Lanny Bryant has spent a lifetime devoted to wrestling. He was a very successful high school and collegiate wrestler, an extraordinary high school coach and administrator, a college coach and the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Wrestling USA magazine.

Lanny competed in junior high and high school at Colorado Springs, and later at the University of Northern Colorado. He strongly felt that the schoolboy wrestler and his coach were not receiving adequate information and recognition. While teaching biology and coaching in Worland, Wyoming, he joined with two other wrestling coaches with the same dream and Scholastic Wrestling News was born. In 1976 the Bryant Family became the sole owners of Wrestling USA magazine, formerly Scholastic Wrestling News.

He retired from teaching and coaching in 1987, and took a leap of faith. Wrestling USA magazine became a full time job. The decision was a good one as the magazine has only gotten better. The magazine is now in its 38th year of publishing. Bryant is careful to keep his information outlets focused on the positive aspects of amateur wrestling, with an emphasis on scholastic wrestling.

Lanny Bryant's contribution to wrestling through this publication is immeasurable. He has done more to elevate awareness of the high school talent than anyone in the sport.

He also contributed to the sport of wrestling by serving as Coach of the Montana and Wyoming High School Cultural Exchange Teams, the National Coach of the USA Junior World Team, the USA Junior Teams to Russia and Poland, and Team Leader for the USA World-Schoolboy Team in Stockholm, Sweden, and Mexico City. He has become a fixture at the NCAA tournaments, USA Wrestling Championships and other regional and national competitions through the United States.