Nickerson Is Ready To Build Back Home In New York https://t.co/IMc9wp1Fso
— armdrag.com (@wnywrestling) November 12, 2025
First-year Army West Point coach Troy Nickerson is back home in the state where he became a New York wrestling legend.
Troy Nickerson has heard many times that he hasn’t changed a lot since his heralded days as a prep star wrestler at Chenango Forks, N.Y., or from his national championship/All-American moments at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., 15 years ago.
“I’m told that I will appreciate it at some point,” laughed the 38-year-old Nickerson, shortly before he began his next coaching chapter this season at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y.
But even Nickerson admits time has flown since he became the first New York prep to win five state championships in 2005 or featured a four-time All-American career in 2009 with a national title as a junior and compiled a 97-8 career mark at 125 pounds while wearing the red singlet with the big C on his chest.