Buffalo Bulls Wrestling

We just had a visitor in town looking at our assistant light weight coaching position. We had a great visit with Jimmy Rollins who is currently the Interim Head Coach at Iowa Lakes Junior College. Here is a brief bio of Jimmy Rollins' career.


Jimmy Rollins just finished his first season as assistant wrestling coach with the newly formed Iowa Lakes Wrestling Program. He is looking to help take the program to the top. Rollins help lead the Lakers program to a sixth place finish at the NJCAA National Championships in 2008-09. Rollins comes to Iowa Lakes after coaching two seasons at Dana College where he helped produce 12 Athletic All-Americans as well as 5 Academic All-Americans. In the 2006-2007 season the team was GPAC Champions as well as the North Region Champions. They ended the season with a 4th place performance at the National Tournament but finished the season with the #1 GPA in the Nation. In the 2007-2008 season they repeated as GPAC Champions and finished the season in 5th place at the National Tournament.


Before beginning his coaching career he began his collegiate wrestling career at Gloucester County College in New Jersey. Freshman year he was the 1st ever undefeated National Champion in the school history winning the NJCAA crown at 125lbs.While at GCC his team also won the Div 3 Junior College National Championship in 2002. In his sophomore season Rollins again won the Mid-Atlantic region title but was injured in his semi final match forcing him to pull out of the tournament and finished in 6th place garnering another All-American season.Rollins then transferred to Dana College in Blair, Nebraska .During his junior season he won GPAC and Central Region titles and finished 3rd in the NAIA national tournament. In his senior season he defended his Central region crown and capped off his career on top of the podium winning the 133lb title at the NAIA national tournament. While Dana College also won the NAIA team title with a record breaking performance of 193 points. Rollins finished his collegiate career with a 114-9 record.Rollins, formerly of West Deptford, NJ, wrestled for West Deptford High where he was a 2-time New Jersey state place winner placing 6th and 3rd. He was also a 2-time District 29 champ and a Region 8 champ. During his junior season West Deptford brought home the 2000 NJSIAA state championship in Group 3.