Jared Frayer

Position: Strength & Conditioning Coach Alma Mater, Year: University of Oklahoma, 2001

Jared Frayer is in his second season as strength and conditioning coach for the University of Iowa wrestling team.

In his first season with the Hawkeyes, Frayer helped lead Iowa to its second straight NCAA and Big Ten team titles, crowning five all-Americans and two Big Ten champions. The 2009 national title was the school's 22nd, and it was only the second time in school history Iowa won the NCAA title without an individual champion. Hawkeye juniors Brent Metcalf and Dan Erekson won Big Ten titles en route to the school's 33rd conference team championship. Metcalf was named Outstanding Wrestler of the Big Ten meet for the second straight season, becoming the first Big Ten wrestler to earn the honor in consecutive seasons. Nine Hawkeyes earned academic all-Big Ten honors, besting the previous Iowa school record of seven.

The Hawkeyes ended the 2008-09 dual meet campaign with a perfect 24-0 record, going undefeated for the first time since 1999-2000. Iowa has posted 12 undefeated and untied seasons in school history with the 2009 season producing the most victories ever. The Hawkeyes, who ended the season on a 38-dual match winning streak that dates back to the 2007-08 campaign, clinched the 2009 Big Ten regular season title with a perfect 8-0 mark in conference competition and won the 2008 Midlands team title. Iowa also made another entry in the record books, setting the national collegiate dual meet attendance record of 15,955 when it hosted Iowa State Dec. 6, 2008, at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The previous record of 15,646 was set Feb. 1, 2002, when Minnesota hosted Iowa at the Target Center in Minneapolis. The Hawkeyes won the Iowa State dual, 20-15. Iowa also led the nation with an average home attendance figure of 8,008 for the 2008-09 season.

Frayer brings extensive national competitive experience to the Hawkeye wrestling room. He placed second at the U.S. World Team Trials (145.5 pounds/66 kg) in 2006, third in 2005 and fourth in 2007. He was the 2007 U.S. National Freestyle runner-up, placing third in 2004 and 2005, fourth in 2006 and fifth in 2009. In 2008, Frayer placed third at the U.S. Open and fourth at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials.

A two-time all-American and the 2002 NCAA runner-up at 149 pounds, Frayer was a four-time NCAA qualifier for the University of Oklahoma. He won the 2002 Big 12 Conference title, and the 2000 Wade Schalles Award for recording the most pins of any collegiate competitor that season.

Frayer earned a degree in social studies education from Oklahoma in 2002. His wife's name is Nicole.