Real Teens

Real Struggles

Real Triumphs

Real Inspiration

Are you curious how a clinically depressed teacher, who coached wrestling, transformed a group of forgotten teenagers into champions? After being discharged from a psychiatric care unit, on anti-depressants, and with no job prospects, a lost man from the Pacific Northwest, reluctantly moved to Southern California.

There, Scott Glabb (Award-winning teacher and coach) found a generation of equally lost kids and how they each found inner strength to fight day after day on and off the wrestling mat while everyone else was saying it was impossible to succeed. Each of Glabb’s wrestlers could yet stumble and fall, naturally fulfilling society’s unnatural expectations of gang life, prepping juvenile hall, and matriculating into prison or at best becoming high school dropouts groomed for minimum wage jobs and barely supported illegitimate children. They were to be shepherded into foregoing their dreams once they grew strong enough to do a man or woman’s work that would help to support a stream of siblings. What difference did their dreams make when they knew they would never be anywhere else but where they already were?

A Saint in the City chronicles the true stories of teenagers who grew up in gang-infested neighborhoods, from poverty-stricken immigrant families and nearly all never saw a reason to hope for anything until a young teacher and coach believed in them. With grit and determination, Coach Glabb and his wrestlers stared adversity in the face, took on insurmountable challenges, and did what everyone else believed was impossible to do…Win.

As a result, his story stands out from so many others who tend to give in at the first sign of trouble, as his efforts remind us that the greatest victories are always the hardest fought.