Wrestling | 9/24/2024 3:06:00 PM

WARRENSBURG, Mo. -- University of Central Missouri Athletic Hall of Fame wrestler Gary Mayabb was named a 2024 inductee into the Missouri Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as the Lifetime Service Award winner. It was announced Monday Sept. 23, by the organization.

Mayabb is a graduate from Central Missouri where he was a member of the Mules Wrestling team from 1980-1983 under UCM Athletic Hall of Fame Head Coach Roger Denker. He was a two-time team captain, an NCAA Championships qualifier, and the MIAA Most Outstanding Wrestler in 1983 and was inducted into the UCM Athletic Hall of Fame in 2018.

Mayabb was a U.S. Open finalist in 1990 and a four-time Olympics Trials qualifier (1980, 1984, 1988, 1992).

He was also the manager of the USA Wrestling Greco-Roman Program.

For more than three decades, Mayabb was a highly accomplished high school wrestling coach in the Kansas City, Missouri. He collected seven team state championships, was a two-time National Wrestling Coaches Association Region Coach of the Year and State Coach of the Year, a five-time Missouri Wrestling Association State Coach of the Year and two-time Missouri State High School Activities Association Coach of the Year.

Mayabb also has had a longtime career as a NCAA Division I Wrestling Official for the Big 10 Conference from 2006-2017, and was also an official for the NCAA Championships from 2000-2017.

He now serves as the University of Iowa Women's Wrestling Associate Head Coach.

Mayabb will be honored on Sunday, October 20, during a ceremony in Jefferson City, Missouri.