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Johnny Cobb

Cobb is the 176th member and devoted a lifetime to coaching wrestling at Tascosa High and Wayland Baptist.

Before Cobb retired a couple of years ago, he became the first-ever coach of the new men’s and women’s wrestling program at Wayland Baptist back in January of 2010.

Prior to his stint at WBU, Cobb was a two-time Texas High School Coach of the Year at Tascosa High School, a member of the Texas Wrestling Ring of Honor and the Texas chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Cobb was a three-time district champion at Tascosa in the mid-60’s, losing only one high school match in three years of competition. Cobb was one of the founding members of the Panhandle Amateur Wrestling Association, he also founded the first kid’s wrestling program in the Texas Panhandle of Texas at the Maverick Boys Club in 1971.

Cobb started his high school coaching career in 1988 coaching the boys and girls teams at Tascosa. He coached the Rebs from 1990 to 2008 (his first retirement) where his teams won three state championships.

Tascosa High wrestlers earned 21 individual state titles under Cobb, one of those, Brandon Slay, going on to win the 2000 Olympic Gold Medal.