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Biography - Kevin Jackson |
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Jackson was named the National Freestyle Coach for USA Wrestling in January of 2001. During his first year, the U.S. freestyle team won the 2001 World Cup and finished fifth in the 2001 World Championships.
At the 2003 World Championships, Jackson led the U.S. team to a second-place finish led by individual silver medalists Cael Sanderson and Kerry McCoy.
Jackson serves as the full-time professional coach for the national freestyle wrestling program and works to develop freestyle coaches and programs in the United States.
Jackson was named the Freestyle Resident Coach for USA Wrestling in June 1998. In that position, Jackson coached the athletes involved with the U.S. Olympic Training Center freestyle resident program, as well as other freestyle wrestlers who come to Colorado Springs for training. One of the athletes he coached on a daily basis was 2000 Olympic Champion Brandon Slay.
Jackson is considered one of the greatest freestyle wrestlers in U.S. history, winning a gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain at 180.5 pounds, and claiming World Championship gold medals in both 1991 and 1995. Jackson is one of only five U.S. wrestlers to claim three career World-level titles.
He competed on five U.S. World or Olympic teams, also placing fourth in the 1993 World Championships. Jackson boasts three career World Cup titles, and won the Pan American Games two times. Jackson won three U.S. Nationals titles, and placed second five times. He won many major awards, including the 1995 John Smith Award as USA Wrestling Freestyle Wrestler of the Year. He was named Amateur Wrestling News Man of the Year in 1992, and was the USA Wrestling and USOC Wrestler of the Year in 1991. He was a member of the 1993 and 1995 Freestyle World Championship Teams.
Jackson was an NCAA runner-up for Iowa State Univ. in 1987, a squad that also captured the NCAA team championship. Prior to Iowa State, Jackson was a three-time NCAA All-American at Louisiana State Univ. before the program was dropped.
Originally from Lansing, Mich., Jackson won two state high school titles for Lansing Eastern High School and was a Junior National Greco-Roman champion.
Jackson is a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
He and his wife, Robin, have one son, Cole, and three daughters, Trinity, Bailee and Brynn.
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