2003 KWCA Fall Coaches Clinic Featured Clinicians Biographies

 

 

Dan Gable

Coach
Coached Iowa to 15 NCAA Titles
21 yr. record of 355-21-5 (94.4%)
Big Ten record of 131-2-1 (98.5%)
21 Big Ten Team Titles
Coached 45 National Champions
Coached 152 All-Americans
Coached 106 Big Ten Champions
3x NCAA Coach of the Year
7 perfect seasons
9 Consecutive NCAA titles
NCAA record of 170 team points in 1997
1980, 1984, 2000 US Olympic Head Coach
Coached 12 Hawkeye Olympians
'Sports Figure of the Century in Iowa' by Sports Illustrated

 

 

Competitor
3x Iowa High School State Champion
3x Big Eight Champion Iowa State University
3x All-American
181-1 Combined prep and college record
6x Midlands Champion
3x USA Freestyle National Champion
1971 World Champion
Outstanding Wrestler at Tbilisi Tournament
1972 Olympic Gold Medalist
Did not surrender a point in Munich Games
Top 100 Olympians of all time
Wrestler of the Century by Gannett Co.

 

 

 

Jody Thompson

Prepped at Duncan High School,  Duncan, Oklahoma,  ‘1966’

2x All –American,  Adams State University,  Alamosa Colorado, ‘1970’

2x ‘Olympic Finals Qualifier’ 1968 and 1972

Coached High School 2 state champions and 13 state placers

1970-73                            Topeka Seaman High School

1973-75                            Columbus High School

Coached AAU and Federation Teams

Kansas Juniors  National Team Head Coach,  1975- 1987

Northern and Southern Plains Kids Head Coach 1975 to 1981

Rocky Mt. Region Rep. to the USA Jr./World Committee 1994-2002

Coached at Labette Community College 1975 to 2003.

                Two National Champions and 41  All-Americans 

7 Team Academic National Championship teams

217 Academic All-Americans

                1984 NJCAA Pan American Team….Head Freestyle Coach

                NJCAA Wrestling Coaches Association, President  1996

                NJCAA Region VI  ‘Coach of the Year’ 1981,  1986, 1998

                Third most duel wins in NJCAA Wrestling History  319-105-05

                NJCAA Wrestling Coaches Hall of Fame,  1991

                NJCAA ‘Man of the Year’,  1999

Chairman NJCAA Districting Committee 1990-2003

 

 

Bob Glasgow

College Northwest Missouri State

21 years at Oak Grove HS as the head coach

11 State Team titles

Have placed first or second at the State Tournament since 1989

only finished out of the top 3 in the state once (6th in 1988) since 1983

Coached 53 State Champions

3 four time Champs

14 High School All- Americans

Missouri USA Wrestling Junior Director

Tony Purler

1993 NCAA Champion

2 time All-American

Big 8 Champion

U.S. Open National Champion

3-time U.S. Open finalist

U.S. Open Greco Roman finalist

2 time World Team Member

3 time National Team Member

Espoir National Champion

1998 World Cup Bronze Medalist

 

 

1998 Goodwill Games Bronze Medalist

1999 World Cup Silver Medalist

2 time High School National Champion

2 time Missouri State Champion

College coach 1993-2002

-         Oklahoma State

-         University of Oklahoma

-         University of Missouri

-         Clarion University

Owner of Purler Wrestling Academy