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Coach Lanny Bryant

Head Wrestling Coach, Big Sky High School

 

Experience

1987–1989      Los Angles Church Loan     Santa Ana, CA
Executive Director of Los Angles Church Loan Corporation

 

 1984–1987      Montana State University             Bozeman, MT
Assistant Athletic Director / Head Wrestling Coach

 

1972–1984      Missoula County High School             Missoula, MT
Teacher of Biological Science / Head Wrestling Coach.

 

1970–1972    Western Washington State College    Bellingham, WA
Teacher of Physical Education / Head Wrestling Coach.

 

 1962–1970     Worland School District                       Worland, WY
Teacher of Biological Science / Head Wrestling Coach

 

1965 to 2009 Wrestling USA Magazine Worland, WY / Missoula, MT Editor / Owner

 

 

Education

1966–1969         University of Wyoming                      Laramie, WY
45 Hours             Biological Science.

1963-1965           University of Northern Colorado        Greeley, CO 
Master of Arts.  Health Education

1958-1962           University of Northern Colorado        Greeley, CO
Bachelor of Arts. Health Education / Biological Science

1955-1957         Palmer High School             Colorado Springs, CO
High School Diploma

 

 

Athletic Experience

High School

Half back in Football, Colorado State Champions 1957
Third in Colorado State Championships 1955  and 1957
Wrestling Team Captain in 1957

College

Team Captian 1962
Rocky Mt Conference Champion 1960-61-62
AAU Champion 1959-60-61
AAU Outstanding Wrestler Award 1959
College Record 66-6

 

Coaching

Team won 241, lost 47 in dual meets in twenty years
Coached 35 Individual State Champions, 111 State Placers
Teams have won State High School Championships in Wyoming and Montana
Coached nine High School Teams to unbeaten dual meet seasons
Coached many Teams who won tournament Championships

 

Coached Montana State first Big Sky Conference Outstanding Wrestler
Coached one NCAA Division I All-American
Coached three NAIA All-American

 

Coaching National Teams

 

Coach –  Montana High School Cultural team to Japan
Coach –  Wyoming High School Cultural team to Japan
National Coach – USA Junior World Team
National Coach – USA Junior Team to Russia
National Coach – USA Junior Team to Poland
National Team Leader – USA World-Schoolboy Team, Stockholm, Sweden
National Team Leader – USA World-Schoolboy Team, Mexico City, Mexico

 

National Awards

AAU Wresting Hall of Fame 2007
National Wrestling Hall of Fame’s Order of Merit member for the class of 2003

 

National Wrestling Coaches Association Wrestling Coach of the Year
Montana Coaches Association Coach of the Year
National Media Association Publication of the Year

 

Started and Organized

The Wyoming AAU Association
The Wyoming Cultural Exchange Program
The Junior Olympic Program in Wyoming
The Montana Cultural Exchange Program
The 1983 World-Schoolboy Championships held in Missoula, MT (Thirteen foreign countries competed)

The Annual National High School Dream Team Classic Wrestling Dual Meet Championships (the best high school wrestlers in the USA vs the best high school wrestlers in the state each year) started in 1998

Wrestling USA Magazine started in 1965
Wrestlingusa.com started in 1998