Prep wrestling: Estancia wrestling coach resigns

COSTA MESA - Nate Skaar, who guided the Estancia High wrestling

program the last three seasons, has resigned to pursue a collegiate

coaching opportunity in Iowa.

Skaar, a 26-year-old walk on, said whoever replaces him will inherit a

team capable of contending for the Pacific Coast League championship next

season.

“I’m really going to miss those guys,” Skaar said of Estancia wrestlers.

“It was my first coaching job, I learned a lot about coaching and I’ll

always look back on my time at Estancia. I’ll never forget this team.”

Skaar, whose wife has been accepted into a physician’s assistant program

at the University of Iowa, hopes to land an assistant job at Division III

Upper Iowa University, where his former college teammate, Heath Grimm, is

hoping to become head coach.

“I can’t think of anything that’s excited me this much,” Skaar said.

-- by Barry Faulkner