Grew up in Elma, WA (Elma HS) where he won a 158# state title in 1984. Pine graduated from Eastern Washington University with a BA in Marketing. He did not wrestle his first two years in college but did compete his last three seasons.
In '88, he won 36 matches, broke the EWU season pin record(14), and was an alternate to the NCAA D1 tournament.
In '89, he was the conference top seed at 158# but a bout of pneumonia ended his season.
In 96-97, he was a volunteer assistant coach for Wilmington College (D3) in Ohio.
Pine moved back to WA in '98 where he coached youth, middle school, and high school in his hometown of Elma.
In 2011, he began volunteering with the club team at The Evergreen State College in Olympia. He also helped start the wrestling team at South Puget Sound CC in Olympia where he coached two NCWA All-Americans.
In 2015, Pine competed in the Veteran's division winning a freestyle national title at 97kg and earning a bronze medal at World Championships in Athens, Greece.
In 2015, he began coaching the new program at Grays Harbor College. GHC has won Northwest Conference titles their first two seasons while finishing 10th in the team race at the 2017 NCWA Nationals.
Pine was NW Conference Coach of the Year for the 2016 and 2017.
Pine is currently the director of the Washington State Wrestling Foundation. Their purpose is to help raise awareness and funds for college wrestling in the state of Washington.
He and his wife, Marilyn, reside in the Elma area.
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