Gary Hindt will be inducted as the 2018 Lifetime Service Honoree in the Wrestling Hall of Fame on April 21st in Austin, Minnesota at the Holiday Inn Conference Center.
The longest active coach in Minnesota High School Wrestling History has been Gary Hindt of Wabasso. Gary stepped down after the 2017 season after 49 years at the helm. What a fine career he had too! With 807 career wins, Hindt finishes as the #2 “All-Time” winningest coach in Minnesota Wrestling History, and he also ranks #7 “All-Time” in the USA. His overall career coaching record ended at a most impressive 807-214-6.
Gary’s teams were very successful, earning him numerous coaching honors. Among those, he was named Minnesota-Class A “Coach of the Year” two times, in 2004 and 2006. He was also awarded Section “Coach of the Year” honors six times. His four Wabasso and Wabasso/Red Rock Central High School State Tournament
teams placed second in 2004, fourth in 2006, fifth in 2011 and sixth in 2016. Twelve Wabasso teams captured twelve Tomahawk Conference championships and ten teams won District 10 titles.
The longtime veteran coach was recognized for his team’s success with induction into the Dave Bartelma- Minnesota Wrestling “Hall of Fame” in 1994, and he was twice selected as Minnesota-Class A “Coach of the Year” in 2004 and 2006. He coached six individual State Champions and nine State Runner-ups with numerous other State Placewinners and 116 state qualifiers during his coaching career. Three of those
wrestlers (went on to become College All-Americans in Pat and Art Rohlik (Southern University-Springfield, SD) and Jim Louwagie (SW Minnesota State University-Marshall, MN. Bartelma Hall of Famer and former Milacca HS Coach Randy Zimmer (wrestled for Hindt in HS) went on to be a Minnesota Junior College “State Champion.”
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