Kerry Regner has been named the men’s wrestling coach at Albright College and was tasked with leading the team into their first season competing since 2006 beginning in the 2025-26 academic year. In Regner's first season, Trent Mahoney earned All-American honors and placed eighth in nationals. Danny Metzler and Beknazar Baiyshbekov also reached the semifinals for their respective weight classes.
Prior to Albright Regner spent the last two years as the Director of Coaching Development with the National Wrestlers Coaches Association (NWCA) out of Manheim, Pa. While serving in the role, Regner was responsible for all logistics for coaching development and the NWCA Scholastic Leadership Academies. Among many other roles as the Director for Coaching Development, Regner ran successful Blue Chip Prospect camps helping student-athletes get to the next level.
From 2017 to 2022, Regner was the head coach of Division II Millersville wrestling program where he had success on and off the mat. At Millersville, Regner led Millersville to an 11th place finish at nationals in 2019 while coaching an individual to a NCAA championship the same year. Four student-athletes became NCAA All-Americans under the leadership of coach Regner while six different student-athletes became national qualifiers.
Prior to his stint at Millersville, Regner was the head coach at Williams Baptist College in Arkansas. Regner was the first wrestling coach in Williams Baptist history after creating the varsity wrestling program. At Williams Baptist, coach Regner ended his tenure seeing his team finish 4th, 15th and 21st at the national tournament while having one national champion, six All-Americans and 23 national qualifiers.
As a wrestler himself Regner was a 9x medalist and top five place winner at international competitions, a 4x US Open place winner, a member of the 2007-08 US Senior National Team as well as a 2010 University World team member.
Regner is a graduate of Northern Michigan University with a Bachelors of Communication Studies and would later to go on to earn a Masters degree in Mass Media and Journalism with a certificate in Public Relations from Clarion University of Pennsylvania.
