Eastern Michigan Athletics
Former Assistant Coach Named to Michigan Sports Hall of Fame
9/8/2010 12:10:22 PM | Wrestling
Served as assistant coach from 1987-93
YPSILANTI, Mich.- (EMUEagles.com) – Steve Fraser, an assistant wrestling coach at Eastern Michigan University from1987-93, will be one of 12 inductees into the state of Michigan Sports Hall of Fame, Sept. 13, 2010, at Rock Financial Showplace in Novi, Mich.
Fraser joins Bob Becker, George Blaha, Bill Flemming, Marian Ilitch, Peter Karmanos, Rick Leach, Meg Mellon, Herman Moore, Eddie Murray, Jack Roush, and Jon Urbanchek. Roush, head of Roush Fenway Racing, also has an EMU connection after earning a master's degree from the University.
A native of Hazel Park, Mich., Fraser was the United States' first Olympic Gold Medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling and is currently the National Olympic Greco Coach for the United States.
Fraser competed in football, track and field, and wrestling as a high school student. He won a wrestling scholarship to the University of Michigan in 1976. He won national Greco-Roman championships in the 198-pound division in 1982 and 1983, when he also won a gold medal at the Pan-American Games. He won the national freestyle title in 1984 but finished second in Greco-Roman championship. However, he placed first in the 1984 Olympic trials and then became the first U. S. athlete ever to win an Olympic gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling. Fraser has been inducted into the U. S. Wrestling Hall of Fame and the University of Michigan Hall of Honor.
Fraser joins Bob Becker, George Blaha, Bill Flemming, Marian Ilitch, Peter Karmanos, Rick Leach, Meg Mellon, Herman Moore, Eddie Murray, Jack Roush, and Jon Urbanchek. Roush, head of Roush Fenway Racing, also has an EMU connection after earning a master's degree from the University.
A native of Hazel Park, Mich., Fraser was the United States' first Olympic Gold Medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling and is currently the National Olympic Greco Coach for the United States.
Fraser competed in football, track and field, and wrestling as a high school student. He won a wrestling scholarship to the University of Michigan in 1976. He won national Greco-Roman championships in the 198-pound division in 1982 and 1983, when he also won a gold medal at the Pan-American Games. He won the national freestyle title in 1984 but finished second in Greco-Roman championship. However, he placed first in the 1984 Olympic trials and then became the first U. S. athlete ever to win an Olympic gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling. Fraser has been inducted into the U. S. Wrestling Hall of Fame and the University of Michigan Hall of Honor.
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