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Larry Sprecher enters his second year as assistant wrestling coach for Bison. Sprecher came to Bucknell after serving as a graduate assistant for the wrestling program at Bloomsburg University. At Bloomsburg, Sprecher helped Wirnsberger lead the squad to the 2005 PSAC title and had six wrestlers qualify for the NCAA Div I Tournament. He also served as tournament director for the AAU Ironman tournament and designed marketing strategies for summer wrestling camps during his stint with the Huskies. Prior to his time at Bloomsburg, Sprecher served as head coach for E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C., where he was voted Mid-Eastern Coach of the Year after taking a program unranked the year before his arrival to a fourth-place finish in the North Carolina state wrestling championships. He also coached the school's first state champion in over ten years. During his three years at E.A. Laney, he coached over 21 state qualifiers, five state place winners and two individual state champions. Before coaching at Laney, Sprecher served as an intern strength and conditioning coach with the Pittsburgh Steelers where he helped implement strength, conditioning, and rehabilitation programs for all players and lived on site with the team during the 1998 training camp. A 1998 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Sprecher earned a bachelor of science in education and is working to complete his masters degree in exercise physiology from Bloomsburg. While at Pitt, Sprecher was a varsity wrestler and earned the Bell Atlantic Division I Scholar Athlete Award his senior year. | ||||||||||||||||