Baldwin Wallace University Men's Wrestling

Gibbs is competing in his sixth season as the Head Coach at BW in 2016-17.  In his first five seasons, Gibbs has rebuilt the program from the inside out with the 2015-2016 campaign being one of the best in school history. He has a 48-26 career dual match record at BW, including a 43-16 overall mark the past three seasons with three national rankings by the NWCA, and a 9-1 OAC mark the past two years with a conference title. In 2015-2016, Gibbs was named the 2015-2016 Ohio Athletic Conference Coach of the Year and led his Yellow Jacket team to the school's first OAC Title in wrestling since 1973. He led his squad to a school-record 18 dual match victories, an 18-8 overall record, 5-0 record in OAC duals. BW went on to an all-time-best second place finish at the NCAA Division III Mideast Region Tournament and a 31st place showing at the 2016 NCAA Div. III National Tournament. In addition, BW received a NWCA National Team Award for its fine 3.14 team grade point average, and a BW-record seven grapplers were named to the NWCA Scholar All-America team. In 2014-2015, Gibbs led his Yellow Jackets to a then record 17 dual match wins, a 17-5 overall and 4-1 OAC record, a sixth place finish at the Mideast Regional and a 20th-place finish at the Div. III National Tournament. Gunter, Chase and then sophomore Josh Decatur '18 were Div. III national tourney qualifiers, and Gunter (fourth) and Chase (seventh) went on to earn All-America accolades. In addition, four student-athletes were named to the NWCA (National Wrestling Coaches Association) Scholar All-America Team. BW finished 20th in the final NWCA poll. In 2013-2014, Gibbs and the Yellow Jacket program took a major step forward as it had an 8-3 dual match record, sent three wrestlers to the 2014 Div. III national tourney, including Gunter who placed third and earned Div. III All-American status. In addition, three Yellow Jackets, including Gunter, were named to the NWCA Scholar All-America Team. BW finished the season ranked 22nd in the final adidas-Brute/ NWCA Division III poll. It was BW's first Top-25 ranking since 2007. "Our goals are to have the best record in the Ohio Athletic Conference during its dual match season and to qualify as many young men as possible to the NCAA Tournament by competing well at the NCAA Regional Tournament," said Gibbs. "We are very pleased with our progress so far. "Along the way, we, as a coaching staff, want to work with the young men in our program to help them to excell academically and athletically," continued Gibbs. "We work hard every day to build a larger roster with a solid group of veteran leaders who are great role models for our younger team members. We also will work hard to bring to BW another strong recruiting class as we hope to win a second straight OAC title, an NCAA Mideast Regional title and the school's first-ever Div. III national title in wrestling." Gibbs also is no stranger to success. Coach Gibbs came to BW after serving as the head wrestling coach at NCAA Division II the University of North Carolina at Pembroke for five seasons. While at UNC-Pembrooke, he rebuilt the wrestling program into one of the most respected in Division II. He mentored seven NCAA Division II All-Americans and eight student-athletes to the Division II Scholar All-America team. Overall, sixteen of his student-athletes made appearances at the NCAA Division II National Championship Tournament. Gibbs' teams compiled a 51-40 dual meet record and was ranked as high as sixth in the nation and placed sixth at the prestigious Division II Duals. In addition, his team tied for 17th at the 2011 NCAA Division II National Championship tourney. Prior to UNC-Pembrooke, Gibbs served as an assistant coach at Coe College in Iowa for four years and as a graduate assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin at Lacrosse. Both of the teams are traditional powerhouses in NCAA Division III. In two seasons as a collegiate competitor at Coe, Gibbs was a an All-Iowa Conference wrestler and a two-year starter and captain.  Prior to Coe, he attended Iowa Central Community College and was a national qualifier and a NWCA Scholar All-American.  Gibbs received an associate degree from Iowa Central C.C., a Bachelor of Arts degree from Coe and a Master of Science degree in exercise sports science from the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse. Jamie and his wife, Jana, have two sons, Bodey and Kaden, and reside in North Ridgeville.

