{"id":3417,"date":"2011-08-22T21:04:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T02:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2011-08-22T21:04:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T02:04:27","slug":"former-ridgeview-high-school-wrestling-coach-to-open-training-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/w3417\/former-ridgeview-high-school-wrestling-coach-to-open-training-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Ridgeview high school wrestling coach to open training center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Beth Cravey<\/p>\n<p>The popular former Ridgeview High School wrestling coach whose March firing led to protests from students and parents will open a new wrestling and fitness training center in Middleburg Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The center will host Christopher McNealy&#8217;s Pin-N-Win Wrestling Club Inc., a non-profit amateur wrestling club he established while he was at Ridgeview.<\/p>\n<p>The grand opening will be held from 10-11 a.m. The center is located at 4289 County Road 218., Suite 107, Middleburg.<\/p>\n<p>Club membership is open to ages 5 to 18 year olds, as well as adults. Activities are held at the center on Tuesday and Thursday nights.<\/p>\n<p>For fees and other information, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/pin-n-winwrestlingclub.com \"target=\"_blank\">pin-n-winwrestlingclub.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ridgeview wrestling team members and parents descended on the March 17 School Board meeting saying that McNealy&#8217;s ouster was unfair and that he was made a &#8220;scapegoat &#8220;for recruiting violations. School officials denied that charge.<\/p>\n<p>After a three-week investigation, Superintendent Ben Wortham upheld the decision made by Ridgeview principal John Westmoreland and Athletic Director Bob Adamson not to review McNealy&#8217;s contract. Wortham rarely intervenes in school-level personnel matters, and said at the time that he did so in this case only because of the &#8220;extreme &#8220;reaction of student wrestlers and parents.<\/p>\n<p>McNealy, who had been at Ridgeview for seven years, retained his full-time job there as an Exceptional Student Education teacher&#8217;s aide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Beth Cravey The popular former Ridgeview High School wrestling coach whose March firing led to protests from students and parents will open a new wrestling and fitness training center in Middleburg Florida. The center will host Christopher McNealy&#8217;s Pin-N-Win Wrestling Club Inc., a non-profit amateur wrestling club he established while he was at Ridgeview. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[357,135],"class_list":["post-3417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrestling","tag-florida","tag-high-school-wrestling"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B7Di-T7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}