Nathan spearheaded the drive to get him a new one. They had a custodian at Battery Creek that would ride a bike to work, and something happened to his bike. All the wrestling coaches have Nate stories,” Damude said. “He knew what made people tick,” Ryan Day said. And he remembers the countless times his father made someone cry, including his mother, with a perfectly timed and thoughtful gift. Ryan Day recalls his father driving around on Christmas Eve, delivering presents to kids that weren’t going to have any.
And he would ask my mom to pick out the best clothes for the kids on the team that just didn’t have any clothes.” “And then he’d come home after having gone to the store and buying tons of clothes. “We’d all be at home, and he’d just get up and leave the house,” Ryan Day said. Ryan Day said the effects of his father stepping away from coaching was huge when you realize the impact he had on hundreds of kids over his career. He always did the best he could by his wrestlers and he did the same for us, even though he took time away from the things he loved.” But he always put us first – Mom, Morgan and I. “I think most people know him as a coach,” Ryan Day said. Instead he spent that time focused on his family – his wife Kim, Ryan and daughter Morgan. Nathan Day stayed involved at Battery Creek. “He told me, ‘That’s the best advice I ever got.’” “Coach Trap (assistant coach Camillo Trapuzzano) said, ‘Don’t miss the opportunity to watch your kids grow up.’ “Dad was sitting in the gym one day, and Morgan and I were running around on the mats of something,” Ryan Day said. This is where Nathan Day helped cement his legacy as a father. Then in 1998, Nathan Day did something unexpected. High School League changed to the duals format for the state championship. He won his first state championship in his fourth season (1991) before winning titles the first three years (1994-1996) after the S.C. He got a lot out of his kids.”ĭay started coaching at Battery Creek during the 1987-1988 academic year after two seasons as an assistant coach at Summerville High School. And then getting them to perform at their peak. “He had an uncanny knack for getting kids out to wrestle. “He was one of the best wrestling coaches in the state of South Carolina,” former Beaufort High School wrestling coach Bill Damude said. He won six state championships at Battery Creek High School (1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2014, 2015) and coached Dolphins wrestlers to 30 individual state championships in his 16-year tenure at the school. It was at Battery Creek where Nathan Day cemented his legacy as one of the state’s best wrestling coaches. Nathan Day is survived by his wife, Kim Day, his two adult children – daughter Morgan and son Ryan – two grandchildren and a brother and a sister. Our grief and confusion at this time are little compared to what the Day family must be feeling. “We have lost a teacher, coach, friend, valued colleague, husband, father of two, and grandfather. “It is with deep sadness that we inform you that we lost Coach Nate Day this afternoon,” Liberty Middle School posted on its Facebook page. He was a Physical Education teacher and the Athletic Director at Liberty Middle School, as well. Nathan Day had most recently been the head wrestling coach at Liberty High School in the Upstate since 2017. “The last three days were rough,” he said. Ryan Day said his father became ill about three weeks ago before taking a turn for the worse just a few days ago. He was 57, three days shy of his 58th birthday. 27, after a battle with COVID-19, leaving two communities in mourning – a third if you count the South Carolina wrestling community. Nathan Day, the longtime and highly successful Battery Creek High School wrestling coach, died Friday, Aug.
It’s unlikely anyone can argue Nathan Day didn’t live up to his own credo. “Dad always said, ‘If you’re going to do something, be the best you can,’” Ryan Day said Sunday.
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