Bret Maughan coaching at the NCAAs (Photo/Mark Beshey, The Guillotine)It's a homecoming of sorts for Bret Maughan, who has been named head wrestling coach at Fargo North High, the school where he earned four North Dakota state championship titles in the early 1980s.
Maughan replaces Sean Ritchie and Graelin Garlington as the Spartans' head coach.
Bret Maughan's long career as a successful wrestler and coach took root at Fargo North. He was a six-year starter for the Spartans. After placing sixth at the state tournament as an eighth grader at 98 pounds, Maughan never lost another match ... adding up 126 consecutive wins, including four straight state titles. He was selected to wrestle for Team USA at the Dapper Dan Wrestling Classic in Pittsburgh.
After graduating from Fargo North, Maughan wrestled for North Dakota State University from 1986-91. He was a three-year letterman and back-to-back NCAA Division II All-American for the NDSU (1990, 1991) in the era when the Bison wrestled in Division II. Those same years, Maughan was also a two-time Division I national qualifier back when D2 All-Americans automatically earned an invitation to wrestle at the Division I championships.
Maughan's coaching career spans more than two decades, first at Bismarck State College in North Dakota from 1993-95, then at Moorhead (Minn.) High School from 1995-2000. He then returned to his college alma mater North Dakota State where he served as an assistant coach from 2001-14, most of those years under head coach Bucky Maughan, his father, who was a 1963 NCAA Division I champ for Minnesota State Moorhead.
Bret Maughan has already earned a place of honor at his new place of employment, having been welcomed as a distinguished member of the Fargo North Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Fargo North High School Hall of Fame as an athlete. In addition, Bret Maugham has been inducted into the North Dakota High School Wrestling Hall of Fame and the NDSU Bison Athletic Hall of Fame as a member of the 1988 national championship team.
"Bret brings a wealth of experience to the position," Fargo North activities coordinator Travis Christensen told Forum Communications. "Bret cares deeply about using the sport of wrestling to help young people grow and learn."
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