Bucky Rehain had no experience in wrestling until he signed a contract in 1964 to teach physical education at Kearny High School with one special proviso: coaching wrestling required. Engaged to be married and eager Bucky grabbed the opportunity. Little did he know that this unusual introduction to wrestling would become a lifetime pleasure, a passion that would grow stronger each year. Keeping one page ahead of his wrestlers at Kearny, Bucky managed to take a first year team to a 9-4 record. When a football and wrestling position opened in 1965 at Pascack Hills High School, he moved there where he coached wrestling with outstanding success for some 30 years.

An excellent athlete in football and baseball at Montclair State College, Bucky placed third nationally as a Division 3 punter on the football team; he also received strong consideration as a major league pitching prospect. He quickly transferred these athletic skills to the coaching of wrestling.

His overall team record, including dual meets and tournaments, is a hefty 456–98-1. His teams won 21 League Championships, 20 District titles, 10 Bergen County Championships, and 5 State Sectional Championships. Individual accomplishments are equally as impressive: 12 State Champions, including two Outstanding Wrestler Awards, 56 Region Champions, and 130 District champions. It should be noted that Bucky also excelled as a baseball coach for ten years where his teams won six Sectional Championships and two State Championships.

Awards came to Bucky Rehain as his coaching accomplishments revealed an exceptional coach: Region Coach of the Year five times, Bergen County Coach of the Year five times, New Jersey Coach of the Year, 1977; and recognized with National Coach of the Year honors in 1977 and 1984.

In reflecting on his forty years coaching, Bucky feels that there was no better place to be than in the wrestling room coaching the sport of wrestling. He has seen hundreds of young boys grow into contributing members of society in large part because of the discipline they learned in wrestling. And, of course, because Coach Rehain helped build in his wrestlers lifetime skills that are most important: character, leadership, honesty, determination, dedication and team spirit.