Steve Meehan’s introduction to wrestling came when his son’s got involved in Kid Wrestling. When they were old enough to travel with the Police Athletic League, Steve would go on the trips to help with travel arrangements.

It was during this time that he learned how to do freestyle pairing from the USA Wrestling Guide. Steve became a licensed USA Wrestling Paring Official in 1989 and worked as a freestyle and Greco-Roman pairer at many local, state and national events.

In 1985, Steve was elected as the Suffolk County Kids Director for freestyle and Greco-Roman. In this capacity, he was involved in helping to compile a spring wrestling calendar and was responsible for organizing and running the state freestyle qualifier in Suffolk County.

In 1995, Steve became the Suffolk County Chairman for USA Wrestling and remained in that position until 1999. During his tenure as Suffolk chairman, he was also elected to the position of State Membership Director. He was responsible from 1995 to 1998 for all USA Wrestling membership and associated funds. In 1998, Steve was elected State Chairman of USA Wresting in New York.

During the years as a freestyle pairer, Steve helped run the wrestling events at the New York State Empire Games. In 2001, he became the tournament director and head pairer for the New York Empire State Games.

Through his interest in high school wrestling, Steve had the idea to develop a website. Starting with the New York State sectional tournament qualifier results in February of 1996, he developed the NYwrestling.com website. The coverage expanded after that to report wrestling stories and results from around the state.

In 2002, with Scott Arnel and Tom Ryan, Steve formed the Long Island Wrestling Association, whose charter was to support all phases of amateur wrestling on Long Island. Steve was elected vice president of the LIWA at its inception and remains in that position today. This organization runs a website called longislandwrestling.org and Steve is the sole webmaster for the website.

From 2008 until the present, Steve has been the Section XI High School Championships computer operations director. He is also the volunteer webmaster for the following organizations: Nassau County Wrestling Coaches Association, Suffolk County Wrestling Coaches Association and the Suffolk Wrestling Officials Association while serving as an advisor to the Suffolk County Wrestling Coaches Association on all matters involving computer operations.

Steve has been married for 46 years to his wife Cathy, and has three children, Cindy, Chris, and Bryan.

Steve’s sons wrestled in high school at Connetquot High and both went on to become junior high school coaches. Chris coached at Longwood and Bryan coached at Connetqupt. Bryan was also a high school wrestling official in Nassau County.