North Carolina College Wrestling Programs
With just 15 states left to list their college wrestling programs we make the transition from 2015 to 2016 by looking at the college teams in North Carolina. Even in our home state we are lacking complete information on all of the teams especially the schools with discontinued programs. We welcome news, history, results and input from other wrestlers, coaches and fans. Please contact us at martinkfleming@gmail.com.
| Those we have some records of, | ||||||||||||||
| School | Lev. | Wins | Losses | Ties | Pct. | First Yr. (fall) | Latest Year | Yrs. | Most Wins Coach | Years | Wins | 2015 | ||
| Appalachian State | I | 770 | 436 | 24 | 0.636 | 1932-1933 | 2015 | a | 76 | Mance, Paul | 1976-2009 | 348 | (9-8) | NC |
| North Carolina State | I | 651 | 473 | 22 | 0.578 | 1924-1925 | 2015 | a | 87 | Guzzo, Bob | 1975-2004 | 356 | (16-6) | NC |
| North Carolina University | I | 646 | 492 | 19 | 0.567 | 1922-1923 | 2015 | a | 93 | Lam, Bill | 1974-2003 | 378 | (11-6) | NC |
| North Carolina-Pembroke, Univ. of | II | 508 | 259 | 3 | 0.662 | 1967-1968 | 2015 | a | 48 | Smith, P.J. | 1981-2006 | 255 | (13-4) | NC |
| Duke University | I | 434 | 492 | 10 | 0.469 | 1926-42,43-46,47 | 2015 | a | 87 | Harvey, Bill | 1966-1997 | 220 | (11-7) | NC |
| Campbell University | I | 356 | 421 | 5 | 0.458 | 1968-1969 | 2015 | a | 47 | Miller, Scott | 1990-1999 | 83 | (0-10) | NC |
| Davidson College | I | 315 | 669 | 18 | 0.323 | 1920-1921 | 2015 | a | 89 | Parker, Charlie | 1940-42,’46-’75,’77-’79 | 99 | (6-15) | NC |
| Livingstone College | II | 152 | 49 | 3 | 0.752 | 1970-1971 | 1990 | x | 20 | Gorney, Blaine | 1980-1990 | 121 | xxx | NC |
| North Carolina-Greensboro, Univ. of | I | 132 | 134 | 4 | 0.496 | 1993-1994 | 2011 | x | 18 | Moore, Denny | 1993-2002 | 57 | xxx | NC |
| East Carolina Univ. | I | 120 | 41 | 3 | 0.741 | 1963-1964 | 1981 | x | 18 | Welborn, John | 1967-1977 | 94 | xxx | NC |
| Elon College | I | 92 | 85 | 0 | 0.520 | 1935-’38, 1967- | 1987 | x | 23 | Brown, Mickey | 1967-1978 | 55 | xxx | NC |
| Garner-Webb University | I | 86 | 175 | 4 | 0.332 | 1987-1988 | 2015 | a | 28 | Wince, Dick | 1990-’07,’09-’12 | 52 | (8-10) | NC |
| Chowan College | JUCO | 76 | 26 | 4 | 0.736 | 1971-1972 | 1991 | x | 20 | Taylor, Jody | 1987-1990 | 42 | xxx | NC |
| Wilkes Community College | JUCO | 66 | 9 | 2 | 0.870 | 1987-1988 | 1992 | x | 5 | Norman, Herman | 1987-1992 | 66 | xxx | NC |
| North Carolina A & T | I | 65 | 24 | 1 | 0.728 | 1972-1973 | 1977-1978 | x | 6 | Pinckney, Melvin | 1972-1978 | 65 | xxx | NC |
| Belmont Abbey College | II | 58 | 126 | 5 | 0.320 | 2005-2006 | 2015 | a | 10 | Caudell, Kenn | 2005-2015 | 58 | (7-14) | NC |
| Pfeiffer College | II | 56 | 50 | 5 | 0.527 | 1955-1956 | 1977-1978 | x | 20 | Daniels, Jerry | 1964-1967 | 32 | xxx | NC |
| St. Andrews Presbyterian | NAIA | 55 | 107 | 0 | 0.340 | 1961-’71, 2006- | 2015 | a | 18 | Baranik, Joe | 2006-2015 | 36 | (10-9) | NC |
| Elizabeth City State Univ. | II | 48 | 23 | 1 | 0.674 | 1966-1967 | 1972-1976 | x | 10 | Little, Thomas (Thurlis) H. | 1972-1977 | 42 | xxx | NC |
| Western Carolina University | I | 41 | 32 | 1 | 0.561 | 1947-1948 | 1974-1975 | x | 28 | Setzer, Bob | 1968-1975 | 41 | xxx | NC |
| North Carolina-Wilmington, Univ. of | I | 31 | 34 | 3 | 0.478 | 1964-1965 | 1973 | x | 9 | Sproles, Charles | 1964-1973 | 24 | xxx | NC |
| Winston-Salem State | III | 15 | 31 | 3 | 0.337 | 1972-1973 | 1993-1994 | x | 22 | Edwards, Mike | 1977-1978 | 5 | xxx | NC |
| North Carolina Central | II | 11 | 17 | 0 | 0.393 | 1971-1972 | 1976-1977 | x | 6 | Carter, James E. | 1976-1977 | 9 | xxx | NC |
| Catawba College | II | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0.654 | 1969-1970 | 1983 | x | 14 | Meyer, Frank “Dutch” | 1969-1983 | 8 | xxx | NC |
| Methodist College (Univ.) | III | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0.364 | 1966-1967 | 1971 | x | 5 | Sykes, Mason | 4 | xxx | NC | |
| Wake Forest University. | I | 3 | 37 | 1 | 0.085 | 1954-1955 | 1960 | x | 6 | Hipps, Don | 1954-1958 | 3 | xxx | NC |
| North Carolina Pre-Flight | I | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.500 | 1944-1945 | 1944-1945 | x | 1 | Hollobaugh, Lt. S.S. | 1944-1945 | 2 | xxx | NC |
| North Carolina Wesleyan | III | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.250 | 1964-1965 | 1968 | x | 4 | 0 | xxx | NC | ||
| North Carolina-Charlotte, Univ. of | I | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0.000 | 1969-1970 | 1971-1972 | x | 3 | Alder, Craig | 0 | xxx | NC | |
| Discontinued Programs with no historical records | ||||||||||||||
| Barber-Scotia College | JUCO | 0 | 0 | 0 | —— | x | ???? | 0 | xxx | NC | ||||
| Greensboro College | III | 0 | 0 | 0 | —— | 2015-2016 | a | 0 | Wince, Erik | 2015-2016 | 0 | xxx | NC | |
| Guilford College | III | 0 | 0 | 0 | #### | 1974-1975 | x | 1 | Whitley, Heber | 1974-1975 | 0 | xxx | NC | |
| High Point College/University | 0 | 0 | 0 | —— | 1930-1931 | 1950 | x | 3 | Watkins, R.W. “Red” | 1930-1931 | 0 | xxx | NC | |
| St. Augustine | II | 0 | 0 | 0 | —— | x | ?????? | 0 | xxx | NC | ||||
| Wingate University | II | 0 | 0 | 0 | —— | x | 0 | xxx | NC | |||||
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