CLEVELAND, Tenn. — One of Bradley Central’s most decorated wrestlers has returned home and, spurning a career in law, has joined the school as a teacher and coach.
And while Travis Creagan thought initially that after earning a degree at Columbia his education was pretty much done, he has discovered that there is as much to learning the tools of a trainer as there was to being trained.
He learned the hard way earlier this season about professional decorum demanded of coaches. He went to bat for one of Bradley’s wrestlers and wound up getting ejected from a match. His intent was good; his approach not so good.
Lesson learned. There are differences as wrestler and coach and from the college level back to high school.
“It’s about as different as it can get,” said Creagan, who decided against the legal profession after spending time in the law department of Jones Management in Cleveland. “When I was a trainee I had trainers that, whether I liked it or not, made sure I did what I needed to do.