Kevin Lake's decision to attend Manchester as a student-athlete hinged on two things -- his sister and his father. While Lake considered himself an average wrestler, the legacy of his football-playing father and athletic prowess of his twin sister led Lake to wrestle at the Indiana school. On Episode 26 of The Ice Hour, Lake, now the head wrestling coach at his alma mater, explains his journey coaching all around the country at the Division I, Division III and private sector led him back...

Loras coach T.J. Miller knows Division III and he knows the Iowa Conference. The three-time All-American and 2007 NCAA Division III champion has his Loras College Duhawks ranked fifth in the country and unbeaten on the season. On Episode 26 of The Ice Hour, Miller will talk about his wrestling career at Wartburg, why he left Iowa to coach high school in Louisiana and how he ended up back in Division III. Miller is the son of longtime Wartburg head coach Jim Miller. The younger Miller...

Baldwin Wallace University head wrestling coach Jamie Gibbs wrestled in Division III as an athlete and made his way back after spending time as a Division II head coach. On Episode 24 of The Ice Hour, Gibbs talks about his role in creating a winner at Baldwin Wallace, the school's role in hosting the Division III Championships this year in Cleveland and how Northeast Ohio will be a perfect setting for the NCAA Division I and Division III Championships. Baldwin Wallace set a school record...

Nathan Shearer, the head wrestling coach at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia joins The Ice Hour for Episode 23 to talk about his program and the recent NCAA Division III Wrestling regional realignment. Shearer wrestled at Ohio Northern and had a stint as the head coach at Heidelberg before landing at W&L. Now the chair of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Committee, Shearer also breaks down the regional alignment, the committee's role and what changes we can expect...

Entering his second season as the head wrestling coach at Alma College in Alma, Michigan, Jeremiah Tobias has been there and done that. He'll talk about it on Episode 22 of The Ice Hour. As an athlete, Tobias had high aspirations coming out of Manchester High School in Michigan as a four-time state champion. He went to the University of Michigan and spent his time fighting for time in the starting lineup, but opportunities to represent the Maize and Blue beyond open tournaments and an...

TCNJ head coach Joe Galante is next up on The Ice Hour where he gets to talk about the impact of this program's namesake, Dave Icenhower. Episode 21 visits with Galante to talk about his journey from Ocean City, New Jersey, to Rider and then to TCNJ where he finished his competitive career as a two-time Division III All-American and a 2007 Division III finalist. TCNJ's wrestling tradition goes back over four decades as the Lions have produced at least one All-American every year since...

After 48 years, the only wrestling coach King's College has ever known, Ned McGinley, announced his retirement in January. On Episode 20 of The Ice Hour, coach McGinley recaps what led him across town to the small Division III school and what's kept him motivated over the years. Coach McGinley also talks about some of his peers, how he and the school measure success and what it was like to have an athlete win an individual NCAA championship. It's hard to encapsulate 48 years in 45...

In 1997, Lonnie Morris started a wrestling program just a few miles from where he wrestled collegiately. With a 23-1 record in duals this season, Johnson & Wales has gone from nothing to the nation's third-ranked Division III wrestling program, all under the watchful eye of Coach Morris. On Episode 19 of The Ice Hour, Morris talks about the foundation of the program from its start, to now the schools' 20th year with wrestling and 300 dual meet wins. It's not just a cooking school,...

On February 2, Augsburg College's Si Melby Hall will host the annual Battle of the Burgs, a wrestling dual between the host Auggies and rival Wartburg. With Augsburg and Wartburg winning every NCAA Division III championship since 1995, the two programs have set a standard across the sport of wrestling, not just Division III. On Episode 18 of The Ice Hour, we'll talk with the architects of each of the programs -- Augsburg AD and former coach Jeff Swenson and retired Wartburg coach Jim...

Episode 17 of The Ice Hour heads to Springfield, Mass., where we'll talk with Springfield College head wrestling coach Jason Holder. The Pride have a long tradition of wrestling success, which dates back over 100 years. As one of the oldest wrestling programs in the nation and believed to be the oldest current Division III program, Springfield just set another milestone, 1,000 all-time dual meet victories. We'll talk with Holder, who is just the third coach in the past 60 years. Doug...

A two-time NCAA Division III champion and member of the Division III Wrestling Hall of Fame, Duane Bastress has seen his share of success on the mat. Now in his fourth year as the head coach of his alma mater York College in Pennsylvania, Bastress is finally ready to have a season that's consistent. On Episode 16 of The Ice Hour, we'll visit with Bastress and talk about the hurdles created in his first year by a nationally publicized hazing scandal that shut down the program for a few...

We get a fun cross-section of coaches on Episode 15 of The Ice Hour: A Division III Wrestling Podcast presented by MyHouse Sports Gear. We're on location at the Auggie-Adidas Open at Augsburg College in Minneapolis where we catch up with Eric Van Kley, the head wrestling coach at Central College, UW-Eau Claire head coach Tim Fader and Luther College head coach Dave Mitchell. Van Kley, who also serves as an administrator at Central, talks about the growth of Division III wrestling, Fader...

