In high school Pete Cuffaro was involved with promoting wrestling at Linsley Military Institute, (keeping score, etc.) as a student there. Cuffaro has been instrumental in supporting and promoting our nearly 50-team OVAC High School Wrestling Championships.

For over 25 years, Mr. Cuffaro has served as a volunteer Clock Operator and Official Score Keeper at the OVAC Wrestling Championships, as well as various other invitational wrestling tournaments in the upper Ohio Valley.

Over the years, Pete Cuffaro has authored numerous wrestling articles in the Wheeling (WV) News-Register's prestigious, award-winning Mat Talk Column. For decades, Mr. Cuffaro has been the featured speaker at various high-school wrestling baquets in the upper Ohio Valley.

When a fellow wrestler by the name of Daniel Burke was killed in an automobile accident in 1983, Pete Cuffaro initiated and has annually presented the Daniel M. Burke Memorial Wrestling Scholarship at the OVAC's Spring Banquet since 1984.

In June of 1983, Pete Cuffaro suffered a spinal cord injury in a freak diving accident which left him permanently confined to a wheelchair. Still, Pete did not let the injury keep him down. He has the upmost respect of the area wrestling community for his dedication to the mat sport for well over 30 years, as well as many other civic organizations.

Pete Cuffaro lives by the following motto: "No matter how bad you think you have it, look around. You can always find someone else who has it worse that you do. Count your blessings."