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Phone: 712-274-5282
E-Mail: jager@morningside.edu
 Tim Jager has a 28-17 record for a .622 winning percentage in three seasons as the Mustangs' head coach. Jager guided the Mustangs to a 9-7 record in 2004-05 in the college's first season of varsity competition since the program had previously been disbanded in 1979. He followed that effort with records of 9-4 in 2005-06 and 10-6 this past season.
Jager coached the first national champion in Morningside history during the 2006-07 campaign when Jake Stevenson defeated No. 1-ranked Joffre Lander of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 3-1 in the 184 lb. title bout at the NAIA Championships.
Jager has coached 29 NAIA National Tournament qualifiers in his three years with the team. Stevenson has earned NAIA All-America honors three times with his championship effort in 2007 and with fourth place finishes in the 174 lb. division at both the 2005 and 2006 NAIA National Tournaments.
Before coming to Morningside, Jager had been an
assistant coach at Buena Vista University for three years, where he served under legendary coach Al Baxter,
a 1969 Morningside graduate and a member of Morningside's
M-Club Hall of Fame. Buena Vista, a perennial NCAA Division
III national power, produced nine All-Americans, one national champion, and a pair
of Top 10 finishes in the team standings at the national tournament
during Jager's three years with the Beavers.
Jager was the head
wrestling coach at George-Little Rock High School during the
1999-2000 academic year. He coached two district qualifiers
and had three wrestlers earn All-Siouxland Conference honors
during his one season with the team.
His coaching experience
began at Buena Vista as a student assistant wrestling coach
during the 1995-96 season.
Jager is a 1996
graduate of Buena Vista, where he was a three-year letterwinner
and a two-time national tournament qualifier. He was the Iowa
Intercollegiate Conference 167 lb. runner-up in 1994.
Jager enjoyed an
outstanding prep career when he attended George-Little Rock
High School, where he was a four-year letterwinner and two-time
placewinner at the state tournament. He posted a 36-1 record
as a senior, losing only to Joe Kielman of Clarksville-Allison-Bristow
in the 1992 Class 1A 160 lb. state final. Jager had a 36-4
record as a junior and placed sixth in the Class 1A 145 lb.
division of the state tournament.
Assistant Coach Eric Grund
 Eric Grund is in his first season with the Mustangs.
He was previously an assistant coach at Jamestown College for two years. Grund has also been a volunteer coach for the North Dakota Area 9 Special Olympics and for youth wrestling programs in Watertown, South Dakota, and Jamestown, North Dakota.
Grund is a graduate of Jamestown College, where he was a four-year starter for the Jimmies as well as a three-time NAIA National Tournament qualifier. Grund received All-North Dakota Collegiate Athletic Conference (NDCAC) honors in 2000 and was selected to compete for a NAIA all-star team that toured Europe in the summer of 2000.
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