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Top Active Division III Coaches in Dual Meet Wins

TDR Editor’s Notes ; This list of college coaches by the number of dual meet victories in which they led their teams while in Division III. Active D-III Coaches with connections to North Carolina schools include Jamie Gibbs at Baldwin-Wallace who coached at UnC-Pembroke before going on to Ohio. Just outside being on this list is Scott Honacker at Williams College with 95 wins. He is also the top all-time coach in wins while at Williams. Before taking the reins at this historic college in the moutains of western Massachusetts Scot was the head coach at J. H. Rose High School in Greenville. Listed are just the top 35 coaches but we seek to keep track of all. We welcome input, information and reactions to us at martinkfleming@gmail.com

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ACTIVE Coaches(D-III)– Top 35 (or so) with at least 100 wins

  1. Roger Crebs (Lycoming College)                              439
  2. Lonnie Morris (Johnson & Wales)                             422
  3. Ron Beaschler (Ohio Northern Univ.)                       374
  4. Bruce Haberli (New York University)                       335 
  5. Dave Mitchell (Luther College)                                 315
  6. Tim Fader (Wis.-Eau Claire,Whitewater, La Crosse) 300
  7. Martin Nichols (Ithaca College)                                 299
  8. Jon Laudenslager (Wilkes University)                       282
  9. John Oostendorp (Coe College)                                 266
  10. Jay Jones (Rhode Island College)                  261
  11. Bryan Brunk   (Messiah College)                   255
  12. Brad Bruhn (SUNY-Cortland)                       236 – retired in 2022
  13. Dave Malecek (Wisconsin-LaCrosse State)  220
  14. Drew Black (Wesleyan Univ.)                       219
  15. Johnny Johnson (Wisconsin-Stevens Point)  206 – retired in 2021
  16. Duane Ritter (SUNY Oneonta State)             195
  17. Mike Howard (SUNY-Oswego State)            184 
  18. Jon Egan (Roger Williams) –                          183
  19. Jon McGovern (Dubuque University) –          171
  20. Eric Keller   (Wartburg College) –                 168
  21. Craig Thurber (Thiel College) –                     167
  22. Brian Anderson (Wabash College) –              161 
  23. Jamie Gibbs (Baldwin-Wallace) –                  154 
  24. Leo Kocher (University of Chicago)              148 –  inc.
  25. Joe Galente (College of New Jersey)             145
  26. Steve Marianetti (Elmhurst College) –           144 
  27. Eric Van Kley (Central College) 136
  28. James Holder (Springfield College) 131
  29. Ron Headlee (Waynesburg Univ.) 130
  30. Brandon Bissette (Olivet College) 129
  31. Jason Garriques (Centenary College) 127
  32. Greg Ilaria (U.S. Merchant Marine) –            120
  33. Al Russomano (Scranton Univ.)                    112
  34. Joe Favia (Stevens Institute of Tech.)            103
  35. Keith Norris (John Hopkins Univ.)                102

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