward until he reached the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century. \u201cI found out all this cool information that I\u2019d never even known before,\u201d he says. \u201cThere were so many things that people didn\u2019t know about the wrestlers. They didn\u2019t get their due credit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the two books, he covers dozens of wrestlers and coaches, from Harold T. Henson, who in 1949 became the first black man allowed to participate in an NCAA wrestling tournament, to John Meeks, who held a lifetime high school record of 172-0 and, in 2012, became the first and only undefeated black student to win the Iowa state championship four times.<\/p>\n<p>He tells the inspiring tale of J\u2019den Cox, who had a terrible childhood and suffered from PTSD, depression and thought about committing suicide as a college student. Cox pushed through those burdens and eventually won three NCAA titles and a bronze medal in the 2016 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Getting in touch with the wrestlers wasn\u2019t as difficult as you might think, Emily says. Facebook helped a lot as well as through such connections as \u201cthe friend of a friend of a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wrestling community is so tight-knit; they knew someone who knew someone,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, though, he finds it humorous that he wrote the books because, at UTC, \u201cI could not stand writing papers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI almost didn\u2019t graduate because I refused to write my senior thesis,\u201d he says, \u201cand now all of a sudden I\u2019ve cranked out two books.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Emily knew he had a lot of information when he started writing his book about the history of black wrestlers, but he soon discovered he had enough for two books.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/utc-alum-writes-two-books-tracing-the-history-of-black-wrestlers\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1105,"featured_media":23861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123864,61,4866,8244,64],"tags":[53,54,83292,83293],"class_list":{"0":"post-23860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-advancement-and-alumni","8":"category-college-of-arts-sciences","9":"category-communication","10":"category-honors-and-awards","11":"category-news","12":"tag-college-of-health","13":"tag-education-and-professional-studies","14":"tag-kevin-emily","15":"tag-pathfinder","16":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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