Head coach
Chris Ayres
Chris Ayres was head coach of Stanford (CA) and Princeton (NJ) at 14 NCAA championships, 2010–2026. Ayres's teams finished in the top ten once. Ayres's wrestlers won two individual titles and earned 18 All-American places.
By school
| School | NCAA tournaments | Team titles | Top four | Top ten | Champions | All-Americans | Entries | Wrestlers | Record | Falls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford (CA) | 2024–2026 (3) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 21 | 15 | 58–44 | 2 |
| Princeton (NJ) | 2010–2023 (11) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 42 | 21 | 71–80 | 6 |
As a wrestler
Chris Ayres wrestled for Lehigh (PA) at four NCAA championships, 1996–1999, and went 9–9. Ayres placed sixth at 157 lb in 1999.
| Year | School | Weight | Seed | Finish | W–L | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Lehigh (PA) | 157 | 11 | 6th | 4–3 | 7 bouts |
| 1998 | Lehigh (PA) | 150 | No seed listed | Lost consolation round 1 | 1–2 | 3 bouts |
| 1997 | Lehigh (PA) | 142 | No seed listed | Lost consolation round 4 | 4–2 | 6 bouts |
| 1996 | Lehigh (PA) | 142 | No seed listed | Lost consolation round 1 | 0–2 | 2 bouts |
Chris Ayres's full wrestler record, every bout →
Coach and wrestler matched from Chris Ayres - Stanford Cardinal - Official Athletics Website, Stanford University Athletics (Staff biography, paragraph beginning "A former EIWA champion and two-time recipient of Lehigh's").
How these are counted
- NCAA tournaments are the championship years in which Chris Ayres was the established head coach of a team with entrants. They are not years of employment; there were no championships in 1943–45 or 2020.
- A year inside the span with no established coach is listed but not counted. A year with two head coaches counts in full for both.
- Team titles are official NCAA titles from the published standings (1928, 1931 and 1933 have none). Top four and top ten come from the same standings.
- Entries count each wrestler once per tournament; All-Americans are counted as each era awarded them; wins and losses include forfeit, default and disqualification results; falls exclude forfeits.
- The head coach for each year, with sources, is on that year's program page. Report a correction.
Cite this page: “Chris Ayres, head coach”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/coaches/ch_8cdd38f62f41460a/chris-ayres/