Rick Bollenbach never qualified for the state tournament while at Altus High School, but he was a four-year letterman and two-year starter at Central Oklahoma where he capped his college career by winning the 142-pound NAIA national championship in 1985. He started his coaching career the following year as head coach at Edmond North Junior High School and had a 50-23-1 dual record in six seasons there. Bollenbach then went to Edmond Memorial High School as an assistant before starting the program at Edmond North High School in 1993. He guided the Huskies to a 107-61-2 dual record from 1993-2009 before spending his last four years in the coaching profession as an assistant at North. He was the Oklahoma Wrestling Coaches Association Coach of the year in 2001-02 when North won the regional title and finished as state runner-up. Bollenbach coached 15 individual state champions and seven high school All-Americans, including two national champions. Several of his wrestlers went on to earn collegiate All-America honors, with two (Teyon Ware and Kyle Evans) winning national titles. For his long-time commitment to coaching excellence, Rick Bollenbach is honored with the 2019 Lifetime Service to Wrestling Award by the Oklahoma Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.