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September 5 - Jim Miller
Coach Miller spent the majority of his thirty-seven year career at Wartburg College in Waverly, IA. He retired with ten NCAA D3 titles. Prior to coaching, he competed for the University of Northern Iowa, where he was a three-time NCAA D2 All-American (including two titles) and was also a two-time D1 All-American (and NCAA Runner-up) in an era when top D2 and D3 finishers qualified for the D1 tourney. He remains active in the sport with clinics and appearances. He also travels the country delivering motivational messages to a variety of audiences. He will serve as the headliner for the 2018 Fall Clinic.

September 7 - Sarah Bollinger
Sarah Bollinger was named Head Coach for Southwestern College's new Woman's wrestling program last spring after a national search. She comes with a wealth of both competitive and coaching experience.

Prior to Southwestern, Coach Bollinger spent three years as an assistant at her alma mater, Missouri Baptist, under the direction of long-time coach Brian Jackson and also served as a national age-group coach for both Team California and Team Missouri. She was a 2X Fargo All-American as a prep while wrestling for California, her home state, where she was also a Freestyle State Champion. Sarah went on to earn three All-American finishes in the multi-divisional Woman's Collegiate Wrestling Association (WCWA) national tournament.

Coach Bollinger will be presenting at the 2018 KWCA Fritz Knorr Fall Clinic, slated for October 5-6 in Salina.[u][/u]

Sarah Bollinger's interview is now posted.

September 12 - Marcus Robinson

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Ark City's Marcus Robinson was selected as the 2018 4A Wrestler of the Year after finishing his career with what most only dream of… four State Titles. The honor student and current University of Buffalo Bull finished his high school career in the familiar simply adorned gold singlet with large purple block lettering with a 177-25 record to go along with the four State Titles.

The 2017-18 season was special on several fronts for Robinson. Ark City won its state-leading twenty-first State Championship, but first during Robinson's high school days. His brothers Montez and Christian were also part of the title run, with Montez (a current senior) winning his second straight title. The team put six in the finals and left the Bicentennial Center in Salina with four individual titles and a cushion of nearly sixty points over Runner-up, Andover Central.

Marcus now has his sights set on continuing his winning ways at the college level at the University of Buffalo.
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September 14 - Damon Parker

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Damon Parker is about to begin his eighth season as head coach at Washburn Rural High School. He took over a program that finished near the bottom of the 6A standings at the 2012 State tournament to a program that finished just shy of the 2018 6A State Championship. Along the way, he has collected a dual mark of 95-36 and has been recognized as city coach of the year three times in addition to the Kansas Wrestling Officials Association Coach of the Year. He was named Co-Coach of the Year for the 2017-18 season by the Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association, sharing the honor with Josh Carroll of Olathe North.

September 19 - James Beltch

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Jim Beltch was a 1958 graduate of Goodland High School where he was also the Senior Class President. During his final season on the mat, Jim won the State Championship in the 98-pound weight class while leading the Cowboys to a fourth-place team finish in the era when Kansas competed in a single-class system in wrestling.

He went on to compete for Ft. Hays State University. Beltch became a three-time Missouri Valley Conference Champion. As a junior in 1961, he placed third at the NAIA National tournament in Golden, Colorado at 115 pounds. He followed that up with a Runner-up performance in the same weight class when Winona, Minnesota hosted in 1962. At the time Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania was a powerhouse. The Bald Eagles were led by Beltch's finals opponent, Gray Simons. Simons, who still gets mentioned among the all-time greats of wrestling in the United States, was a four-time NAIA National champion, three-time NCAA Champion, and two-time Olympian.

September 21 - Bill Christner

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Bill Christner went out on top. The Abilene coach won the last of his three state titles in his final year at the helm of the Cowboys program in 2003. That season marked an impressive second half of his sixteen-year tenure that included seven top ten State finishes in a row. Among those finishes were titles in 1998, 1999 and 2003 and a third-place trophy in 2001.
Christner started his wrestling coaching career at Smith Center where he was an assistant from 1982-85. From 1985-87, he spent time as an assistant at Abilene, his alma mater, before taking over the program in 1987.

He continued to teach and coach at Abilene Middle School until his retirement in 2015. He coached a variety of sports at AMS including Track & Field, Wrestling, and Golf.
His Hall of Fame induction comes after his storied career that came with several Coach of the Year honors and other recognition; not bad considering his one-year competitive wrestling career during his senior year at Abilene High.

In addition to his accomplishments at the 4A State tournament, the Christner-led Cowboys accumulated 109 dual victories and won five North Central Kansas League titles. His teams also brought home five Regional titles.

Coach Christner participated in both football and Track & Field at Bethany College during his undergrad days. He also has a Master's Degree from Kansas State University.
Since retiring he has focused on his ranching business in the Abilene area.

[b]September 25 - Nathan Butler[/b]

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Nathan Butler graduated from Stanford University last spring with a Master's degree in Computer Science. Along the way the 2013 Leavenworth High School graduate, who was a four-time State Medalist and three-time State Champion as a prep, also became the most credentialed heavyweight in the history of the Stanford program.

He claimed over one-hundred career victories, qualified for the NCAA Championships all four years, and was crowned PAC 12 Champion in 2015 for the guys in Cardinal. He also represented the US at the 2015 Junior World Championships in Brazil where he claimed a Bronze medal. Additionally, he placed seventh at the 2017 US Open qualifying him for the Senior World Team Trials, where he placed fourth.

His academic exploits earned him the PAC 12 Scholar Athlete of the Year award last spring.

Butler has moved on from a lifetime competing in wrestling and has embarked on his professional career. After spending the past summers interning at Bloomberg in New York and at Apple's headquarters in California, he is living in the Bay area and working at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

September 27 - Nate Naasz

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KWCA President Nate Naasz joins the program to promote the clinic and give a last push to attend the 2018 Fall Clinic.