Dresser and 5 others ??

[Alces Alces Gigas]

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I've seen it written that Dresser is 1 of 6 coaches to win team trophies at two different schools. Douglas, Sanderson and Dresser, who are the other three?

[gimpeltf]

All 3 with Iowa State.

Does Joe Seay count? He won DII titles and likely would have placed if they counted points those years while also at D1.

[MNRodent]

J Robinson won a bunch at Minnesota and one at Iowa as acting head coach the year that Gable took an Olympic year off.

Edited April 18 by MNRodent

[fishbane]

Bill Koll?  I think he coached UNI to a 3rd place finish and PSU to a 4th place finish.  Top 4 get trophies.

[fishbane]

1971 PSU Tied for 4th place with Koll as the coach and in 1953 UNI was 4th with Koll as coach.  The 3rd place finish I mentioned earlier came in 1963 when UNI had moved down to D2.  That was at the D2 tournament.

[fishbane]

Another UNI coach David McCuskey.  UNI had 7 top 4 finishes under McCuskey from 1937-1952.  McCuskey then went to coach at the University of Iowa where the Hawkeyes had 5 top 4 finishes under him.

[Alces Alces Gigas]

Great info!

[fishbane]

Actually ISU has this information in Dressers bio.

List of Coaches with a Top-4 NCAA Finish at Two Different Schools
Bill Koll (Northern Iowa & Penn State)
Bobby Douglas (Arizona State & Iowa State)
Cael Sanderson (Iowa State & Penn State) 
Dave McCuskey (Northern Iowa & Iowa)
Kevin Dresser (Virginia Tech & Iowa State)
Ray Swartz (Central Oklahoma & Navy)

[fishbane]

On 4/18/2026 at 9:15 AM, gimpeltf said:

All 3 with Iowa State.

Does Joe Seay count? He won DII titles and likely would have placed if they counted points those years while also at D1.

The Bakersfield record book has D1 NCAA team placements listed for those years.  I've attached a screenshot of the relevant part.  They have placements but no team point totals for the D2 years (before 1987). Their best placement under Joe Seay was 5th.

I don't know how they came up with the placements.  I assume they would have just calculated team points they would have earned and where that would put them in the standings. I tried that for 1979-1982 and came up with slightly different results.  Not sure why I'm different but best finish I came up with was also 5th.  The main thing preventing them from cracking the top 5 is that they only ever had 2 AAs in a given season.  Those 2 AA were always very high 1st-3rd, but it isn't enough.

[Smsu150]

On 4/18/2026 at 9:56 AM, MNRodent said:

J Robinson won a bunch at Minnesota and one at Iowa as acting head coach the year that Gable took an Olympic year off.

Gable retuned after Iowa lost to Oklahoma State that year.