David Stoika brought his wrestling expertise straight from Iowa. He starting coaching in 1977 at Lynnville Sully Junior High in Iowa. He moved to Tennessee in 1981 and officiated for three years. He returned to the dark side after that to coach McMinn County for the next 34 years.

In Iowa he was assistant coach for two Iowa State champions and one state runner-up. Stoika coached two-time state boys champion Shazzon Bradley in 1987 and 1988, and he coached girls state champion Kelsey Hampton in the inaugural girls tournament.

Stoika piled up 278 dual victories, but his real accomplishment was to keep a wrestling program going 34 years in an area not rich in wrestling tradition.

With little support, he introduced and kept so many involved in a sport that does so much to help mold young boys into men. That is his true accomplishment.