ANNAPOLIS — Kent County High School graduate Davey Blake added to his Hall of Fame résumé Sunday, Nov. 9 when he was honored for lifetime service to wrestling by the Maryland Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Blake is pictured with his Kent County High School coach Dan Zottarelli at Sunday’s banquet and induction ceremony at The Graduate Hotel in Annapolis.
A three-time Maryland high school state wrestling champion and four-time state finalist, Blake was the 1998 recipient of the Dave Schultz Award for the most outstanding senior wrestler in Maryland.
He finished with a high school record of 141 wins and only two losses.
He was inducted into KCHS’ Hall of Fame with the inaugural class in 2008 and in 2012 was inducted into the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Blake has been a winner at every level of the sport — as a student-athlete at Kent County High School, Appalachian State University and McDaniel College, as head coach at alma mater McDaniel, and now as head coach of the girls program at Francis Scott Key High School in Carroll County where he is chair of the special education department.
[More on all of that in a future edition of The Evening Enterprise.]
Davey Blake lives in Westminster with his wife Caitlin and their children, Julia and JoJo.
— Photo by Trish McGee
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Outstanding! Your Dad would be so very proud of that accomplishment!