Boone County High School

Boone County High School is excited to announce that Joe Gormally is returning as the head wrestling coach after retiring from teaching in the spring. Gormally has served as the head wrestling coach for the previous eight seasons where he coached 11 state qualifiers, including the program’s first regional champion since 2016 and first state place winner since 2012. During his tenure, he was instrumental in the creation of the John Strawn Nutter Dual Tournament and the development of a youth program in Florence. Gormally has an extensive background in the sport of wrestling. He was a State Champion wrestler in high school and went on to attend the University of Northern Iowa where he was a NCAA Division II runner-up  and a three time Division I All-American. In 1988, he was an Olympic Trials Runner-up. Before Gormally coached at Boone, he was an assistant coach at Drake University from 1986 to 1987 and an assistant coach at Sioux City East in Iowa from 1987 to 1997. Welcome back to Boone County High School, Coach Gormally.