Glenn Anderson came to Cal Poly out of Fountain Valley High School in Southern California where he helped to establish one of the premier wrestling programs in the state. At Fountain Valley, Glenn held the school record for career wins at 89-9-0, topping his high school career with a perfect 34-0 senior season, winning the CIF at 123 lbs.
Arriving at Cal Poly in the fall of 1969, Glenn was a new recruit to one of the nations top wrestling programs. Cal Poly had just set the NCAA College Division record for the most points in the National Championship Tournament, and expectations were very high for the new crop of freshmen. Throughout Glenn's first two seasons, he continued to improve and capped each year with third place finishes in the NCAA College Division at 126 lbs. and a total 51-12-2 record. As a junior, Glenn went up to the 142 pound weight class and was the NCAA College Division National Champion with a season record of 37-5. That year he was awarded Cal Poly's Athlete of the Year Award and the California Collegiate Athletic Association's Athlete of the Year Award.
Entering into his senior season, expectations were very high for Cal Poly and it's outstanding team. Three of the Poly seniors made the East/West All-Star match, held at Leigh University. Cal Poly's team headed into the NCAA National Tournament favored to win its fifth title in a row. Glenn and his teammates answered the call setting a new NCAA record for most points scored in the NCAA College Division Championships and Glenn capping his NCAA College Division career with his second NCAA National Championship and a season record of 34-1. His only loss that season was a forfeit in the NCAA University Championships due to an injury. Glenn's career record at Cal Poly was 72-9-2 in dual meets, 57-9 in tournaments and a career record of 129-18-2. One of Glenn's proudest achievements while wrestling at Cal Poly was his home dual meet record of 38-1-1.
Today Glenn is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for a computer company. He and his wife Mary, also a Cal Poly grad, have four children, David, Kristin, Danielle and Jack. They live in San Clemente, CA. As a family, they enjoy skiing, fishing, going to Mexico and visiting Glenn's favorite wrestling supporter, his mom Mimi. Glenn is very proud to be inducted into the NCAA II Wrestling Hall of Fame with his former Coach Vaughan Hitchcock, who played a very important role in his life. He is also happy to be inducted with former Cal Poly wrestlers Larry Morgan, Ken Bos, and John Woods.
Following an outstanding high school career at Denver's Abraham Lincoln High School, where he was a heavyweight wrestling State Champion, Tom enrolled at Western State College of Colorado in the Fall of 1964. During his time at Western State, Tom established an impressive record as a two-sport athlete, earning seven varsity letters in football and wrestling. As a football player, Tom earned All-Rocky Mountain Conference honors as a defensive tackle for three consecutive years. As a wrestler, Tom distinguished himself in a big way. At a time when the NCAA only allowed a wrestler three years of varsity competition, Tom placed all three years in the NCAA College Division National Tournament. As a sophomore in 1966, Tom placed first, as a junior in 1967, Tom placed second, and as a senior in 1968, Tom placed third. As a junior, Tom also went on to place sixth in the NCAA University Division National Tournament, and as a senior he placed fifth in that tournament. All together, Tom earned All-American honors a total of five times and compiled a career wrestling record of 77-9, with seven of his losses coming in national competitions. Tom competed for the legendary Coach Tracy Borah. Borah was inducted in the NCAA II Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1996.
Tom graduated from Western State College in 1969 with a degree in Physical Education and then earned his master's degree in Secondary Education in 1970. Since graduation, he has taught and coached for the past twenty-eight years, with the last twenty-five years being at Pomona High School in Arvada, Colorado. He has served as the head wrestling coach with a dual meet record of 152-80-3, and has won seven Jefferson County Championships. He has been named the Jefferson County "Wrestling Coach of the Year" six times. And in 1992, he was named the Colorado 6-A Coach of the Year. In 1993, Tom was selected as a Gatorade "Coach Who Cares," and in 1994 and 1996, Tom was Colorado's nomination for National Wrestling Coach of the Year.
Tom and his wife Jean, who was a classmate at Western, have two sons. They live in Broomfield, Colorado and are committed to the care of their two grandchildren. Last Fall, Tom was inducted into Western State Colleges' Mountaineer Sports Hall of Fame.
