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Active Coaches Top 40s Lists – Part Three

Coaches’ Top 40 Lists
As of late October or in other words before the start of this season the following are the top Active coaches in each category. Keep in mind that there are some coaches tied with the same number of wins and thus if one sees that just note that they rank at the highest level of the two. This looks at Coaches in Divisions II and III. We welcome input, information and corrections, – please send.
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Top 25 ACTIVE Coaches (NAIA) – w/ at least 25 wins as of July 2019

  1. Mike Ritchey (Southern Oregon)       231
  2. Mike Machholz (Missouri Valley)      206
  3. Franky James  (Campbellsville) —       170
  4. James Kisgen (McKendree College)  — 163
  5. Caleb Schaeffer (Providence Univ./Great Falls)  133
  6. Nick Mitchell (Grand View College)    – 128
  7. Corey Ruff (Lindsey-Wilson)                –   89
  8. Tyson Thivierge (Montana State Northern)  –  81
  9. K.C. Rock  (Embry-Riddle College)  — 62
  10. Jake Stevenson (Morningside College)  —  58
  11. Rik Dahl (Northwestern College)           —   58
  12. Lennie Zalesky (Calif. Baptist Univ.)      – 55  – now D-I school
  13. Beau Vest (Dana-Midland)                    —  55 – now at another level
  14. Joey Martinez (Menlo)                            —   53
  15. Aaron Meister (Wayland Baptist)           —   51
  16. Joe Baranik (St. Andrews)                       —  50
  17. Kerry Regner (Williams Baptist College) –   47
  18. Brian Jackson (Missouri Baptist)             —   46  inc.
  19. Thomas Pompei (Indiana Institute of Technology) — 44
  20. Frank Romano (Notre Dame College)     —   40 to D-II in 2012
  21. Omi Acosta (Life University)                    — 35
  22. Chris Fleeger (Univ. of the Cumberlands) – 33
  23. Shawn Kelley (Hastings/SiTanka)         —     32 
  24. James Hicks (Cumberland Univ.)         —     31
  25. Andrew Nicola (Concordia Univ. Nebr.) —  28

ACTIVE Women’s Coaches– Top 10 with 20 or more wins       

  1. Jason Moorman (King Univ.)                        116
  2. Sam Schmitz (McKendree Univ.)                   62
  3. Lee Miracle (Campbellsville)              55
  4. Brian Jackson (Missouri Baptist)                    52 – inc.
  5. Aaron Meister (Wayland Baptist College)     45
  6. Donnie Stephens (Univ. of the Cumberlands)   45
  7. Tony DeAnda (Jamestown)                            33
  8. Tony Champion (Southern Oregon State)       22
  9. David Mathews (Life University)                     22
  10. Joey Bareng (Menlo College)                  —       21

ACTIVE Coaches–  Top 10         JUCO with at least 30 wins

  1. Pat Whitcomb (North Idaho Coll.)       273 – resigned Jan. 2019
  2. Joe Renfro (Labette, Kan.)                  204
  3. Luke Moffitt (Iowa Central Comm. Coll.)  158
  4. Josh Rhoden (Clackamas Comm. Coll.)   141
  5. Harry McGinnis (Triton Comm. Coll.)   90 inc.
  6. Josh Watts (Iowa Western Comm. Coll.)   74  inc.
  7. Jim Zeigler (Northwest Wyoming)            58  inc.
  8. Cole Spree (Ellsworth Comm. Coll.)         54
  9. Cody Alesch (Iowa Lakes Comm. Coll)    32
  10. Art Castillo (Western Wyoming)          31 inc.

ACTIVE Coaches– California Junior Colleges  – Top 6 with 100 wins          

  1. Dave Pacheo (Sacramento City College)                301
  2. Paul Keysaw (Fresno City/Moorpark College)      238
  3. Jake Fitzpatrick (Santa Rosa College)                      232  — inc.
  4. Dan Garriott (Cerritos College)                               140
  5. Vince Silva (Santa Ana College)                               131
  6. Joe Dansby (Cuesta College)                                    112

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Sussex County C.C. to start wrestling program

TDR Notes; More Good News about another new wrestling program starting up.
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Wrestling will soon be one of the sport options at Sussex County Community College (SCCC).The College intends to compete in Wrestling during the 2020-2021 wrestling season. Leading the Wrestling Skylanders will be newly hired Wrestling Recruiter and Head Coach Chris Burdge, who is a former Kittatinny High School and Centenary University standout wrestler. At Centenary he was a four-time NCAA Division III All-American 2010-2014, two-time NCAA Division III Scholar All-American 2011-2014 and three-year captain at Centenary. Coach Burdge will recruit for the 2019-2020 school ear for SCCC’s new Wrestling Team, and serve as coach.
Rest of the story at http://www.spartaindependent.com/news/sports/sccc-to-start-wrestling-program-CE677477?mc_cid=6feecf2e4d&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

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