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About Keith Manos Keith Manos, an adjunct professor in English at Lakeland Community College and a 37 year veteran of public school teaching, has taught writing and literature to students, teachers, and writers for nearly four decades at both the secondary and post-secondary levels. With his guidance, his students’ poetry, fiction, and essays have earned them awards and recognition after being accepted for publication in local and national magazines. In 2000, Keith was honored as Ohio’s English Teacher of the Year by the Ohio Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts, was named Who’s Who of American High School Teachers in 2005, and was inducted into the National Honor Roll of Outstanding American Teachers in 2006. In 1993 Keith earned a Master's Degree in English (Creative Writing) from Cleveland State University. He has a Bachelor of Science from Miami University (OH) where he was the winner of the Greer-Hepburn Award for Creative Writing, and as a member of the Ohio Education Association, Keith is committed to teaching English. In addition, he serves on the editorial boards of Greenwood Publications and Momentum Media Sports Publications, and his skill as a teacher of writing has enabled him to serve as an editor of various educational newsletters and student publications. He has also conducted many in-service seminars for writers, teachers, and coaches at Lake Erie College, Notre Dame College, and Lakeland Community College. A writer himself, Keith has published eleven books to date and is the author of many articles directed towards teachers and coaches which have appeared in national publications like Scholastic Coach, Wesleyan Advocate, School Library Journal, Teacher Magazine, Strategies, Accent, Athletic Management, Athletic Business, Lutheran Journal, and Wrestling USA, among others. His books Wrestling Coaches Survival Guide (1995) and Writing Smarter (1998) were published by a Prentice Hall, and Coaches Choice published four more books, including 101 Ways to Motivate Athletes. Black Rose Writing published his debut novel My Last Year of Life (in School) in the fall of 2015. Keith is also a speaker for civic organizations, athletic teams, and awards programs in the Cleveland area when he isn't spending time with his wife and three children. He lives in Willoughby.

For the 25-26 Wrestling Season

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Are you a wrestling coach? Do you know a wrestling coach? Maybe you’re the one sitting in the bleachers wondering how to help your wrestlers win their matches in duals or tournaments. Well, I’ve researched the strategies used by hundreds of coaches like Dan Gable, Cael Sanderson, Tom Ryan, Tom Brands, Cary Kolat, Terry Steiner, and Jeff Buxton and put them into 101 Winning Strategies for Wrestling Coaches, a book that every coach, wrestler, or parent should read. It’s available at https://coacheschoice.com/101-winning-strategies-for-wrestling-coaches/

And after using these strategies, any wrestling coach will get the results they want from their wrestlers.

For Wrestling Parents!

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The commitment of any wrestler’s parents these days goes beyond cheering from the bleachers. They provide nutritious snacks and beverages at competitions; they video matches; they wash sweaty workout gear; they encourage and praise their child and their child’s teammates; they promote the sport; they may work in a concession stand or organize a hospitality room for a tournament; and they probably feel the anguish of the losses and the joy of the wins as much as their wrestler does. Parents like this want the best for the wrestler in the family. That’s why the 90-page book The Elite Wrestler can be a great gift for any wrestler or coach. The guidance this book provides can help any wrestler up their game and go from good to great! Check it out at – https://coacheschoice.com/the-elite-wrestler/.

Keith’s new novel!

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Check out this coming attraction! Editors are currently considering publishing my newest novel which is tentatively titled W is for Wrestling. Here’s a brief blurb about it:

A fifteen-year-old boy takes on the challenge of living with his divorced and erratic father and competing on his school’s wrestling team. The problem? He doesn’t know how to deal with his father’s mental disorder or how to wrestle. To succeed on both fronts, what Alex Corrigan learns in this dramatic novel is that if it is to be, it is up to me.

My Next Novel!

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Take Diana Asher’s ALA Notable and Parent Choice Award Book Side Tracked or the highly acclaimed Chasing Pacquiao by Rod Pulido, change the sport to wrestling, add a mentally unstable parent, and you have my newest novel W IS FOR WRESTLING, which currently is being solicited to several publishers by my agent Tina Schwartz.

My protagonist is Alex Corrigan who joins – almost by accident – the Amherst High School wrestling team. Why?  He sees an opportunity shake off that disappointment label his father has given him. But wrestling? Alex knows nothing about the sport other than that at 104 pounds he’s perfect for the 106-pound weight class. Alex wonders, can wrestling change the tense relationship I have with my dad? Will it start a romantic relationship with wrestling cheerleader Marci Sommers? Will I even survive? Alex seeks answers to those questions as he engages in a wrestling season where he and his father learn as much about themselves as they do each other.