Terry Steiner (from left), Gov. Kelly Armstrong and Troy Steiner at the Rough Rider Award ceremony.
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFGO) – Acclaimed wrestlers and coaches Terry and Troy Steiner receive North Dakota’s highest honor: the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award.
The twins were raised in Bismarck.
Troy was on the U.S. national team nine times and placed third at the Olympic trials in 1992 and 1996. He’s been a coach at several schools including Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa.
“For our family, the foundation brings this entire journey full circle,” Troy said. “We want to help create those same kinds of opportunities for another generation of young North Dakotans. And while wrestling will always be a part of our story, this isn’t just about wrestling. It’s about sport, it’s about young people, and it’s about opportunity. And it’s about giving back to a state and to the people who gave so much to us.”
Terry was also on the U.S. national team and was a 1996 Pan Am champion and has been the head coach of Team USA’s women’s team since 2002.
“The Rough Rider Award represents the very best of what it means to come from this state. To be included among those who have received it is something we don’t take lightly,” Terry Steiner said. “While our names may be attached to this award, the truth is this recognition belongs to a lot of people. It belongs to our family, it belongs to our coaches, our mentors, our teammates, and our community. It belongs to the people of North Dakota who helped shape us into who we are today. We didn’t just grow up in North Dakota. North Dakota built us.”
“Achieving such greatness and success would have been enough for some athletes, but Troy and Terry have continued to give back to the sport that has given them so much,” Governor Kelly Armstrong said. “As coaches and ambassadors, their impact and influence on the sport of wrestling cannot be measured. They have inspired countless young men and women to pursue the sport of wrestling.”
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