Former Apple Valley coach Jim Jackson will join one-time rival Scot Davis on the coaching staff at Eden Prairie High School in Minnesota.

By Tim Leighton

St. Paul Pioneer Press

Longtime Minnesota high school wrestling coaches and rivals Scot Davis and Jim Jackson will share the same sideline next season. Jackson, who led Apple Valley to two national titles and 14 state championships, has been hired as an associate head coach to assist Davis at Eden Prairie High School.

“This is going to be a lot of fun — and great for wrestling,” Davis told the Pioneer Press on Wednesday. “We combine a bunch of different perspectives.”

And victory totals.

Davis, entering his second season at Eden Prairie, has the most coaching victories in the nation for amateur wrestling with a 1,015-171-14 record. Most of those wins came during a 25-year run at Owatonna when he led the Huskies to big-school state championships in 1998 and 2005.

Jackson, who stepped down from Apple Valley two years ago after 32 years with the program, is considered the most successful coach in Minnesota high school wrestling history. He had a 619-26-3 record, taking over the program in 1995 after 15 seasons as an assistant to Bill Demaray.

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