For today’s Teacher Feature, we talked to Mr. Ronny D’Amico: Clerical, Shaler Area wrestling coach, and one of Cafe 118’s hardest workers.

Q:What is your favorite student slang, and can you use it in a sentence? 

A:What the sigma?

Q:What was your first car?

A:2002 Honda Accord that I named Fuego.

Q:What’s the best concert you’ve ever been to? 

A:Tyler Childers concert. Phenomenal concert!

Q:What’s the one album you listened to that changed your life after the first time you heard it?

A:The Life of Pablo by Kanye West.

Q:What is your fattest moment?  

A:It was probably when I used two stuffed pretzels as my buns, then had a double bacon cheeseburger in the middle of it. Drenched in sauce.

Q:What’s the best advice you give your younger self? 

A:The key to a good life isn’t about caring more; it’s about caring less about the pointless stuff.

Q:What’s your ideal last meal? 

A:I mean we can get crazy here, but if I had to choose, probably a Five Guys burger, fries, and a shake!

Q:What is your best high school or college athletic memory? 

A:In high school it was being a state placer. In college, it was my senior night. I started off the wrestling match losing pretty bad to an NCAA qualifier, and I ended up throwing the kid to his back, pinning him, and winning the dual for the team.

Q:What is your best celebration story after a big win as a player or a coach? 

A:As a coach, it’s when I was coaching in the NCAA semifinals. Our guy ended up upsetting the #1 guy in the nation, and I just remember the head coach after the buzzer rang, jumped into my arms, which I wasn’t expecting. It caused us to go down on the mat, but it didn’t matter because we had a guy in the NCAA finals.