2022 Wrestling Hall of fame Inductee- Mike Cunningham - Xavier High School

Mike Cunningham is a 1989 Springfield College Wrestling Alumnus and serves as the Head Wrestling Coach at New England Wrestling Power, Xavier High School.
Cunningham is a 2022 inductee to the Connecticut Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and joins the PrideCast fresh off of leading the Falcons to a runner-up team finish at the 2022 New England Championships.
Since graduating from Springfield College, Mike has been coaching for 26 years at the high school and collegiate level. He spent four years at Wesleyan including one year as head coach of the Cardinal. He was the head wrestling coach at Rocky Hill for four seasons (1998-2002) and has been at Xavier since 2002. Under Mike’s leadership, the Falcons have won four state championships (2011, 2012, 2020, 2022) and two State Open titles in 2012 and 2022. Both his sons, Tyler and Colin, wrestled under Mike at Xavier and are among more than 30 wrestlers to win individual state championships. At Xavier, Mike has also been head coach of the boys lacrosse and boys soccer coach programs. In 2019, Mike was named the recipient of the Theodore Ryken award for commitment to Xavier. Mike will join his father, Jim, a long-time coach at Holy Cross in Waterbury, in the Connecticut Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Jim was inducted in 2010.