Episode 14 of The Ice Hour, a Division III wrestling podcast, is with two of the newest coaches in Division III, Scott Legacy at Castleton University and Tommy Owen at Averett University. Legacy is a longtime high school coach in Vermont, leading Mt. Anthony Union to 28 consecutive state championships. He was hired as the head wrestling coach at Castleton last winter and the Spartans are heading into their first season as an active Division III squad. Owen, most recently an assistant...

One topic that's got Division III wrestling coaches in a tizzy is the 2016-17 realignment situation. Well, realignment is a term used loosely as there was only minimal changes in the six-region qualification system with a big point of contention centering around the West Region, with only 11 active teams. On Episode 13 of The Ice Hour, we'll talk with Brian Anderson, the head wrestling coach at Wabash, Bryan Brunk, the head wrestling coach at Messiah and Tony Valek, assistant wrestling...

With the Division III wrestling championships heading back to La Crosse, Wisconsin for the 2016-17 season, it makes sense that The Ice Hour talks with UW-La Crosse head coach Dave Malecek. Malecek is in his 11th year in La Crosse and was an NCAA Division I All-American in 1994 for the University of Northern Iowa. He's coached numerous All-Americans and Division III champions during his tenure. Malecek talks about the nuances of his name, hosting the Division III championships again at...

On Episode 11 of The Ice Hour, a Division III wrestling podcast, we'll catch up with the new head wrestling coach at the University of the Ozarks, LeRoy Gardner. A three-time All-American at Wartburg and a 2003 NCAA Division III champion at heavyweight, Gardner previously coached at the U.S. Naval Academy Prep School in Rhode Island and the club program at the University of Houston-Downtown. Garnder's backstory involves discovering wrestling late, never placing at the Minnesota state...

Episode 10 of The Ice Hour talks with 2013 Elmhurst graduate and Division III champion. Rau's not exactly a rags-to-riches story, but only a one-time state qualifier in Illinois in high school, he moved on to nearby Elmhurst College, where he earned three All-American medals including a national championship. Just one year removed from college, Rau made the U.S. World Team in Greco-Roman and recently won the U.S. Olympic Team Trials at 98kg. Unfortunately, Rau missed out on qualifying for...

Episode 9 of The Ice Hour, a Division III wrestling podcast visits with Messiah College head wrestling coach Bryan Brunk. Brunk was voted the NWCA Division III Coach of the Year and the D3wrestle.com Coach of the Year after leading the Falcons to a second-place finish at the 2016 NCAA Division III Championships in Cedar Rapids. Messiah picked up two more program-bests, two champions for the first time in school history and six All-Americans for the first time. Brunk talks about the...

On Episode 8 of The Ice Hour, we'll visit with Jim Brown, the founder and mind behind Wrestling For Live, a non-profit organization with numerous goals about getting kids to participate and become fans of wrestling. Brown, a resident of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, home of the 2016 NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships, has helped thousands of kids attend wrestling matches around the country. Find out how you can contribute to his cause at WrestlingForLife.org. Our second guest is...

Wartburg head wrestling coach Eric Keller has his team rolling. The top-ranked Knights are unbeaten and fresh off a sixth-straight NWCA National Duals championships. On Episode 7 of The Ice Hour, we'll talk with Keller about his path to Division III, the rivalry with Augsburg and how he's been able to recruit the right wrestlers to the program. Keller will also talk about the regional configuration for qualifying for the national championships, Cedar Rapids as a host, the shades of Chris...

Cornell College's Dick Simmons has become quite used to running and coordinating wrestling tournaments. On Episode 6 of The Ice Hour, Simmons previews what fans should expect for the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships that will be coming to Cedar Rapids, Iowa on March 11-12. Simmons, currently the Associate Director of Athletics and Compliance at Cornell, will also be inducted into the Division III Wrestling Hall of Fame the same weekend. We'll talk with Simmons about his rise from...

Wabash junior Riley Lefever enters his third year of college wrestling with a bit of a target on him. Already a two-time Division III champion, Lefever had a recent win over Division I All-American Kenny Courts of Ohio State. On Episode 5 of The Ice Hour, we'll talk with Lefever and Erik Wince, the head wrestling coach at the first-year program at Greensboro College in North Carolina. Lefever breaks down why he picked Wabash to wrestle with his two older brothers, while Wince talks...

Jim Gruenwald wrestled in the Olympics twice. Andy Vogel's been an assistant coach, head coach as well as an Associate Athletics Director. Both will join Episode 4 of the Ice Hour, a Division III Wrestling Podcast. Gruenwald competed for coach Ben Peterson at Maranatha Baptist while Vogel wrestled at Messiah. Now the head coach at Wheaton College in Illinois, Gruenwald's entering his seventh year of rebuilding the program which as a proud wrestling tradition and hosts one of the monster...

On Episode 3 of The Ice Hour, we'll visit with former Division III athlete and coach Mike Fusilli, My House Sports Gear's Pete Rogers, a former Division III wrestling coach and the new head wrestling coach at Case Western Reserve, Danny Song. Our first segment talks with Fusilli and Rogers, both of whom coached at the Division III level. Fusilli competed at Ithaca and was a three-time All-American and a Division III champion, while Rogers competed in Division I at Ohio State and coached at...