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Coach Halas was born and raised in Saginaw, Michigan, where he attended Arthur Hill High School. He ran track and cross country in high school, but his primary sport was wrestling, in which he was a two-time MVP. He earned his degree in secondary education of English from Northern Michigan University, where he also founded the Wild Cats Wrestling Club and began his coaching career in 2005 at Marquette Senior High School.
After growing up in the inner city and living 4.5 years in a small college town in the far north, Coach Halas took his first full-time English teaching position in rural Hertford County, North Carolina in 2010. He immediately became the head wrestling coach and won the Eastern Coastal Conference Coach of the year award in 2013. In the summer of 2013 he moved to Hopewell, Virginia to teach English at Hopewell High School. He again immediately became the head coach of the wrestling team and became the head cross country coach in his second year at HHS.
In 2015, Halas became an instructional/innovation coach for HCPS, but still teaches one full-time English class at HHS. He has since earned his master's degree in Educational Leadership and a certification in Cabinetry and furniture making. He runs the maker space at HHS where students from multiple classes come to create hands-on products via project-based learning. Recreationally, he enjoys cinema, books, video games, and woodworking. You can see some of the work he and his students have done on his Instagram page here.
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