Ken Bos graduated from Artesia High School in Lakewood, California in 1964. Although not placing in the Southern California championships, Ken was recruited to wrestle at Cerritos Junior College by Coach Hal Simonek, a former Cal Poly wrestler. During Ken's stay, Cerritos placed fourth and second in the California State Wrestling Championships but Ken did not earn All-American honors. Despite Ken's less than auspices background in wrestling, he decided to try and compete "big time." In the fall of 1966, he walked on at Cal Poly University to wrestle for Coach Vaughan Hitchcock. Cal Poly was the defending NCAA College Division National Champion and the most dominant West Coast wrestling team. During a redshirt year in 1966-67, Ken physically matured from a 160 pounder to a 177 pounder. In 1967-68 as a junior, Ken earned All-American honors by placing third in the NCAA College Division Nationals and narrowly missed placing at the University Division Nationals. His Cal Poly team won their first of a record seven consecutive NCAA College Division championships and they also placed sixth at the NCAA University Division Nationals. As a senior in 1968-69, Ken and his Mustang teammates had a dream season. They again won the NCAA College Division championships with six finalists and four champions and then went on to place fifth in the NCAA University Nationals. Ken finished the season as an NCAA College Division champion and a fourth place finisher in the NCAA University Division Nationals. His season record was 29-4 and he was selected as Cal Poly's Most Valuable Wrestler for the season. Ken's two year career record at Cal Poly was 49-11-2.
Ken received his BA degree in Physical Education from Cal Poly in 1969 and then added his MS degree in 1970. His first job was at Santa Barbara High school. Ken spent one year at Santa Barbara and helped start their wrestling program. In 1971, Ken was offered a Junior College position at Hondo College in Whittier, California. For the next eighteen years, he served as a Physical Education teacher and the head wrestling coach. During his coaching tenure at Rio Hondo, his teams had a 169-91-4 dual meet record, won two State Championships and ten conference or regional titles, had nine individual State Champions, and produced thirty four Community College All-Americans. In 1981, Ken was selected to referee the NCAA I National Championships and in 1984, he was selected to be the Operations Manager for the wrestling portion of the Olympic Games. Ken also served several terms as the President of the California Community College Wrestling Coaches Association and was the representative from that body to the National Wrestling Coaches Association. Since stepping down as the head wrestling coach at Rio Hondo College in 1988, he has served as the director of Rio Hondo's Fitness Center where approximately five hundred students per day work out.
Ken and his wife Robbie live in Whittier, California.
Vaughan graduated from Hayward High School in Hayward, California where he was a high school All-American in football and a three-time State Champion in wrestling. Following high school, Vaughan enrolled at Washington State University where he had an outstanding career in both football and wrestling. In football, he was an All-Pacific Coast first-team selection and was named WSU's outstanding player. In wrestling, Vaughan was a four-year letterman with a 97-4 record and won two Pacific Coast Championships.
Following his graduation from Washington State in 1956, Vaughan spent three years coaching at Castro Valley High School and three years at Hayward High School. His high school dual meet record was 74-1 and included winning three Northern California State Championships. In 1962, Vaughan was named the head wrestling coach at Cal Poly University in San Luis Obispo. For the next twenty-three years he lead the Cal Poly Mustangs to almost unparalled success. His dual meet record was 355-112-4 which included a streak of over 150 consecutive victories against California opponents. His teams wrestled in ten NCAA College Division National Championships from 1964-73, and the first NCAA II Nationals in 1974 before switching affiliations and joining the NCAA I in 1975. During that eleven years, his teams won eight National Championships, including seven in a row from 1966-74. Seven of his teams finished among the top ten teams nationally in the NCAA I Nationals. Vaughan's athletes won eighteen NCAA College Division or NCAA II National Championships and earned All-American honors sixty-seven times, an average of six All-Americans in each tournament. They also won two NCAA I National Championships and earned NCAA University Division or NCAA I All-American honors twenty-two times. His 1974 team set a then NCAA II team point record of 131.5 points, and his teams won their eight National Championships by an average margin of 32.1 points.
Vaughan served the NCAA II and the sport of wrestling in many leadership capacities. He was the President of the NCAA College Division Wrestling Coaches Association in 1966-67, and he also served as the host of the 1969 NCAA College Division Nationals. He was a member of the National Wrestling Rules Committee, the National AAU Wrestling Committee and the National Olympic Wrestling Committee. In 1973 he was the team leader and the Freestyle Coach for the USA Team at the World Championships in Tehran, Iran, and in 1976, he was the team leader and the Greco-Roman Coach for the USA Team at the Olympic Games in Montreal. In 1968 and 1973, Vaughan was voted the College Division Coach of the Year. In 1973 he was selected to the Helms Amateur Wrestling Hall of Fame. For over thirty years he conducted the Vaughan Hitchcock Wrestling Camps with approximately 39,000 wrestlers attending. Vaughan retired from coaching in 1986.
