Mike Moyer has been the Executive Director of the National Wrestling Coaches Association since 1999.
Under his leadership, NWCA membership has grown from 1,700 to more than 10,000 and the organization has established over 350 new intercollegiate men’s and women’s wrestling programs since 2000. In the last decade. Moyer established the NWCA CEO Leadership Program that has trained over 900 college coaches and more than 2,000 high school coaches on best practices for sustaining wrestling programs. He has also overseen and facilitated fundraising initiatives that helped establish several Division I men’s and women’s programs, creating hundreds of coaching opportunities for men and women.
Moyer has spearheaded establishing new chapters for Wrestlers In Business Network, an organization that connects high school and college wrestlers with internships and career opportunities. He also oversees a vast majority of NWCA committees that function for the purpose of strengthening high school and college wrestling for males and females. He expanded the NWCA National Duals from a 16-team event to more than 100 schools representing men’s and women’s team at all collegiate divisions.
He competed in three NCAA Division I Championships for West Chester State College, now West Chester University, and received his bachelor’s degree in Health/Physical education in 1983. He then served as a graduate assistant at James Madison University for one year and earned his master’s degree in Athletic Administration. Coached by his father, William Moyer, he competed in three Pennsylvania state wrestling tournaments and had a career record of 89-14-2 for Wilson High School in West Lawn, Pennsylvania.
Moyer was head coach at Chowan Junior College in 1984-85 and advanced three wrestlers to the NJCAA Championships. He was head coach at George Mason University from 1985 to 1995 and led his team to three Virginia Intercollegiate League team titles, two Colonial Athletic Association team championships, and an East Regional team title while compiling a career record of 126-29-2. Twenty-seven GMU wrestlers competed in the NCAA Division I Championships with four earning All-American honors, including a two-time All-American. Moyer was executive director of the GMU Patriot Club from 1995 to 1999 and served as chairman of the NCAA Wrestling Committee from 1997 to 1999.
He received the Lifetime Service to Wrestling award from the National Wrestling Hall of Fame’s Virginia Chapter in 2010, Order of Merit Award from the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2022, and serves on the USA Wrestling and National Wrestling Hall of Fame boards. He currently resides in Manheim,PA, with his wife of 35 years, Bethann and his son, Evan.
