As I'm sitting here with no seniors in class today, I was thinking that Matt Anderson at Crete now has 3 former assistants that are head coaches (Brian Jones-Howells, Theron Troxel-Freeman, and myself at York). What other coaches out there now have had a few assistants go on to be head coaches at other places? I know some of the legends in Nebraska wrestling obviously will have some, but I'd like to hear about any other head coaches that have turned out additional head coaches in other places. I figured the board was slow today, so I'm contributing at least!

Don Maxwell formerly of Tekamah-Herman is now head coach in Laurel-Concord.

Mattox, can almost count Tahner Thiem of WPCC as an Anderson product. That would bring the total to four.

Not necessarily former assistants, but Mike Denney has a proverbial forest when it comes to former wrestlers who have gone on to become high school or college coaches. I did a story on this many moons ago on NWI, and I seem to recall the list then was somewhere in the 40's.

Also coach McCurdy at LE has had several to go on the be coaches. Someone else will have to do the statistics. Know he also has some now that are currently assistants.

Dug up some information on Coach McCurdy. These are not his former assistants, but his former wrestlers that have gone on to coaching positions.

Head Coaches Don't check me on spelling.
Dan Davenport - Waverly
TJ Goeglier - New Liberty, MO
Joey Morrison - New head coach Lexington, NE
Jake Frosheiser - North Star
Dane Ulrich - Branson, MO

Assistant Coaches

Marcus Hellwege - Lincoln SW
Jeff Rutledge - Lincoln SE
Keenan McCurdy - Liberty, MO

That's an impressive list for Coach McCurdy. I'm sure there are other lists out there with coaches that have coached for a very long time.

Coach Heimes from Norfolk Catholic had Cody Wintz head coach Battle Creek
Justin McDuffee Head Coach at Scribner-Snyder.
Jason Konicek Head coach at Norfolk Catholic

Dick Thomas was the Head Coach at O'Neil and Elkhorn. He coached Nick Umsheid who is at McCook and Patrick Beyer who is at Bishop Neumann. His assistant coaches were Kyle Bluhm, Dan Radicia, and J.P. Holys and they all became Head Coaches at Elkhorn.

Dick Thomas while in O'Neill also coached Derek Hammerlun who is the head coach at Cozad and Dave Alder who is an assistant coach at Norfolk.

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While in O'Neill, Dick Thomas also coached Ed Schaaf (Head Coach/Broken Bow) and Jeremy Strong (Head Coach/Weeping Water).

Others under his tutelege who've had coaching experience in the past include Jimmie Johnston and Jesse Moore. He was a very influencial coach in just the short 10 year time span that he coached in O'Neill/Elkhorn.

Coach H.

Darrell Barnes has had a few wrestlers turn head coaches.
Brandon Mues - Madison
Jared Helmestrand - Arapahoe
Allen Blake - Heartland Lutheran

Dan Brost of Mullen has a few former wrestlers now head coaches.

Phil Hoyt - Ainsworth
Todd Hoyt - Anselmo-Merna
Matt Rogers - Kearney Catholic
Mike Kvanvig - SEM
Dean Boyer - Plainview
Kyle Hoyt - former head coach at Hyannis

Other coaches from Mullen
Ed Arends - Elwood
Vic Bradley - Chadron
Kurt Holsher - Crawford