Join us for the 9th Annual CCC Wrestling Crab Feed & Auction- Sept. 19, 2020
Wrestling
Clackamas wrestling is known throughout the Northwest and from coast to coast for producing high-caliber wrestlers and students. Under the guidance of 13-year Head Coach Josh Rhoden, the program has compiled a dual meet record of 141-35-2 and produced 77 All-Americans, 24 National Finalists, 11 National Champions, as well as earned 92 Academic All-Americans. The Cougars have won a total of 6 National Dual Meet Championships over the years, including winning an NJCAA Record five straight championships from 2014-2018!
Clackamas Community College currently is the NJCAA's team champion this season (2019) with a school record of nine All-Americans which set the National Scoring record with an incredible 176.5 team points earned over the two day championship. The Cougars have been dominate over the past decade winning the West District Championship 8 of the last 9 years!
Cougar wrestlers are bound by a tradition of excellence and hard work. It is this commitment that has allowed us to continue to be a contender year in and year out at the national championships.
If you're interested in joining the Clackamas wrestling team, contact Coach Josh Rhoden at 503-594-3275 or joshr@clackamas.edu
Wrestling Coaching Staff
Josh Rhoden
503-594- 3275 | joshr@clackamas.edu
This is Coach Rhoden's 12th season at the helm of the program. A gifted mentor of the sport - his inaugural season with the Cougars was capped with a fifth-place finish at the NJCAA National Championships and a (then) school record six All-Americans.
Since then, the Cougar program has not finished any lower than 8th place at the NJCAA National Championships, including a NJCAA National Championship in 2011. He has coached 61 NJCAA All-Americans (an average of 5 per year) including 19 National Finalists and 8 national champions. In addition, the Cougars boast 5 National Dual Meet Championships (2011, 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017).
A product of Crook County High School, Rhoden was a standout at Clackamas during the 2000-01 season, taking third at the regionals and a top-10 finish at national's.
His successful freshman season at CCC led to a collegiate career with Pacific Lutheran University for his sophomore campaign. He became a dominating NCAA Division III 174-pounder, winning conference champion twice, was named the 2003 Northwest Wrestling Championships Most Outstanding Wrestler and qualified for the NCAA Division III National Championships.
Josh then transferred to Pacific University for his senior season after Pacific Lutheran suspended its wresting program. He enjoyed continued success at Pacific, winning two tournament crowns, until he sustained a season-ending knee injury. He compiled 91 wins during his stellar collegiate career, but the untimely injury resulted in Roden falling nine matches short of a huge collegiate milestone of 100 victories.
His coaching career began with Pacific University where he was a graduate-assistant for 2004-05 season. He then became an sssistant at Redmond High School where he helped lead the Panthers to fifth place in the 2006 OSAA 4A Wrestling Championships.
Josh and his wife, Keri, live in Oregon City with their two children, Ellie and Cody.
Brett Sanchez
Brett was Coach Rhoden’s first recruit from the state of California to wrestle at Clackamas Community College from California. He was a two time NJCAA All-American and was a member of the 2011 NJCAA National Team Championship.
Following his time at Clackamas Brett transferred to NCAA Division 2 Grand Canyon University where he wrestled under Head Coach RC LaHaye. He was a two year starter and team captain at 184 pounds. In 2012 Grand Canyon University finished 3rd at NCAA Tournament.
Brett started his coaching career instantly after he graduated college. He was the assistant head coach for Mater Dei Catholic High School in San Diego California from 2013-2016 and promoted to Head Coach for the 2016-2018 seasons which brought about the high schools first CIF Champions, CIF Masters Champions, and CIF State Placer, as well as, National All-Americans.
In 2013 Brett started his own wrestling club where he was the owner, founder, and Head Coach of UTB Wrestling. UTB is a year round wrestling club ran in San Diego opened to kindergarten to seniors in high school. He created an environment and built a culture where kids can fall in love with the sport of wrestling for all ages and become driven, goal oriented, and discipline. UTB has had great success so far creating many youth state placers, youth state champs, youth All-Americans and many High School State Placers, State Champions, and National All-Americans.
Rich Vigorito
This is Coach Vigorito's 11th season with the Cougar program. He competed collegiately at Pacific Lutheran University from 2001-2003 and at Southern Oregon University during the 2005-06 seasons. His competitive ability and wrestling knowledge has been instrumental in the building of All-Americans and national champions over his time here at Clackamas.
Rich took first place at the Southern Oregon Open and fourth place at the Reno Tournament of Champions his senior season with the Raiders.
He was a former teammate and workout partner of Coach Rhoden's while at Pacific Lutheran. Rich brings a great work ethic and mat sense to the coaching staff. In addition to this, his weight training principles and knowledge of exercise physiology have been incorporated into every aspect of the Cougar training program.
Rich graduated in 2006 with a MS in Computer Science from Southern Oregon University
Daniel Leonard
Daniel Leonard was a 3 time Oregon state placer and a two-time runner-up at his alma mater, Sherwood High School. Following his high school career, Daniel attended Clackamas Community College where he earned an Associate’s Degree and helped the Cougars to a National Runner up finish as a team. Being with Clackamas led to an outstanding opportunity at Lindsey Wilson College in Kentucky where he was at two-time NAIA All-American (3rd & 4th) and helped lead his team to a National Runner-Up finish. Daniel was also selected as the male student-athlete of the year. Following his senior season he joined the coaching staff at Lindsey as a graduate assistant where he helped coach multiple All-Americans and a National Champion.