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| At 2007 LA Wrestling Hall of Fame banquet | At the 2016 Ken Cole Memorial |
1971 & 1972 SEC champion for LSU. 1970 & 1973 SEC runner-up for LSU.
LSU team captain in 1973.
Coached Redemptorist High School to a Division II state championship in 1975, Baker High School to a Division I runner-up spot in 1977 and Brusly High School to a Division II runner-up spot in 1981.
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| Prior to winning the 1971 SEC Champion for LSU @ 167#s | 1972 SEC Champion for LSU @ 150#s |
Coach Phil Bode was born in Iowa and wrestled from the
8th grade for Algona High School, where he became Iowa's state runner-up at 154
lbs, graduating as Outstanding Wrestler and Team Captain for the Iowa State High
School Wrestling Championship team of 1969.
As a scholarship athlete at
Louisiana State University, Coach Bode was twice Southeastern Conference
Champion and twice Runner-up from 1970-1973. He was captain of his
Southeastern Conference Champion team in 1973 and was graduated from LSU with a
Bachelor of Science degree in English and Health, Physical, and Recreation
Education.
Following his College Career, Coach Bode attended graduate
school and was Assistant Coach for LSU in 1973-74, then left LSU to start the
wrestling program at Redemptorist High School, where his team won the Division
II State title in 1975. In 1977 he coached Baker High School to a State
Runner-up finish, then left for Brusly where he started the Panther wrestling
program. Returning to Redemptorist in 1981, he assisted for two years and
then left wrestling until 1995, when he returned to coaching at Zachary High
School, helping to resurrect that program to prominence.
In 1999, Coach
Bode assisted Rodney Hernandez in forming The Ascension Wrestling Club in
Ascension Parish, and became the first coach for St. Amant High school when the
team was initiated. In 2000, he was named Louisiana USA Wrestling Man of
the Year for efforts to spread and develop wrestling in the state. He
continued by assisting East Ascension and Dutchtown as they began their
wrestling teams in 2001 and 2002. Since 1999, he has been the Director of
The Ascension Wrestling Club, serving as Head Coach until the present.