Career Highlights:
• Led the Ohio State wrestling program to unprecedented heights, capturing the 2015 NCAA National Championship (110.0 points) • Added 23.5 points to that team total (133.5) to place second at the 2018 NCAA Championships • NCAA team runner-ups in 2008, 2009, 2017, 2018 and 2019 • Seven top-3 NCAA Championships team finishes and five consecutive (2015-19) • Top-8 team finishes in 11 of the last 12 NCAAs • Three-time Intermat National Coach of the Year (2008, 2009, 2015) • Two-time NCAA Head Coach of the Year (2009, 2015) • Three-time Big Ten Coach of the Year (2015, 2017, 2018) after capturing three B1G titles in four-year stretch (2015, 2017, 2018) • Coached six different Buckeyes to 12 individual national titles, including four-time champion Logan Stieber and Olympic gold medalist Kyle Snyder (three-time NCAA champ) • Mentored 15 Buckeyes to a total of 23 NCAA Finals appearances • A Buckeye has been crowned Big Ten champion 22 times during the Ryan Era, a number accumulated by 12 different athletes • Corralled 53 All-American honors in 14 seasons leading the Buckeye program • Tutored six Ohio State Male Athlete of the Year winners, including five years straight (2014-18) • Recruited a pair of Big Ten Freshman of the Year honorees • Thirty-eight NWCA Scholar/Academic All-America recognitions by 18 different recipients • Ohio State led the country with seven NWCA Scholar/Academic All-Americans in back-to-back seasons (2018 and 2019) • Since arriving in Columbus, there have been 81 and 22 Academic All-Big Ten and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar selections, respectively (as of 2017-18) • Head coach at Hofstra University from 1995-2006 • Earned seven conference coach of the year awards as the Pride head coach • Two-time New York State Coach of the Year • Led Hofstra to six consecutive conference crowns and a 47-match league unbeaten streak (46-0-1) in dual action during the 2001-06 seasons • Served as an assistant coach at Indiana University (1992-94) • Earned bachelor’s degree in education from Iowa in 1993 • He and his wife, Lynette, have four children; Jordan, Jake, Teague and Mackenzie
