Kansas Wrestling Forums General Discussion High School Recently graduated wrestlers turned coach

Zach Hemmerling graduated last year 03' and is now a coach at seaman high school

Beau Vest graduated about eight years ago from Topeka High. He is know our head coach, which really sucks because he kicks my a** everyday.

I know that this coach doesnt fall w/in the 5-6 yr wrestler to coach span, but ill say it anyways.

- Joel Rios wrestled for Emporia i think about 15 yrs ago. He was a state runner up his senior yr and GRAND STATE CHAMPION at either 98lbs or 103lbs his senior yr. The dude is a freaking pimp. He now is the head coach for SMS.

Yeah, grand state. Like THAT's hard to win. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Give me a break.

According to the KWCA web site, the list of Grand State Champions does not include Joel Rios.

Kansas High School State Champions

1975 - (All) Newell, Dave [Norton] (Grand state 98 lb. )
1975 - (All) Mosley, Dave [Derby] (Grand state 105 lb. )
1975 - (All) Hershberger, Kendall [Kapaun Mount Carmel] (Grand state 112 lb. )
1975 - (All) Duell, Doug [Goodland] (Grand state 119 lb. )
1975 - (All) Middleton, Levi [Bonner Springs] (Grand state 126 lb. )
1975 - (All) Payne, Gregg [Wichita South] (Grand state 132 lb. )
1975 - (All) Strutt, Darvin [Oakley] (Grand state 138 lb. )
1975 - (All) Amrein, Jeff [Miege] (Grand state 145 lb. )
1975 - (All) Boyle, Bill [Shawnee Mission West] (Grand state 155 lb. )
1975 - (All) Keller, Perry [Saint Francis] (Grand state 167 lb. )
1975 - (All) Blackwell, Tim [Wichita North] (Grand state 185 lb. )
1975 - (All) Zuege, Les [Saint Francis] (Grand state Unlimited )
1975 - (All) Kapaun Mount Carmel [Kapaun Mount Carmel]
(Grand state Team Champion Kapaun 40.5, runnerup Oberlin 35)


1976 - (All) Frazier, Ken [Wichita East] (Grand state 98 lb. )
1976 - (All) Bontz, Martin [Kapaun Mount Carmel] (Grand state 105 lb. )
1976 - (All) Tolbert, Herbert [Newton] (Grand state 112 lb. )
1976 - (All) Smith, Kent [Concordia] (Grand state 119 lb. )
1976 - (All) Schmidt, Danny [Thomas More Prep] (Grand state 126 lb. )
1976 - (All) Baker, Kirk [Goodland] (Grand state 132 lb. )
1976 - (All) Duell, Fred [Goodland] (Grand state 138 lb. )
1976 - (All) Alstrom, Tom [Oberlin] (Grand state 145 lb. )
1976 - (All) Stueve, Mark [Emporia] (Grand state 155 lb. )
1976 - (All) Oeser, Roy [Kapaun Mount Carmel] (Grand state 167 lb. )
1976 - (All) Madden, Henry [Effingham] (Grand state 185 lb. )
1976 - (All) Culbertson, Mike [Leavenworth] (Grand state Unlimited )
1976 - (All) Kapaun Mount Carmel [Kapaun Mount Carmel]
(Grand state Team Champion Kapaun 74,runnerup Goodland & Oberlin 45)

I know that Abilene's former Heavyweight state Champion Corey Casteel is coaching at Cherryvale

John Moses (state champ from Dodge city is an asst. coach at NW.

Andy Albright (state placer from Fort Scott) Head Coach at Chanute

Brent Cunningham (state champ from Dodge) Head Coach at Dodge City.

Matt Berthot (Ark City state champ) Asst. Wichita East High School

Terrell Brown (state champ Wichita South) Asst. East High School

Mike Church (myself) (state champ Wichita South High School) Asst. Wichita South High School

Brian Shelton (old school) Head Coach Valley Center High School.

I know there are a lot more, I just can't think of them off the top of my head or which school they are at.

thats strange because im almost sure that he is.

Chad austin Graduated from burlington in 1999 or 98 now coaching as an assistant at topeka west, I think

Paul Myers (state champ) and Ryan McAninch (6th in state) who both wrestled on West High's "94" State Championship team are now coaching the Wichita Independent Middle School team.

I'll go old school with Todd Drake he coaches at Andover (I think the origional not Central)...also I know that another former wrestler by the name of Bo Maynes of Salina South/Oklahoma University has been coaching the Norman kids club team with an OU teammate of his that slipped my mind, but I talked with Bo back at the Edmond kids tournament that was hosted at Central Oklahoma back around late November early December and he told me that he may end up back in Kasas coaching at....ABILENE!!!!!! Say it ain't so BO!!!

I know this doesn't fit the 5-6 year range but here's a couple more. Shawnee Mission Northwest has two former state placers as assistants, Quentin Hammontree (SMNW) 3rd-91, 1st-92 and Randy Hill (Wamego) 2nd-74. It did make me feel old last weekend at Bonner Springs when I sat across the mat from Zach Hemmerling. His dad, Dwight, coached me for two years at Wamego in 73 & 74. rh

We have three excellent young assistants on our staff at Baldwin HS. Two of them competed for me in high school.

**Jarrod Steffens, Scott City HS. 3x state qualifier, 4th as senior. Current Baker University senior, All-conference defensive lineman.

**Witt Hinton, Baldwin HS. 2x state placer (5th and 1st). Currently in pharmacy program at Johnson County/KU.

**Logan Corbin, Washburn Rural HS. 3x state qualifier, regional champion, school record 118 takedowns as junior. Current KU senior.

We also previously had another great assistant coach who has since moved on to his first full-time teaching/coaching job at Washburn Rural HS. Bobby Bovaird coached with us for four years while attending Baker. He was a 2x state placer (6th and 4th).

Kit,

Do you know what ever happened to Stan Higley? I wrestled with him at Ft. Hays and I think he coached at Baldwin for a while in the late 70s or early 80s. rhill

I am not sure where he is. I do know he coached here, I have seen his name. I can ask around and see what I can find out, we have quite a few hangers-around here I can check with...Merle Venable ought to be able to help me out.

I remember David Karnowski (wamego) was coaching at Wamego for a while...where is he at?

chad butler from olathe east?, and chaz thompson from chapman both coach at russell.

Aaron,

Dave Karnowski and his wife now own a pet shop in Aggieville here in Manhattan its pretty darn cool too. I want to know about this whole Bo Maynes thing, cause I haven't heard one peep about that im sure that would have been said in the Abilene wrestling community ad it been true.

J.C. Norman is coaching a collage and is from Abilene,Kansas.

Bryan Miller
Frosh 3RD
soph 2nd
Junior 1st
Senior 3rd
senior nationals 5th
juco nationals 5th and 2nd
coaching at Atwood