Taylor '14 is in his first season as assistant coach at Baldwin Wallace in 2014-15. Taylor, a native of Columbus and graduate of Worthington Kilbourne High School, was an NCAA Division III national qualifier a year ago. He with a degree in early childhood education and is  The four-year letterman was an outstanding student-athlete, a Dean's List student and tabbed as a 2013-2014 NWCA (National Wrestling Coaches Association) Scholar All-American. Taylor, a team captain last winter, placed third at the Mideast Regional and advanced to the NCAA Division III National Tournament at 133 pounds. He had a 92-70 overall record, including three 20 plus-win seasons and a career-high 32 victories as a senior. The 2014 John Summa Memorial Tournament champ led BW in takedowns for four straight seasons. He also earned second-team All-OAC honors. Taylor is a fourth/fifth grade teacher at Helen Steiner Elementary school in Lorain.  He resides in Berea. This page was last updated on Octopber 8, 2014

McGrain is an English and social studies teacher at Olmsted Falls High School and served as the head wrestling coach for 27 years (1985-2012).  Prior to his time at Olmsted Falls, he has served as the head wrestling coach at Waynedale High School for three years (1983-1985), an assistant coach at Buckeye High School in Medina for one season (1981-1982) and as an assistant coach Miami of Ohio University for one season (1980-1981). McGrain has a career coaching record of 350-58-3.  He has coached eight individual state champions and is one of three coaches in Ohio wrestling history to coach a state champion in all three divisions.  McGrain has coached 15 state finalists, 49 state place winners, 80 individual state qualifiers, twelve Top-10 team state finishes and 73 Southwestern Conference (SWC) champions.  He was elected to the Ohio Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2006, the Waynedale High School Hall of Fame in 2014 and was named the Ohio Division II Coach of the Year in 1997.  He has also been selected as the Cleveland Plain Dealer Coach-of-the- Year in 1999, the Greater Cleveland Coach-of-the-Year on three occasions and the SWC Coach-of-the-Year, 13 times. As a wrestler himself, McGrain was an NCAA qualifier at Ashland University and a member of the Junior National team.  He was awarded the Ashland Iron Man Award on two occasions.  McGrain also served as team captain for two seasons at Southwestern Michigan Community College and one season at Ashland. He has earned a master of arts from Miami University of Ohio, a bachelor of science from Ashland and an associate degree from Southwestern Michigan College. McGrain is a member of the Ohio Wrestling Coaches Association (OHSWCA) NEO District, Greater Cleveland Wrestling Coaches and Officials Association (GCWCOA), National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA), National High School Wrestling Coaches Association (NHSWCA) and the Greater Cleveland Officials Association (GCOA).  He is an Ohio State certified wrestling official. McGrain and his wife, Tracey, reside in Valley City and the couple have two children, Zach and Chaz.  Zach served as a graduate assistant baseball coach at BW from 2011-12 and Chaz is a 2014 graduate of the University and was a catcher on the Yellow Jacket baseball team (the 2014 BW baseball team advanced to the NCAA Division III College Baseball World Series). View: | Desktop

Curley was also an assistant coach during the 2012-13 season. Curley, a 2011 graduate of Heidelberg University, spent the 2011-2012 season coaching at Stow-Munroe Falls High School. While at Heidelberg, he majored in political science and minored in German. Curley was a four-year letterman and a two-time Ohio Athletic Conference champion on a team that won four straight OAC Tournament titles (2007-2008 through 2010-11) and back-to-back OAC regular season titles (2008-2009 and 2009-2010). He was a three-time NCAA Division III national tournament qualifier and received NWCA (National Wrestling Coaches Association) All-America Scholar honors in 2010-11. In addition, Curley ranks fourth all-time on Heidelberg's all-time victory list with 104 and is 12th all-time for single-season victories. He also participated in track and threw the javelin on the 2009-2010 OAC Championship team. Curley works for the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court system and he resides in North Olmsted. This pages was last updated on October 8, 2014