Wrestling
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- Tyler_Grayson@brown.edu
- Joined Brown:
- June 2025
- Alma Mater:
- Central Michigan '10
Assistant coach Tyler Grayson heads into his eighth season with Brown University wrestling in 2025-26. After being hired in August of 2011, Grayson garnered first assistant status in August of 2014 and held that position until his departure in 2018. A four-year letterwinner at Central Michigan, Grayson was an NCAA Qualifier (Round of 12) in 2010 with the Chippewas and a 2010 Mid-American Conference Champion.
In May of 2018, Grayson left the Bears to become the assistant athletic director and head wrestling coach at the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Newport, Rhode Island from August of 2018 to January of 2022. From January of 2022 to June of 2025, Grayson was promoted to athletic director of the Naval Academy Preparatory School, overseeing all athletic programs and trainers.
During his first stint with the Bears, Grayson has helped mentor six NCAA qualifying wrestlers in CJ LaFragola ’19 (2017), Steven Galiardo ’17 (2016), Justin Staudenmayer ’17 (2015-16), Ophir Bernstein ’15 (2012-15), Billy Watterson ’15 (2013), and Dave Foxen ’12 (2012). He aided Bernstein in earning All-America honors in 2014, becoming Brown’s first wrestler to earn such honors in 16 years.
In 2011-12, he served as an assistant coach at Neosho County Community College in Chanute, Kan., a program that boasts eight National Championships and 45 All-Americans at the JUCO level. At Neosho CCC, Grayson helped direct the Panthers to a sixth-place tie as a team at the NJCAA Districts and qualified four wrestlers for Nationals.
A native of Gladstone, Mo., Grayson headed North to Central Michigan where he compiled 31 wins in his first three seasons. His senior year he finished with a 20-7 overall mark and 13-2 dual meet record on his way to a conference championship at 165 pounds.
Grayson is also a two-time Midlands placer (sixth and eighth), two-time University Nationals placer (second and seventh), and an All-American as well as a two-time state champion at the high school level.
