Kurt Boese
Inducted In
1981
Kurt Boese was one of the area’s outstanding wrestlers and coaches for a period of some 24 years from 1954 to 1978.
Boese won five Canadian Championships: 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962 and 1963. In 1960 Boese won both Greco-Roman and Freestyle championships. His weight class was welterweight.
He represented Canada in the Commonwealth Games in 1958; the Olympic Games in 1960; the Commonwealth Games in 1962; and the Pan American Games in 1963. Boese won bronze medals in the Commonwealth Games of 1962 and the Pan American Games of 1963. In addition to these accomplishments, Kurt won numerous YMCA championships.
Boese made outstanding contributions in the coaching field. From 1954 to 1970 he was head coach of the Kitchener YMCA. In 1967, Boese coached the Ontario team in the first Canadian Winter Games. They won the championship.
From 1970 to 1978 Boese was the head coach of the University of Waterloo wrestling teams. In 1972 he was the Olympic wrestling coach for the Munich Olympic Games. In 1979 Kurt Boese was elected to the Canadian Amateur Wrestling Hall of Fame.