Indiana University of Pennsylvania Athletics

It's true that two decades went by before Larry McCoy's national championships of 1974 and 1975 came in for deserved remembering that resulted in permanent commemorations by both the national and university Halls of Fame.

Their worth, however, remains undiminished by the passage of time. Rather, the interim enhanced the stature of McCoy winning the NAIA 167-pound weight class crowns before the NAIA inducted him into its Wrestling Hall of Fame at a banquet in Jamestown, North Dakota, in March, 1995.

His titles were the first and only such achievements in IUP wrestling history. They capped a four-year collegiate record of 94 wins, 14 losses and a tie that included 68 wins only two losses and the tie in his junior and senior campaign (when the championships were attained).

Making that record all the more remarkable was that McCoy's Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference opponents were predominantly NCAA Division I wrestlers.
In competing for coach Bill Blacksmith (himself an NAIA national Hall of Fame inductee), McCoy won three NAIA District 18 trophies.  In between his two championship seasons, he was selected to compete for the first NAIA cultural exchange wrestling team. Touring Japan and Korea for three weeks, the team was the first from outside Korea to be invited to enter the country's national tournament.

After graduating from Indiana Area High School in 1972 and from IUP with a degree in criminology in 1976, McCoy joined the Washington, D. C., police in 1978. He has served with the force ever since. Since 1989, McCoy has been a tactical platoon lieutenant with its Emergency Response Team. In this, he commands on-scene strategies  involving baricaded criminals, hostages, high-risk warrants, attempted suicides and acts of terrorism.  He protects high-risk targets (and at times joins President Clinton on his morning runs through Washington).

Demanding assignments have not rendered it impossible for McCoy to continue involvements in wrestling, so well that in 1992, at the age of 38, he won a gold medal in the 190- pound class (to go with silver and bronze medals in handball ) at the 1992 International Law Enforcement Olympics.

McCoy's parents, Harold and Marie, still reside in Indiana. He and his wife, Donna, have two sons, Justin, 9, and Luke, 7.