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    Rollins returns to Dana to join coaching staff

    The biggest addition to the Dana College wrestling program for the 2009-2010 season may not be a person that can score even a single point. Jimmy Rollins ('08) has signed on to join the coaching staff for the upcoming season. Rollins returns to the program after a one year absence.

    Jimmy Rollins
    Jimmy Rollins spent the 2008-09 season as an assistant wrestling coach with the newly formed Iowa Lakes Wrestling Program. Rollins help lead the Lakers program to a seventh place finish at the NJCAA National Championships in 2008-09. While at Iowa Lakes he helped produce 4 All-Americans and a National Finalist.

    Prior to last season, Rollins worked on the Dana College coaching staff as a student assistant. During that time he helped produce 13 NAIA All-Americans as well as five Academic All-Americans. In the 2006-2007 season, the team was GPAC and North Region Champions. The Vikings ended the season with a fourth place performance at the National Tournament, but finished the season with the top grade point average in the Nation. In the 2007-2008 season, Dana repeated as GPAC Champions and finished the season in fifth place at the NAIA National Tournament.

    Before beginning his coaching career, Rollins began his collegiate wrestling career at Gloucester County College in New Jersey. As a freshman, he was the first ever undefeated National Champion in the school history winning the NJCAA crown at 125lbs. While at GCC, his team also won the Division III Junior College National Championship in 2002. In his sophomore season, he won the Mid-Atlantic region title, but was injured in his semi-final match forcing him to pull out of the tournament and finished in sixth place garnering another All-American season. Rollins then transferred to Dana College in Blair, Nebraska. During his junior season, he won GPAC and Central Region titles and finished 3rd in the NAIA national tournament. As a senior, Rollins defended his Central region crown and capped off his career on top of the podium winning the 133lb title at the NAIA national tournament. That season Dana College also won the NAIA team title with a record breaking performance of 193 points.

    "We are very excited to have Coach Rollins back on staff," commented Dana College Head Coach Beau Vest. "He brings a wealth of experience and energy to the room. Jimmy will help everyone in our room move to that next level."

    Rollins is a 2008 graduate from Dana College with his Education degree in Physical education. Dana College has won three straight Great Plains Athletic Conference titles.
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