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Phone: 712-274-5282
E-Mail: jager@morningside.edu
Tim Jager has a 66-35-2 record for a .650 winning percentage in seven seasons as the Mustangs' head coach. Jager guided the Mustangs to a 9-7 record in 2004-05 in the college's first season of varsity competition since the program had previously been disbanded in 1979. He followed that effort with records of 9-4 in 2005-06, 10-6 in 2006-07, 12-7 in 2007-08, 9-6 in 2008-09, 7-2-1 in 2009-10, and 10-3-1 this past season.
Jager, the current president of the NAIA Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA), was named the 2011 GPAC and NAIA North Region Coach of the Year after he guided the Mustangs to their first-ever GPAC and NAIA North Region Championships. He was also named the GPAC Coach of the Year in 2008 after he guided the Mustangs to a second place finish at the 2008 GPAC Championships and a 12-7 regular season dual record.
He was named the 2011 NAIA recipient of the NWCA's Bob Bubb Coaching Excellence Award presented in each division of college wrestling to a coach who epitomizes the qualities and characteristics of a role model and mentor for developing student-athletes.
Jager coached the first national champion in Morningside history during the 2006-07 campaign when Jake Stevenson defeated No. 1-ranked Joffre Lander of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 3-1 in the 184 lb. title bout at the NAIA Championships.
Jager has coached 12 NAIA All-Americans over the past seven seasons, including Stevenson, who was a four-time All-American. Morningside had three wrestlers earn All-America honors in both 2008 and 2011. Under Jager, the Mustangs received the NAIA Buffalo Funds Five Star Champions of Character Award in 2006, 2008, and 2010.
Before coming to Morningside, Jager had been an
assistant coach at Buena Vista University for three years, where he served under legendary coach Al Baxter,
a 1969 Morningside graduate and a member of Morningside's
M-Club Hall of Fame. Buena Vista, a perennial NCAA Division
III national power, produced nine All-Americans, one national champion, and a pair
of Top 10 finishes in the team standings at the national tournament
during Jager's three years with the Beavers.
Jager was the head
wrestling coach at George-Little Rock High School during the
1999-2000 academic year. He coached two district qualifiers
and had three wrestlers earn All-Siouxland Conference honors
during his one season with the team.
His coaching experience
began at Buena Vista as a student assistant wrestling coach
during the 1995-96 season.
Jager is a 1996
graduate of Buena Vista, where he was a three-year letterwinner
and a two-time national tournament qualifier. He was the Iowa
Intercollegiate Conference 167 lb. runner-up in 1994.
Jager enjoyed an
outstanding prep career when he attended George-Little Rock
High School, where he was a four-year letterwinner and two-time
placewinner at the state tournament. He posted a 36-1 record
as a senior, losing only to Joe Kielman of Clarksville-Allison-Bristow
in the 1992 Class 1A 160 lb. state final. Jager had a 36-4
record as a junior and placed sixth in the Class 1A 145 lb.
division of the state tournament.
Assistant Coach Cole Wilson
 Cole Wilson is in his first season as the Mustangs' assistant coach.
Wilson, a native of Oakland, Iowa, enjoyed an outstanding career as a Mustang wrestler and earned NAIA All-America honors as a senior when he placed fourth in the 197 lb. division at the NAIA National Tournament. He had a 24-14 record as a senior.
He earned NAIA honorable mention All-America status as a junior with an eighth place finish at the national tournament.
Wilson won 80 matches during his Morningside career.
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