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Josh Rhoden

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Following a decorated career with Clackamas Community College, Josh Rhoden continued his winning ways after three seasons on staff at Oregon State. He was elevated to associate head coach ahead of the 2024-25 season.

Oregon State is coming off the 2025 Pac-12 Championship, the second in three seasons. In 2024-25, three - Maximo Renteria (125), Nash Singleton (141) and TJ McDonnell (184) - won individual conference titles and advanced to their first NCAA Championships in Philadelphia.

Trey Munoz (184) capped the 2023-24 season with his third-place finish at the 2024 NCAAs after his individual Pac-12 championship. It not only was Munoz's second consecutive top-six finish but also marked the second student-athlete in the Pendleton era to finish top-four at the NCAAs. Gill Coliseum saw a wrestling-crowd record (8,540) against top-ranked Penn State to open the home slate for 2024-25.

Rhoden was named to the NJCAA's Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

A Pac-12 team championship - the 24th in program history - was achieved with Rhoden helping guide the Beavers in 2022-23.

Five - Brandon Kaylor (125), Cleveland Belton (141), Matthew Olguin (165), Aaron "Mateo" Olmos (174) and Trey Munoz (184) - won individual titles. Two additional student-athletes - Jason Shaner (133) and Tanner Harvey (197) - clinched berths in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the NCAA Tournament.

Rhoden joined the program after serving as the head coach at Clackamas Community College since 2006. While there, his teams have won the NJCAA National Championship five times, including the past four years. He’s also been named the National Coach of the Year four times, earning that honor in two of the last three years.

“Oregon State and the wrestling community in Oregon have a special place in my heart and I am excited to continue to help move wrestling forward here in our state and throughout the Pacific Northwest.”

Rhoden exits Clackamas after posting a 169-36-2 record. In addition to national titles in 2011, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, his Clackamas teams finished as runner ups in 2015, 2017 and 2018. He coached 33 national finalists, 101 All-Americans and 148 national qualifiers.

A Pacific University graduate, Rhoden was a graduate assistant at his alma mater from 2004-05. He then served as the head coach at Redmond High School from 2005-06 before moving to Clackamas in 2006.

Rhoden joins an Oregon State program that produced four All-Americans in 2022, the Beavers’ most since 1995. OSU finished 12^th nationally, the team’s best mark in nearly a decade, and was just half a point shy from winning the Pac-12 Championship. Pendleton, who just finished his second year as the program’s head coach, was named the Pac-12 Coach of the Year.