Administrator of the Year - 2008

Mitch Beims
Holton

Mitch Beims has been successful at all levels of wrestling.  He began as a youth in USAW, progressed through high school and college, moved into coaching, and is now being honored as KWCA Administrator of the Year.  Beims is currently Assistant Principal/Athletic Director at Holton High School.  He has also been co-tournament manager for the 4A State Wrestling Tournament and is a member of the committee to bring Division 1 wrestling to Kansas.

Beims’s coaching career began as an assistant coach at St. Marys High School, then became  a Social Studies teacher and Head Wrestling Coach at Russell High School, then moved to Coppell, Texas where he was a Social Studies teacher and Head Wrestling Coach, and finally he became the Head Wrestling Coach and Government Teacher at Colby High School.  He has also coached team Kansas for the Down Under Games in Australia in 1999 and 2001.

While coaching at CHS Beims’s team won the 4A State Tournament. Beims has won a number of awards as a coach:  2006 4A Regional Coach of the Year, 2001-2002 4A KWOA Coach of the Year, 2001 Salina Journal Coach of the Year, and 2001 Coach for the East-West All-State Classic.

In 1994 Beims graduate from Colby Community College where is was a 2-time NJCAA All-American, in 1996 he graduated from Kansas State University with a Bachelors Degree, and in 2005 he graduated from Fort Hays State University with a Masters Degree.

While in high school, Beims was a state champion in 1991 for Atwood High School and was a member of Atwood High School’s 1989 state championship wrestling team.