ALL IN CAMP is pleased to announce the addition of Mark Schwab to an already stellar staff. Coach Schwab will be doing a session on PSYCHOLOGY FOR WINNING WRESTLING POSITIONS.

Coach Schwab has served as an assistant coach for Big 10 programs Minnesota and Purdue before moving on to head roles at Buena Vista (DIII) and NIACC (NjCAA).


More information on Coach Schwab below:

Courtesy of GlobeGazette.com and Andy Hamilton:

Mark Schwab’s story

Mark Schwab was on a path for wrestling greatness.

“Mark Schwab was my hero,” Iowa coach Tom Brands said.
Coach Schwab won four Iowa state high school titles before joining his older brother, Mike, at Northern Iowa.

In his first year of college, Mark placed fifth at the 1986 NCAA Championships. He redshirted the next season and made waves on the international freestyle circuit.

At the time, the Tbilisi Tournament in Russia — not the Olympics or world championships — was hailed by some as the best wrestling tournament in the world. Mark placed third at Tbilisi as a 20-year-old.

“I really thought he was going to be our next star internationally,” former Iowa coach Dan Gable said. “The reason why I say that is not just on wrestling skills, but I look at style, attitude, toughness, how they approach the sport.”

Mark was second on the U.S. Olympic ladder as a sophomore in college. He was a threat to qualify for the Seoul Games in 1988 and perhaps hang onto the spot for Barcelona in 1992 and beyond.

But everything changed with an arthroscopic surgery that went bad, leading to a staph infection that traveled to his kidneys and at one point had doctors discussing amputating his leg.

Even though he was able to come back to finish sixth for UNI at the 1990 NCAA meet, a series of operations limited the range of motion in his leg. Mark’s wrestling career was never quite the same.