Walt Wintin 

Coach • Contributor
Induction Year: 2017
Inducted December 16, 2017

Walt Wintin coached wrestling, football and baseball at Seymour High School and also served as the school's Athletic Director. Wintin was the wrestling coach from 1960 to 1962 and from 1968 to 1979. His teams won three wrestling sectional championships. He also had 28 individual sectional champions, 11 regional champions and had two wrestlers finish third in the state. They were Scott Hobson in 1973 and Scott Brown in 1976. Wintin was inducted into the Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1980. Wintin was the Seymour baseball coach for five seasons from 1958 to 1962 and had a record of 57-28. His teams in 1958 and 1960 won South Central Conference championships. Wintin was the varsity football coach at Seymour for one season in 1961 and the Owls had an 8-2 record. Wintin was the Seymour high School Athletic Director from 1980-1990 and the sports programs flourished during that time. Seymour won team state championship in baseball and girl's golf. It had two state runner-up finishes in girl's golf and one in boy's golf. And it also had one girl's basketball team and two volleyball teams advanced to the state tournament's Final Four. Seymour also had an individual state champion in girls's golf and boys's golf. for his work as Athletic Director, Wintin received the Charles Mass Distinguished Service Award for District V from the Indiana Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association in 1993 and 200 and the IHSAA Athletic Director Champion medal in 1995. Wintin was a 1948 graduate of Shelbyville High School, where he lettered in football, basketball, baseball, and track. He was a member of the 1947 Golden Bears basketball team that won the state championship. he graduated from the Indiana State teacher's College in Terre Haute in 1955 and lettered in football for the Sycamores. He also served in the United States Marine Corps. Wintin was a member of the Camp Legeune Fleet Marine Force Atlantic Wrestling Team and won the Atlantic Fleet Championship in the 191-pound weight class in 1952.

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