Brian Smith

Biography

Brian Smith Career 1986-90 Michigan State Wrestler 1991-92 Western HS (Fla.) Head Coach 1992-97 Cornell Assistant Coach 1997-98 Syracuse Head Coach 1998- Missouri Head Coach Wrestling Championships • Three Big 12 Championships • Nine MAC Championships • Placed third at NCAA Tournament 2006-07 • Placed fourth at NCAA Tournament 2014-15 • 197 Individual NCAA Championship Qualifiers Individual Awards • 10 Individual National Championships • 70 NCAA All-Americans • Two Dan Hodge Award Winners • 24 Big 12 Champions • 40 MAC Champions • Seven Conference Wrestlers of the Year • 2007 Dan Gable Coach of the Year • 2017 NWCA Coach of the Year • Three-time Big 12 Coach of the Year • Five-time MAC Coach of the Year Academic Awards • 77 Academic All-Big 12 Honorees • 28 Academic All-MAC Honorees • Five Academic All-Americans • 70 NWCA Scholar All-Americans In his 27th season as the Missouri Head Wrestling Coach, Brian Smith and his "Tiger Style" culture have molded the program into a national powerhouse that continues to pursue NCAA titles. AT THE HELM Hired on May 5, 1998, Smith sat down with his team and made a list of goals he hoped would help the 1998-99 squad and future Tigers. The team earned one national qualifier that season, Jeff Urban, but it was the ground floor of what was to be built in the years to come—the birth of Tiger Style. Since taking over, Smith has coached 64 individual conference champions, 192 NCAA qualifiers, 69 All-American performances and six wrestlers to 10 n

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