Poway High School wrestling coach John Meyers, who took over one of the most successful programs in the country and has kept it at a nationally elite level, is on a leave of absence, according to the Poway Unified School District.<\/p>\n
The reasons behind the leave of absence were not immediately available.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we always desire to maintain transparency,\u201d district spokesman Mark Saunders wrote, \u201cwe are unable to share details on any personnel-related issues.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meyers is an on-campus teacher at Poway, working as a resource specialist. He took over the school\u2019s wrestling program from Hall of Fame coach Wayne Branstetter in 2018. Meyers\u2019 team won San Diego Section Masters champions every year from 2019 to 2025, continuing a tradition of success that began in 1982. Poway has won 44 consecutive CIF San Diego Section titles.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear whether Meyers\u2019 absence might affect Poway\u2019s 2026-27 season. High school wrestling is a winter sport, with practices not scheduled to begin until November.<\/p>\n
Poway has sent wrestlers to top college programs such as Stanford, Cornell, Army, Navy, Air Force, North Carolina, Cal Poly and more. The Titans\u2019 $1 million on-campus wrestling facility is an Olympic Regional Training Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poway High School wrestling coach John Meyers, who took over one of the most successful programs in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2044,181,74,76,75,127],"class_list":["post-468483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-high-school-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}