Forest Hills High School, a public high school located in Sidman, Pennsylvania, boasts a wrestling program with a rich and successful history in the state tournament.
The school itself was formed in 1966 from the unification of four smaller high schools: Triangle Area, Adams-Summerhill, South Fork-Croyle, and Beaverdale-Wilmore.
Jackson Arrington: A Three-Time State Champion
No Ranger has achieved quite as much success as Jackson Arrington. In 2019, as a freshman, Arrington won his first state championship. He repeated this feat in 2021 and again in 2022, concluding his high school wrestling career with three gold medals.
Arrington is now a wrestler at NC State. Before leaving Sidman, he received his third banner, which was hung in the Forest Hills High School gymnasium. This achievement surpassed his coach, Jake Strayer, for the most wrestling banners at Forest Hills.
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Dave Mills: From State Champion to Renowned Coach
Dave Mills, a three-time state placer and state champion at Mt. Pleasant High School, continued his wrestling career at Central Michigan University in 1980. He captained the Chippewas during his junior and senior seasons and finished as MAC runner-up in 1985.
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Mills began his coaching career as an assistant at Grand Valley and Cedar Springs High School. His first head coaching position was at Forest Hills Central, where his teams won five straight conference championships, including 87 regular season wins in a row. As a high school coach, Dave mentored 23 state placers and five state champions.
With the help of Tom Krepps, Dave resurrected the program at Grand Valley as an NCWA club and won the national championship in their first year. While at GVSU, Dave guided the Lakers to three consecutive national team titles and coached numerous All Americans and National Champions. Grand Valley has become a dynasty program and the benchmark for which all NCWA programs are measured due in large part to the efforts of Dave Mills.
Dave was named the NCWA national Coach of the Year in 2001 and 2006. Still an assistant at GVSU, Dave has produced and marketed over a dozen wrestling technique videos with the assistance of and featuring; Tom Borelli, Dan Gable, Tom Brands, Steve Fraser, Nick Simmons and others.
Dave has also been inducted into the Mt.
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