STILLWATER, OK--The National Wrestling Hall of Fame & Museum has announced its Class of 2003, and it includes 39th-year North
Dakota State head coach Bucky Maughan.
Maughan will be inducted as a Distinguished Member of the
National Wrestling Hall of Fame during Honors Weekend on June 7 in
Stillwater, OK, with one other coach and a pair of former wrestlers. He is already a member of the Division II Wrestling Hall of Fame
(1997).
Here are the bios of the 2003 inductees...
Bucky Maughan is a legend in the wrestling circles. He has
guided North Dakota State to four national championships, including
three of the last five. His squads have won 77 percent of their dual
matches and the Bison have been a constant national power. In all,
Maughan’s teams have 30 finishes in the nation’s top ten, and 25 finishes
in the top five. He was recently named one of the Top 10 All-Time
College Wrestling Coaches in a poll taken by Wrestling USA Magazine.
Maughan has contributed to the sport of wrestling in many capacities,
serving as host for the USA Wrestling Junior Tournament and the Cadet
Nationals for nine years. He is a past member of the executive
committee of the National Wrestling Coaches Association and is a
past president of the NCAA Division II Coaches Association. A former
Moorhead State University wrestler, Maughan won the 1962 NAIA
championship. He repeated in 1963, winning the NAIA championship
title and the NCAA Division I championship crown the same
season.
Nate Carr’s wrestling career got off to a good start when he
posted an astonishing 115-7 record at Erie Tech, including a Pennsylvania
state title. In the collegiate ranks Carr proved himself able to
compete on the national level. He was a three-time NCAA champion for Iowa
State University (1981-83) in the 150 pound weight class. Carr also
captured two Big Eight titles and was a two-time participant in the
All-Star Classic in 1981 and 1982. Upon graduating from Iowa State in
1983, he embarked on an outstanding international career. Carr was
victimized by a judge’s error which cost him a chance at advancing to the
gold medal round and he had to settle for a bronze medal at the 1988
Olympics. He was on the 1983 and 1990 World Championship teams.
He >won the 1986 World Cup Championship and the 1986 Pan-American
Championship. Carr was a three-time U.S. National Freestyle
Champion and won the 1990 Goodwill Games Championship. He was recognized
as one of the top assistant coaches in the nation while he was
coaching at West Virginia University.
Kevin Jackson won two Michigan state high school championships
at Lansing Eastern High School. He then attended and wrestled for
Louisiana State University where he was a three time
All-American. When LSU dropped its wrestling program, Jackson transferred to
Iowa State University and was a 1987 NCAA runner-up as a senior.
Jackson’s career took a huge jump after college. He was a 1992 Olympic
Gold Medalist and won the 1991 and 1995 World Championships. He is a
three- time World Cup Champion and a two-time Pan-American Games Champion. Jackson was named the USA Wrestling Freestyler of the Year in
1995, the 1992 Amateur Wrestling News Man of the Year and the 1991
U.S. Olympic Committee Wrestler of the Year. Jackson was previously
inducted into the Michigan Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Iowa
Wrestling Hall of Fame. The latest phase of Kevin’s wrestling
career is as USA Wrestling’s National Team Coach. He serves on the U.S.
Olympic Committee’s minority leader program (FLAME) and the
Native American Sports Council.
Lou Giani stands today as the greatest high school wrestling
coach in the history of New York state and one of the top high school
coaches in the country. During the past season, his team at Huntington
High School won the New York state tournament, making a total of
eight team championships for Coach Giani. New York has 600 high school
wrestling programs, but only one state tournament. His team competes in a
region with 55 other schools. This past season three of his
wrestlers won state titles, increasing his career total to 22 state
champions – an all-time New York state record. Giani’s lifetime coaching
mark in 34 seasons is 388-28-1. Giani has also contributed tremendously
to the sport over the past half-century, developing youth wrestling
programs for two large Long Island towns. He has organized
cultural exchange programs with the Soviet Union and Poland, and provided
the opportunity for many economically disadvantaged youngsters to
wrestle. Giani’s accomplishments as a wrestler are equally impressive. He
did not start wrestling until he was a junior in high school and did
not attend college until later in life. Giani won ten New York
Athletic Club titles and more than 20 other tournament titles across the
country. He won a gold medal at the 1959 Pan-American Games and
respresented the USA on the 1960 Olympic Freestyle team.