Vaughan and his wife Patricia still live in San Luis Obispo. They are the parents of four children, Stephen, Pamela, Terry and Tracy. His sons Stephen and Terry both wrestled for their father at Cal Poly.
Larry won his first USA National Freestyle Championship at 105 pounds at the age of fourteen. At seventeen, Larry won his second USA National Freestyle Championship and represented the USA in the 1969 Junior World Championships. Larry won the Junior World Championships in Boulder, Colorado at 123 pounds and helped the USA Team defeat the Russians for the first time ever.
Larry had an outstanding high school career at East Bakersfield High School wrestling for Coach Leon Tedder. Prior to California having a State Championship, Larry won the 1969 Central California Sectional Championships. He graduated from East Bakersfield with Gold Seals Honors carrying a 3.9 GPA. His record his final two years in high school was 82-2.
While attending Cal Poly at Luis Obispo, Larry placed 2nd (1971), 2nd (1972) and 1st (1973) in the NCAA College Division National Championships. In 1973 Larry was chosen as the tournament's Outstanding Wrestler. In 1972, Larry placed fifth in the NCAA University Division Nationals. His overall college record was 112-21-1. Larry helped his Cal Poly team and Coach Vaughan Hitchcock win four NCAA College Division National Team Titles in his four years of competition.
In 1973, one quarter before graduating from Cal Poly, Larry won the USA Freestyle Trials at 136.5 and placed 4th in the Senior World Championship in Teheran, Iran. Larry defeated the 3rd place Iranian 14-6, but placed 4th on the "black mark system." In 1976, Larry won four out of five of the toughest tournaments in the USA. He won the AAU Nationals in Greco Roman, the US Federation Nationals in Freestyle, US Federation Nationals in Greco Roman, and was the Olympic Trials Freestyle Champion at 149.5 lbs. Larry traveled with the USA Team to Montreal, Canada as an alternate for the 1976 Olympic Games.
Larry and his lovely wife Kim reside in Bakersfield, California. They have been married for 18 years and have three children, Nathan, age 13, McCall, age 11, Jacob, age 8. Larry is a Commercial Real Estate Broker and Kim is a homemaker. The family is very involved in gymnastics, soccer, skiing and wrestling. Larry coaches junior high wrestling and Nathan, Larry's oldest son has decided to follow in his father's footsteps. Nathan won the AAU Freestyle National Wrestling Championships in 1997 and placed 2nd in the 1998 Tulsa Folkstyle Nationals. The family is committed to Christian principles and give thanks to God for all of His many blessings.
John Woods came to Cal Poly out of Redwood High School in Visalia, California. He had an outstanding athletic career at Redwood High School, earning Most Valuable honors in both football and wrestling. But it was in wrestling where he compiled a 68-8 record over three seasons that he earned a scholarship to Cal Poly to compete for Coach Vaughan Hitchcock. In John's four years at Cal Poly, the Mustang's captured three NCAA College Division National Championships and John earned All-American honors three times. Tom first earned All-American honors in 1968 when he placed second at the NCAA College Division Nationals, losing to Mike Gallego of Fresno State in the finals. Gallego also won the NCAA University Division Championship the following week. In 1969, John was the Cal Poly team captain and he earned All-American honors two more times. He won the 167 pound championship at the NCAA College Division Nationals and then proceeded to place second at the NCAA University Nationals, losing a tight 5-4 decision to Iowa State's Jason Smith in the finals. John was also selected to compete in the 1969 East-West All-Star Match.
John graduated from Cal Poly in 1969 with a BS degree in Physical Education and in 1970 he earned his MA degree from Cal Poly in Education. John began his teaching and coaching career at Orange Glen High School in Escondido, CA. His four-year coaching record in wrestling was 45-9-2. In 1973, John accepted his current position at Palomar Community College in San Marcos, CA. John was the head wrestling coach at Palomar for fifteen years compiling a 179-19-3 dual meet record. His teams won the California State Community College Championship five times, and he was selected as the Coach of the Year four times. His athletes produced eleven individual State Championships and fifty-one Community College All-American Awards. Since 1986, John has been the Athletic Director at Palomar. He oversees a program that was selected as number one among California Community College in 1991. John is also a Health and Fitness Presenter.
John is married with four children and lives in Valley Center,
CA.