Richard Besnier

By school

As a wrestler

Dick Besnier wrestled for Maryland at two NCAA championships, 1959–1960, and went 0–2. Besnier lost in the round of 32 in 1959 and 1960.

Dick Besnier's full wrestler record, every bout →

Coach and wrestler matched from Richard "Dick" Besnier, National Wrestling Hall of Fame (Lifetime Service biography, sentences beginning "While at the University of Maryland, class of 1960").

How these are counted

• NCAA tournaments are the championship years in which Richard Besnier 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.