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Named
the Division III Coach-of-the-Year in 1979 and
1987, Icenhower has produced 59 wrestlers who
have combined for 103 All-American honors, including
19 Division III individual champions and one Division
I titlist. Under Icenhower, the Lions have also
won 19 of the last 22 Metropolitan Conference
championships, including fourteen in a row from
1984 until 1998. Ten times he has been cited as
the Met's Coach-of-the-Year, most recently at
the conclusion of the 1998 championships.
Perhaps his crowning
achievement, however, came in 1982 when he became
the first Division III pilot to ever be a head
coach in the prestigious East-West All-Star Meet.
The honor repeated itself in 1997 when Icenhower
was once again tapped to serve as a coach for
the All-Star Meet, becoming the first Division
III coach to serve twice on the staff of the East-West
All-Star Meet. At the 1999 NCAA Championships,
Icenhower was inducted into the NWCA Division
III Hall of Fame and joined an elite club of just
four coaches in all divisions that have coached
over 100 NCAA All-Americans.
Icenhower's teams
have won 10 New Jersey Athletic Conference championships
outright and tied for another, posting a 56-5
league mark during that 14-year period (1980-93).
In 1988, TCNJ also won the first annual NJAC post-season
tournament, which was also hosted by The College.
Icenhower pilots the
country's most successful Division III wrestling
program. The Lions have produced 110 All-Americans
in NCAA Tournament action, while finishing in
the top 20 in each of the 27 years of the NCAA
Division III Tournament. The Lions' 1,557.0 points
in tournament action is also tops among the nation's
Division III grappling programs in the history
of the tournament.
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