Jim Nicholson

JIM NICHOLSON, Elkhart Memorial High School, 1973 (Elkhart High School, 1970-72)

** Earned 5 varsity letters in football and wrestling

** Football – 3-year letter winner … member of 1970 EHS state championship team

** Wrestling – 2-year letter winner

Manchester College, 1977

** Played two football for two seasons

Coaching

**Elkhart Community Schools Coach of the Year (1998)

** Wrestling, head coach Elkhart Memorial, 1978-’99; assistant, 1977-’78; head coach, Elkhart Central, 2005-’07; Named to Indiana Wrestling Hall of Fame (2000); Northern Indiana Conference Coach of the Year (1998); coached 7 team sectional championships, 91 individual sectional champions, 28 state qualifiers, 13 IHSAA state medalists, 2 IHSAA state champions and 1 NIC team champion (1990)

** Football, assistant coach Elkhart Memorial, 1987-’89; head coach West Side Middle School, 1993-‘97