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1300 North Campus Drive
Hilton M. Briggs Library Room 241
University Station Box 2115
Brookings, South Dakota 57007
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Identifier
SDSU-WRES
Authorized form of name
Jim Koch Amateur Wrestling Collection
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Type
- Educational
- Index
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SDSU Archives and Special Collections
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Address
Street address
1300 North Campus Drive
Hilton M. Briggs Library Room 241
University Station Box 2115
Locality
Brookings
Region
South Dakota
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Postal code
57007
Telephone
605-688-5094
Fax
arcrefs@sdstate.edu
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History
The Jim Koch Amateur Wrestling Collection contains 31 wrestling books and 61 bound volumes of Amateur Wrestling News, the oldest and most respected wrestling publication in the country. The collection’s AWN issues date from January 1956 to the present. The monthly magazine features results at the high school, college, and world levels. Tournaments and major conferences are covered in detail.
The collection belonged to Jim Koch, a South Dakota State University graduate and esteemed college wrestling coach. Koch’s family donated the collection to Briggs Library in 2017, thanks to the facilitation of library volunteer Bob Bartling. Bartling created an index of every issue of AWN, which will be converted to a database soon. Bartling was also responsible for bringing in the ]Prairie Striders Running Club Library](https://www.sdstate.edu/sdsu-archives-and-special-collections/prairie-striders-running-club-library).
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