is a non-profit organization committed to providing World Class training opportunities and funding to wrestlers that have high aspirations and are dedicated to competing and achieving success at the National and International level. We are sanctioned by USA Wrestling as a Regional Olympic Training Facility.
The Tiger Style Wrestling Olympic Facility is located at the University of Missouri – Columbia in the Hearnes Center 4th floor. We are comprised of a community of wrestling fans, supporters, and athletes, from across the country that give of their time, talents, and financial resources fueling the Olympic Dream.
Helping wrestlers from the state of Missouri compete on a national and international level.
Some former Tiger Style Wrestlers the RTC has helped fund in the past are: J 'den Cox, Alan Waters, Le’Roy Barnes, Mike Larson, Todd Schavrien, Ben Askren, Max Askren, Nick Marable and Dom Bradley.
Current Tiger Style wrestlers the RTC is funding are: Dom Bradley, Brock Mauller, Jarrett Jacques, Aeoden Sinclair, and Keegan O'toole.
Creating sponsorship opportunities to fulfill the vision to have an athlete training in MO at each international weight class
Once we have received your completed Takedown Club application, your name will be put on a list to send you an NCAA Ticket Order Form in the fall. We will also include our fan hotel information and link for you to reserve your rooms.
Mizzou Head Wrestling Coach Brian Smith has added one of the nation's top rising young coaches to his staff as Kendric Maple has joined the program as an assistant coach, subject to the completion of a successful background check per University policy, announced today by Mizzou Wrestling. Maple, a three-time All-American and 2013 NCAA Champion, comes to Mizzou after a successful two-year coaching stint at Nebraska where he coached five All-Americans and one NCAA Champion. Maple takes over the position that was left vacated by the departure of Joe Johnston, who took an associate head coaching job at Air Force earlier this month.
"We're excited to welcome Kendric to Tiger Style and his success both as a coach and on the mat embody what Tiger Style is all about," head coach Brian Smith said. "Kendric is a US Freestyle champion and won an NCAA Title at Oklahoma, so he understands what it takes to win at the highest levels of our sport, and I know he can serve as a great teacher and mentor to our wrestlers. I expect him to have a profound impact on our team and I can't wait for him to get started in the room with us."
"My family and I are very excited to have this opportunity to work with such a great program," Maple said. "Coach Smith has proven his ability to build student-athletes, both on and off the mat. I will greatly miss the staff and student-athletes at Nebraska, but I am looking forward to being able to work with this amazing program."
Maple spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach at Nebraska, helping the Huskers to a ninth-place finish at the 2017-18 NCAA Championships and a 10th place finish last season. In 2017-18, he guided Chad Red Jr. to All-America honors at 141 pounds, as Red became NU's first All-American at that weight since 2004. Red again earned All-American honors at last year's NCAA Championships. Maple also helped Tyler Berger and Taylor Venz to All-America honors in 2018. At the 2019 NCAA Championships, he helped coached Berger to a second-place nod at 157 pounds as well.
Prior to joining the Nebraska staff, Maple spent one year at Purdue as an assistant coach, where he helped lead three Boilermakers to the 2017 NCAA Championships. While there, he worked alongside new Mizzou Associate Head Coach Tyrel Todd, who joined Mizzou earlier this summer after a very successful career at Purdue.
Maple's coaching career began at his alma mater, Oklahoma, where he was a volunteer assistant from 2014-16. During his two seasons on staff, Maple coached former teammate Cody Brewer to the 133-pound title at the 2015 NCAA Championships. In 2016, Maple helped Brewer claim his fourth All-America honor with a third-place finish at 133 pounds at the NCAA Championships. Maple also played a key role in Ryan Millhof's 2016 Big 12 title run and All-America finish at 125 pounds.
Maple was one of the most successful wrestlers in OU history, as he won three All-America awards and posted a 127-25 (.836) career record from 2010-14. His 127 wins rank sixth all-time at Oklahoma.
