Jeff Buxton

Jeff Buxton is the Assistant Coach of wrestling at Columbia University as of September 2024. Buxton is a 1980 graduate of the University of Rhode Island and started his coaching career shortly thereafter as the head coach at Chariho Regional High School in Hopkington, Rhode Island. He then became the head coach at Blair Academy in 1982.

During an impressive 30-year tenure at Blair, Buxton led the team to 30 consecutive National Prep Championships. Blair secured the No. 1 ranking in the country 10 times with Buxton at the helm. A member of the Rhode Island Wrestling Hall of Fame, and member of the New Jersey Wrestling Hall of Fame, Buxton produced numerous national prep champions and dozens of national freestyle champions at Blair. Alumni coached by Buxton went on to win 12 individual NCAA titles and 41 were crowned NCAA Division I All-Americans. Jeff is also the recipient of USA Wrestling’s Lifetime Achievement.

In 2012, Coach Buxton took the head coaching position at Lehigh University's post-graduate wrestling program, the Lehigh Valley Athletic Club (LVAC). At LVAC, Coach Buxton coached senior-level wrestlers at U S senior National championships, the Pan American Games and the senior World Championships . On a selected basis, he also works with junior wrestlers who are competing internationally.

In 2019, Coach Buxton served as the USA men’s wrestling freestyle coach.

In 2022, Buxton served as the head coach of the Scarlet Knight Regional Training Center at Rutgers University. In his role there, he worked closely with recently hired Columbia wrestling coach, Sebastian Rivera, as Rivera went on to be a World Silver Medalist in 2023 and an Olympic Bronze Medalist in 2024.

As of September 2024, Buxton currently serves as the Assistant Wrestling Coach at Columbia University.