I thought it would be cool to see some of the coaching tree's out there (Coaches former wrestlers that are now head coaches). I will start with my old high school coach David Brown (Fort Scott) his coaching tree is solid in Southeast Kansas
David Brown's former Fort Scott wrestlers that are now head coaches
L.C. Davis Pittsburg
Andy Albright Chanute
Alvin Metcalf Jr. Fort Scott
Darvin Willard Paola (just named head coach at Paola)
Cody Kramer Uniontown
Brett Kramer Jayhawk-Linn
I'm bias but that's pretty impressive!! lol
Not all wrestled for same coach but all graduated from Atwood High School:
Regan Erickson- Santa Fe Trail
Mitch Beims- Formerly Colby High School
Scott Urban- Atwood Rawlins County
Joseph Sramek- Goodland High School
Jeremy Samson- Trego Community High School
Rick Williams- Colby Assistant Coach
Tim McFee- Atwood Rawlins County Assistant
Jeff Buck- Cherokee Trails High School in Colorado
Entire staff for Colby 2001 state championship Mitch Beims, Scott Urban, and Ray Higley all Atwood Alumni
I may be missing a few.
Lee Woodford, HOF coach from Manhattan, has a pretty impressive coaching tree as well. I hesitate to post as I am sure to forget some, but these are the first that come to mind:
Adam Polansky, Republic County Head Coach
Kale Mann, BVHS Head Coach
Mike Bammes, Barton County CC Head Coach
D. Parker, WRHS Head Coach
Anthony Whetstone, Ark City Asst. Coach
Cordell Black, Manhattan Asst. Coach (form.)
Steve Perchellet, Manhattan Asst. Coach (form.)
Jason Brown, Anderson Co/Sabetha HC, WW Asst Co.
Shawn Bammes, Manhattan Asst. Coach
I'm sure I'm forgetting someone, but Brad Fredrickson (KWCA HOF 2014) of Plainville inspired a solid line of KS high school coaches. Here are the head coaches that I could think of:
Joe Dreher (Oberlin)
Ryan Becker (Plainville & Osborne)
DJ Basgall (Plainville)
Brandon Terry (Augusta & Herington)
Corey Dobson (Plainville)
Shane Bird (Oberlin)
Cole Fredrickson (Marysville)
Dan Weigel (Russell) – didn’t wrestle for Fredrickson but did for Dobson
I'm sure I'm forgetting someone, but Brad Fredrickson (KWCA HOF 2014) of Plainville inspired a solid line of KS high school coaches. Here are the head coaches that I could think of:
Joe Dreher (Oberlin)
Ryan Becker (Plainville & Osborne)
DJ Basgall (Plainville)
Brandon Terry (Augusta & Herington)
Corey Dobson (Plainville)
Shane Bird (Oberlin)
Cole Fredrickson (Marysville)
Dan Weigel (Russell) – didn’t wrestle for Fredrickson but did for Dobson
You could expand that one level above Brad and the Buzz Matson tree out of Oberlin was solid. I know I am probably missing a few but you could include Brad Fredrickson, Jon Lippelmann in that. I know some of you could expand on that better than me.
Coaching tree of Pudge Wilson at DCCC. I would imagine there are quite a few more, but these are the ones I wrestled with.
Jude Wilson, St. Mary
Mark Dudney, St Mary
Chris Schaefer, Silver Lake
Lance Walker, Cimmrron
Chuck Schremmer, SES
Brandon Armbruster, Ellis
The next two have coached, but they turned officiating.
Josh Bierra
Chad Harris