Coaching staff

Doug Reese

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Head Wrestling Coach

Hometown: Geneva, IL/Escanaba, MI

Northern Michigan University

Doug Reese joined Concordia University as the head wrestling coach in January of 2009.  Reese has the challenge of reviving an intercollegiate wrestling program that hasn't put a wrestler on the mat since the mid-1970s.

In just two short years, Reese has led Concordia University to a third place finish in the Great Plains Athletic Conference, including five All-GPAC selections, and sent ten wrestlers to the NAIA National Wrestling Championships.  Two Bulldog wrestlers earned earned Academic All-American honors from the National Wrestling Coaches Association.

Reese comes to Concordia University by the way of Orange Lutheran High School in Orange, Calif.  Prior to coaching at Orange Lutheran, Reese worked at the U.S. Olympic Education Center in Marquette, Mich. as Director of Media and Marketing.  Reese is a former world silver medalist in freestyle wrestling and a U.S. national champion in both freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling.

Reese's 27 years of collegiate coaching experience includes stints at Wheaton College (Ill.), Michigan Technological University, University of Minnesota-Morris, and King College (Tenn.).  In 1994, Reese started the first women's collegiate wrestling program in North America at the University of Minnesota-Morris and was recognized with the Atalanta Award from Sports Management magazine for promoting gender equity in sport.

Reese is a USA Wrestling Gold certified coach and became a member of the USA Wrestling national coaching staff in 1995.  Reese has coached elite U.S. athletes in 18 countries and in five World Championships and in the Pan-American Championships. 

Reese is a frequent clinician for the International Olympic Committee, teaching international wrestling coaches through the Olympic Solidary grants.  Reese has been a presenter at both the National Wrestling Coaches Association national convention and at USA Wrestlling's Silver Coaches College.

Reese has been a participant in the National Wrestling Coaches CEO Leadership Academy in the summer of 2011.  The Academy prepares collegiate coaches on the important topics such as fundraising, marketing, ethics, improving graduation rates, communication, and leadership.  Concepts unique to faith-based colleges were also taught by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes wrestling ministry.

For eight years Reese served on the USA Wrestling Board of Directors representing the NAIA.  He was a member of the Steering Committee, Coaches Council, Sports Science, and International Exchange Committee.  Reese also served as Chair of the Women's Wrestling Committee.

In his previous tenure in the NAIA, Coach Reese served as 2nd Vice President of the NAIA Wrestling Coaches Association and served on the Honors and Award Committee and was Chair of the International Exchange Committee.

The former world silver-medalist has tutored 143 All-Americans at the NCAA, NAIA, and in USA Wrestling's Senior, University, and FILA-Junior levels.  Thirty-five of his wrestlers have earned Academic All-America honors in the NCAA and NAIA. 

Reese has coached wrestlers to 37 world medals in the Olympics, Senior, University, and at the FILA-Junior world championships as well as placing 60 of his athletes on U.S. World teams.  In addition the teams he has coached have won seven national championships and have placed second in the nation on two other ocassions.

Coach Reese is a frequent speaker at Fellowship of Christian Athlete events and is a popular wrestling clinician.  Reese has also been involved with Athletes In Action, having coached AIA wrestling mission trips in Russia, Honduras, Guatemala and Panama.

Reese is also a published author with more than 30 articles on training athletes for competition.  He penned the popular sports devotional Take it to the Next Level, Performance Principles for Life and was a contributing editor to the wrestling classic Wrestle Your Perfect Match and the New Testament sports Bible nt:sport, the Word of God to the World of Sports Bible.

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Also see.......

• Read Coach Reese's devotional, "Thankful for the Gift" at CBN.com
• Read Coach Reese's article in Wrestling USA Magazine, "Coach 'em for Life".
• Listen to Coach Reese's interview on FCA's Sharing the Victory Radio. Radio program No. 78.

Contact Coach Reese

• 402-643-7238 • doug.reese@cune.edu