Andrassy Retires After 22 Seasons as Kent State's Head Coach

This afternoon, the Kent State athletic department announced that longtime head coach Jim Andrassy will step down and retire from his post as head coach of the Golden Flashes wrestling team. Andrassy, a Kent State alum, has led the program since the 2003-04 season and was an assistant coach for the nine years prior. 

During his tenure as head coach, Andrassy amassed a 203-197 career dual record. Under his direction, seven Golden Flash wrestlers combined to earn NCAA All-American honors on 12 occasions. Andrassy’s first All-American’s in 2009 (Nic Bedelyon and Jermail Porter) snapped a 23-year All-American-less drought at the school. 

In 2011, 197 lber Dustin Kilgore pinned Oklahoma State’s Clayton Foster to become the program’s first national champion. Two years later, Kilgore became the program’s first three-time All-American. Three years after that, Ian Miller also became a three-time All-American. 

As a team, Kent State finished atop the MAC or tied for a share of the regular season title on three occasions. At the MAC Championships, the Golden Flashes finished as conference runner-up seven times. 

Kent State will conduct a national search for Andrassy’s successor.

The team is coming off a 1-15 dual season and was 11th at the MAC Championships with 43 points.