Section III has been Brad Hamer's home for wrestling since he graduated from Fulton High School and continued his college wrestling at Cortland State under the tutelage of Vince Gonino. Following graduation from Cortland, Brad served one year at Albany as the graduate assistant to Joe Gracia and then embarked on a coaching career in Section III at Copenhagen and Liverpool High School. Hamer then moved to Port Byron High School where he successfully rebuilt the Panther's wrestling program into a Section III powerhouse. His Port Byron's teams captured 2 OHSL League Championship and Brad was named the OHSL South Coach of the Year in 1992 and 1993. In 1992 his team received the John Arcaro Sportsmanship Award given by the Syracuse Wrestling Officials Association. Brad compiled 110 wins during his coaching career and produced many sectional place winners. Brad became the Athletic Director for two years at Port Byron and then moved to Onondaga Central and served there as the Vice Principal and Athletic Director. He finished his educational administrative career at Jordan Elbridge where he was the Assistant Principal and Director of HPEA for fourteen years. Brad has been for the last fifteen years the Section III Wrestling Coordinator and member of the New York State Wrestling Committee. From 2012-14, Brad was selected to be the President of Section III Athletics and still serves as a member of the Executive Committee of Athletics in the section. In addition, Brad was instrumental in the establishing the Friends of Section III Wrestling in 2008. The Friends of Section III Wrestling has been very active in improving and supporting wrestling in the section with a Section III Wrestling Hall of Fame banquet, donating eight score clocks for the sectional finals, and providing the medals to all place winners. Brad is active in his community as a member of the Jordan Elbridge Dollars for Scholars program, Jordan Fall Festival Committee, Jordan Community Council and being a member of the Jordan United Methodist Church where he sings in the choir and acts as Lay Leader. Brad and his wife, Shannon, resides in Jordan and are the proud parents of two children Daniel and Kelly and the grandparents of Taylor Ann.