Maple concluded his 2012-13 season by claiming the 141-pound NCAA title and finishing a perfect 31-0. The following year, after moving to 149 pounds, Maple became OU's 25th three-time All-American after placing eighth at the NCAA Championships. He took fourth in 141 pounds in 2012.
Off the mat, Maple was named to the Capital One Academic All-America Division I At-Large Team in 2014. Additionally, he was a three-time NWCA All-Academic Team member (2012, 2013, 2014), a two-time first-team Academic All-Big 12 honoree (2013, 2014) and a second-team Academic All-Big 12 selection (2012). He also won the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, as well as the Big 12 Dr. Prentice Gautt Postgraduate Scholarship.
Maple continued to see success in freestyle wrestling following the completion of his college career. He was a member of the United States team in 2018 that won the UWW Freestyle World Cup for the first time since 2003. Maple is a two-time U.S. Freestyle Open Men's finalist (61 kg), winning the title in April 2017. He also won the 61 kg title at the 2017 Medved International. Maple was a finalist in the 61 kg at the 2017 U.S. Freestyle World Team Trials. He was the runner-up at the 2015 U.S. Open, as he qualified for the U.S. Freestyle World Team Trials, where he earned a fourth-place finish.
Originally from Wichita, Kan., Maple earned his bachelor's degree from Oklahoma in health and exercise science in May 2013. He received his master's degree in adult and higher education, with an emphasis in intercollegiate athletic administration from OU in May 2015. Maple and his wife, Jordin, have two sons, Kiner and Kyro.
Hagerty joins the Tigers program after serving as both the men's and women's wrestling head coach at William Jewell. Hagerty joined Jewell in Aug. 2020 and was tasked with starting a women's program while revitalizing the men's program after a 27-year hiatus.
"I am excited to announce Keenan Hagerty will be joining our program as the new Director of Operations," Smith said. "Keenan grew up in Missouri, learning to wrestle while competing and coaching. Having to manage many responsibilities at William Jewell as the men's and women's head coach has prepared him for his position here as the director of operations and his background will add to our success on and off the mat. Please welcome him to the Tiger Style family!"
During Hagerty's head coaching stint, he showed his mettle as a recruiter, bringing over 30 new student-athletes into the wrestling programs. Hagerty led the women's program its first-ever national ranking of No. 15 while Emalie Olson earned the first individual national ranking at No. 8 in the 116-pound class. Five student-athletes from the women's program advanced to the NCWWC National Championships and freshman Sarina Bertram was tabbed as the William Jewell Women's Newcomer of the Year honors.
"I am extremely excited to join Coach Smith and the rest of the Tiger Style wrestling staff," Hagerty said. "Mizzou Wrestling is one of the most respected NCAA Division I programs in the nation. I am looking forward to the opportunity to contribute in any way possible. Although it was a very tough decision to leave the program we were building at William Jewell. I am confident that this program is in great hands with the leadership and commitment of both the College and athletic department at Jewell. The position as director of operations at Mizzou provides a unique opportunity for me to assist with a program that has the vision of a national championship."
Prior to his stint with the Cardinals, Hagerty spent four years as the top assistant at Maryville University. During that time, he has helped Maryville to 19 All-Great Lakes Valley Conference selections, 15 NCAA-II national qualifiers, seven All-Americans and one national champion.
Hagerty spent his own collegiate career at Maryville and his list of accomplishments is long. He compiled a career record of 125-28, was a four-time national qualifier and three time All-American. He opened his career in 2012 with a 33-7 mark and finished as the national runner-up at 149. Following that season, he was named the Maryville University Male Athlete of the Year and Newcomer of the Year. Throughout his career he set school records for wins in a season (42) and career (125), was a three-time Super Regional finalist, winning the title in 2013 and a NWCA All-Academic selection.
