Jeff McGinness has been named as the 2025 U20 Women’s World Team Coach. The U20 World Championships will be in Sophia, Bulgaria on August 20-22.
McGinness will coach the U20 World Team in a series of U20 World Team Camps this summer at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
The U20 World Team will be decided at the U20 Women’s National Championships in Spokane, Washington this weekend.
McGinness has been the head coach since the beginning of the program and just finished up his third year as head coach of the Simpson Women’s Wrestling program. Simpson tied for 24th place at the 2025 NCWWC National Tournament.
McGinness is one of the most successful wrestlers in Iowa High School wrestling when he was a four-time undefeated state champion at City High in Iowa City. McGinness won a Junior World Freestyle title in 1992 at 58 kg/127 lbs. and was named as the tournament O.W.
At the University of Iowa McGinness was a three-time All American and two-time NCAA National champion for Dan Gable.
McGinness won a national title at 126 lbs. in 1995 and at 142 lbs. in 1998 and was a member of four NCAA National Champion Iowa Hawkeye teams.
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