Taylor Summers in August 2025 returned to the Western Slope and Western Colorado University, taking on the task of initiating the Mountaineer women's wrestling program as its first head coach.
Summers wrestled at Chadron State, earning second team All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference honors in 2016, advancing to the NCAA Division II Championship that same season.
He began his post-competitive career as a strength and conditioning intern at Chadron before stepping into an assistant coach's role with the Eagles' men's program the next year.
Summers moved to Western Colorado entering the 2018-19 season as an assistant to head men's coach Charlie Pipher. During his tenure with the Mountaineers, Summers helped coach 16 DII national qualifiers and 9 DII All-Americans, as well as helping the program to a fourth-place finish at the 2023 DII championship.
He took over the Chadron women's team ahead of the 2023-24 season, producing a program-best eight wins in his inaugural season leading the program.
In his two seasons with the Chadron women's team, he produced a total of eight regional qualifiers and in the 2024-25Â season, a 23rd-place finish at the National Collegiate Women's Wrestling Championships where Esther Peters earned All-American honors with a seventh-place finish in the 207-pound bracket.
Summers spent the 2025-26 academic year recruiting for the program, which begins competition as an RMAC member with the 2026-27 season.
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