Keith Manos

About Keith Manos

Keith was inducted into the Ohio Wrestling Coaches Hall of Fame in 2009 and the National Honor Roll of Outstanding American Teachers in 2006. In 2000, Keith was honored as Ohio's English Teacher of the Year by the Ohio Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts and Ohio's Wrestling Coach of the Year in 1988. He was named a Who's Who of American High School Teachers in 2005.

Keith is a former wrestling coach and athletic director at Richmond Heights (OH) High School. Previously, he was the head coach of the U.S.A. All Star Wrestling Team in 1989 (vs. the Oklahoma All Stars) and the head coach of the Ohio All-Star Wrestling Team in 1991. The Greater Cleveland Wrestling Coaches and Officials Association awarded Keith their Coach of the Year award in 1989 and their Award of Merit in 2002, and the Ohio High School Athletic Association honored Keith with their State Award in 2013.

Keith has published 14 books to date, including the best-selling Wrestling Coaches Survival Guide (Simon & Schuster imprint Prentice Hall 1995) and The Elite Wrestler (Coaches Choice 2020). Coaches Choice has published five more books, including 101 Proven Ways to Motivate Athletes and 101 Winning Strategies for Wrestling Coaches. In October, 2015 Black Rose Writing published Keith's debut novel My Last Year of Life (in School).

Currently, Keith is an adjunct professor in English at Lakeland Community College and has taught writing and literature to students, fellow teachers, and writers for nearly four decades at both the secondary and post-secondary levels. With his guidance, his students' poetry, fiction, and essays have earned them awards and recognition after being accepted for publication in local and national magazines.

In 1993 Keith earned a Master's Degree in English (Creative Writing) from Cleveland State University and his Bachelor's from Miami University (OH) where he was the winner of the Greer-Hepburn Award for Creative Writing.

Keith lives in Willoughby with his wife and three children.