Top Coaches - ANY sport - still active

[AgaveMaria]

We know the records Cael Sanderson is making at Penn State. A few years as an Assistant, a couple at ISU to get his feet wet and then Penn State and the stratospheric levels the program has achieved.

What are the top coaches in other Collegiate sports? What kind of records are they putting in the books? How do they compare to Cael & Co?

[steamboat_charlie]

A few examples of other programs that are still in their "dynasty window"...

Geno Auriemma - UConn Women's BBall - 11 titles
Patty Gasso - Oklahoma Softball - 6 titles since 2013
Michael Smith - Northern Arizona Cross Country - 6 titles in 7 years
Nick Saban - Alabama Football - 7 titles in the most competitive sport
Mike Holloway - Florida Track - 12 mens and women's indoor/outdoor titles since 2010 (not all under him)
David Durden - Cal Swimming - 5 team titles, 7 runner up finishes since 2010
K.J. Kindler - Oklahoma Gymnastics - 6 titles since 2014

[Paul158]

1 hour ago, steamboat_charlie said:

A few examples of other programs that are still in their "dynasty window"...

Geno Auriemma - UConn Women's BBall - 11 titles
Patty Gasso - Oklahoma Softball - 6 titles since 2013
Michael Smith - Northern Arizona Cross Country - 6 titles in 7 years
Nick Saban - Alabama Football - 7 titles in the most competitive sport
Mike Holloway - Florida Track - 12 mens and women's indoor/outdoor titles since 2010 (not all under him)
David Durden - Cal Swimming - 5 team titles, 7 runner up finishes since 2010
K.J. Kindler - Oklahoma Gymnastics - 6 titles since 2014

Nice list. Cream of the crop.

[PortaJohn]

Yufei Zhao - MIT Mathletes - 7 titles in the last 9 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.  Past 3 years, MIT students corralled all five of the top Putnam Fellow spots

[Wrestleknownothing]

3 hours ago, PortaJohn said:

Yufei Zhao - MIT Mathletes - 7 titles in the last 9 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.  Past 3 years, MIT students corralled all five of the top Putnam Fellow spots

Break up the Mithletes

[PencilNeck]

9 hours ago, steamboat_charlie said:

A few examples of other programs that are still in their "dynasty window"...

Geno Auriemma - UConn Women's BBall - 11 titles
Patty Gasso - Oklahoma Softball - 6 titles since 2013
Michael Smith - Northern Arizona Cross Country - 6 titles in 7 years
Nick Saban - Alabama Football - 7 titles in the most competitive sport
Mike Holloway - Florida Track - 12 mens and women's indoor/outdoor titles since 2010 (not all under him)
David Durden - Cal Swimming - 5 team titles, 7 runner up finishes since 2010
K.J. Kindler - Oklahoma Gymnastics - 6 titles since 2014

For Track, you could add Pat Henry from Texas A&M

Thinking of Oklahoma gymnastics, is the men's coach even more accomplished than the women's?

[Le duke]

Russ Rose, Penn State Women’s Volleyball. 109 game winning streak, losing only two sets that entire time. 7x NCAA champs. Had 6 players AA (entire starting lineup) in one season.

John McDonnell at Arkansas for indoor/outdoor Track and Field. Won 19 titles.


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[Wrestleknownothing]

10 minutes ago, Le duke said:

Russ Rose, Penn State Women’s Volleyball. 109 game winning streak, losing only two sets that entire time. 7x NCAA champs. Had 6 players AA (entire starting lineup) in one season.

John McDonnell at Arkansas for indoor/outdoor Track and Field. Won 19 titles.


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I was thinking Russ Rose too, but he retired. And McDonnell passed away a few years ago.

[Le duke]

I was thinking Russ Rose too, but he retired. And McDonnell passed away a few years ago.

I completely missed the “still active” prompt at the end of the thread title.

My bad.


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[ionel]

14 hours ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

Break up the Mithletes

ahh ... pretty sure the mithletes are over on the Non Wrestling Topics thread but sure it'd be good to break em up over there now. 

[ionel]

9 hours ago, PencilNeck said:

Thinking of Oklahoma gymnastics, is the men's coach even more accomplished than the women's?

How many gymnastics teams in D1?

[PencilNeck]

58 minutes ago, ionel said:

How many gymnastics teams in D1?

It's a very small number on the men's side, and women's coaching jobs are (I assume) more prestigious than men's (former Illinois head coach, Justin Spring left a couple of years ago to be a women's assistant at Alabama, for instance).

 

However, men's college gymnastics is closer to the pinnacle of the sport than the women's mostly due to the ages at which athletes in those sports peak. An NCAA men's meet has more future and current national team members than a women's meet would. Also, the men's coaches have to know six events while the women only need to know four 

[PortaJohn]

2 hours ago, ionel said:

ahh ... pretty sure the mithletes are over on the Non Wrestling Topics thread but sure it'd be good to break em up over there now. 

How salty and jealous would @Wrestleknownothing get if we recruited a MIThlete to our forum?

[Wrestleknownothing]

43 minutes ago, PortaJohn said:

How salty and jealous would @Wrestleknownothing get if we recruited a MIThlete to our forum?

Wrestleknownothing loves all the people.