Greg Strobel (August 17, 1952 – October 8, 2020) was an American

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, coach, and member of the

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from

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Retrieved 2018-11-24. From 1995 to 2008, he was the head coach at

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, one of the top

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programs in the country. Strobel won two

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titles and was a three-time All-American at

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, finishing his college career with a 126-8-1 record before starting his coaching career. He was an assistant coach at Oregon State University, a head high school coach at Roseburg High School, a US Wrestling official and a private club coach before taking the head coaching job at Lehigh in 1995, where he held an endowed chair: the Lawrence White Head Coach of Wrestling. He led Lehigh to five consecutive

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championships and multiple Top-Ten NCAA championship finishes. He coached two national champions. He was inducted into the

in 2012, the

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Sports Hall of Fame in 1993, and the

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in 2016. Strobel died on October 8, 2020, at the age of 68.

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Lehigh Athletics Mourns the Passing of Greg Strobel
1952 births 2020 deaths American male sport wrestlers American wrestling coaches Lehigh Mountain Hawks coaches Oregon State Beavers wrestlers Oregon State Beavers wrestling coaches Sportspeople from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania People from Scappoose, Oregon People from Prairie County, Montana Deaths from cancer in the United States {{US-wrestling-bio-stub