Lakeland College

Wrestling Coaches

Mike DeRoehn
Head Coach

E-mail: deroehnMR@lakeland.edu

Phone: (920) 565-1366

Mike DeRoehn, one of the most familiar names in Wisconsin wrestling, is in his second season as Lakeland's head coach.

In the 2010-11 season, DeRoehn led the Muskies to their fourth-straight Northern Wrestling Association Team Title as four grapplers placed first in their respective weight class. He led Lakeland to a ninth-place finish at the Great Lakes Regional, hosted by Lakeland, and sent the school's fifth-ever wrestler to Nationals.

Prior to coaching at Lakeland, DeRoehn coached at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh for eight years, including six as head coach.

Since 2006, DeRoehn has served as the state coach of the Wisconsin Wrestling Federation, an organization that works to improve Wisconsin wrestling for all ages. He will continue to work with the federation on a volunteer basis as the University Age Level Director.

He also owns and is head wrestling coach of World Class Wrestling School, which assists young men and women in developing their wrestling skills, building character and developing positive habits on and off the mat.

In 2010, he was named USA Wrestling Greco-Roman Junior National Coach of the Year.

DeRoehn was an award-winning wrestler at Plymouth State University (N.H.), where he earned a bachelor's degree in physical education (2005). He has a master's in educational leadership from UW-Oshkosh (2009).

He currently resides in New Holstein with his wife, Laurie, and three step-children, Nicole, Jaime and David.

Fred Brown
Assistant Coach

Fred Brown enters his first season as an assistant coach for the wrestling team.

Brown has coached 30 years at all levels including developmental, middle school, high school, junior national and college. Most recently, coach Brown was a member of the Coaches Apprentice Program (CAP) through USA Wrestling where he traveled to Turkey to attend the Senior World Wrestling Championships.

Prior to coaching at Lakeland, Brown was the head wrestling coach for 11 seasons at Sheboygan Falls High School.  There he led the Falcons to 12 regional titles, two sectional titles and countless conference championships. Brown’s Falcons have been ranked in the Top 10 six of the last seven seasons.

Before assuming the head job at Sheboygan Falls, Brown served as an assistant coach at Somerset High School (79-80), Jefferson High (1981-83), Sheboygan Falls High School (83-91 and 95-2000) and Sheboygan North High School (91-95). Brown was also a graduate assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse from 1980-81. Brown wrestled in college at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

Brown graduated with a bachelor’s in Physical Education at UW-River Falls.  He earned his master's degree in Specially Designed PE from UW-La Crosse in 1981.  In addition to coaching, Brown is an Instructor Trainer (IT) for the American Red Cross and teaches a number of instructor courses.

He currently resides in Sheboygan Falls with his wife Lori and has two children, Nathan and Stephanie.