Coach McCrary is originally from Winston-Salem. He attended Forsyth Country Day School, where his father founded the wrestling program in the 1980s. Coach McCrary won multiple conference championships, was a two-time top 3 state placer and was captain of the 2005 wrestling team that garnered the most single season wins of any team in any sport in FCDS history.

He returned to FCDS as a faculty member in 2011 where he coached middle school and varsity wrestling through the 2014 season. During that time, he had the privilege of coaching multiple individual state placers and champions. He currently lives in Winston-Salem with his wife, Tiffany, a 6th grade teacher at CDS, and son, Hudson, a kindergartener at CDS. In his spare time, he can be found with his family pursuing endless outdoor adventures. They attend Reynolda Church Kernersville. Coach McCrary is very excited and humbled to be a part of the CDS wrestling program and is dedicated to fostering the same environment his high school coaches created to instill the values of character, perseverance, and responsibility through the sport.