Although, he competed collegiately across the state, Hagerty's wrestling roots run deep in Kansas City. He attended Blue Springs High School where he won a state championship under his father, Mike, a 2016 inductee into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Hagerty earned his bachelor's degree in business administration from Maryville in 2016.
Beginning his career as Missouri's seventh Head Wrestling Coach, Brian Smith sat down with his team and made a list of goals that he hoped would help the 1998 squad and future Tiger teams. Over the past 20 years, Smith and the many men that have come through the Mizzou Wrestling program have slowly but surely checked items off that original list. Individual Big 12 and MAC Conference Champions, improved grade-point averages, record-setting attendances, a No. 1 national ranking and Missouri's first-ever NCAA National Champion in wrestling were all on Smith's "to-do" list. Smith has checked off each task on his list, and he continues to take the program to unreached heights. His unique “Tiger Style” training program has molded today's team into a national powerhouse that continues to pursue the program's first team NCAA title.
Since being introduced as Missouri's Head Wrestling Coach May 5, 1998, Smith has demanded nothing but the best from himself, his coaches and his wrestlers. Owning 17 consecutive seasons with a dual record at or above .500, beginning with the 2001-02 season, Smith has coached 25 All-Americans to 51 top-eight performances and five Tigers to eight national championships.
The winningest coach in program history, Smith has compiled a 267-93-3 record at Missouri over his 20 season tenure. On Nov. 15, 2014 in the team’s season opener, Smith and his Tigers claimed a 54-0 victory over Truman State and gave the legendary coach his 200th career win at Mizzou. Smith’s 100th career victory came on Dec. 9, 2006 in Mount Pleasant, Mich., as the team bested then-No. 11 Central Michigan, 31-9. The win made Smith just the second Tiger wrestling coach to reach the 100-win plateau.
With a .736 career winning percentage, Smith holds the highest winning percentage in Mizzou wrestling history. Smith earned six consecutive conference Coach of the Year honors from 2012-17, including five straight awards by the MAC league office. Additionally, Smith has been honored as the top wrestling coach in the NCAA twice in his career, first being named the Dan Gable Coach of the Year by W.I.N. Magazine in 2007, then Smith was named the National Wrestling Coaches Association Coach of the Year in 2017.
Located on the fourth floor of the Hearnes Center, the original wrestling facility was first used in 1972 by then head coach Hap Whitney and his roster of Mizzou wrestlers.
With one-and-a-half competition circles, the facility held one of the largest mat areas in the nation. Three head coaches and 32 years later, the Missouri wrestling team moved into its current home, a state-of-the-art facility, also located on the fourth floor of the Hearnes Center.
With the renovated facilities debut in the fall of 2004, the once Mizzou basketball practice gymnasium now is the home of three full-size competition circles (60x104 ft. of mat area), 46 stadium seats and a cardiovascular workout area. Current Tigers wrestling head coach Brian Smith and his team are once again at home in the largest facility in the NCAA.
Missouri's old wrestling room which is now a weight room inside Hearnes, combined with a players lounge, three coaches' offices and a video room have given the Tigers a workout area unlike any other in the country.
After several years of hosting duals in the Hearnes Fieldhouse, the Tigers wrestling squad now hosts all events, excluding the Missouri Open, on the main competition floor of the Hearnes Center. Over the past 30 plus years, attendance to Missouri's wrestling events has continued to grow, with the largest crowd (2,128) recorded on Jan. 22, 2006 in Missouri's televised dual against No. 1 Oklahoma State.
The Missouri Open, an annual event drawing teams from across the Midwest, continues to run in the Hearnes Fieldhouse. Attracting nearly 600 wrestlers from 20 teams, the all-day event pits several of the nation's best wrestlers against one another.
Since 1973 the University of Missouri has hosted three Big Eight Championships (1973, 1977 and 1991) and four Big 12 Championships (1997, 2003, 2007, and 2012). After the program's move to the Mid-American Conference, the Tigers hosted the MAC Wrestling Championship in 2015.
