John Marsh earned All-American honors with a fifth-place finish competing out of the 149-pound weight class at the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships in 2010. To this day, he is the highest placewinner at the NCAA wrestling championships in school  history. John was a two-time All-New England selection (2007, 2010) and captured the regional title at 149 in 2010 to earn a spot at the national championship meet. John notched 111 wins over the course of his outstanding three-year career with the Bears. He ranks third in program history in career wins and holds the single-season marks with 47 wins and 137 takedowns in 2006-2007. He is the only Bear to record 100 or more takedowns in a season twice as he tallied 104 in 2009-2010. John also recorded the second highest winning percentage in a season when he went 35-3 (.932) in 2010. His 86 dual meet points in 2007 ranks third in the BSU wrestling record book. John is also a member of the Massachusetts Wrestling Hall of Fame, the New England Wrestling Hall of Fame and the New Bedford High School Hall of Fame. An accomplished Jiu-Jitsu practitioner, John won the Purple Belt Worlds two years in a row in the Master's division and just recently won the Master's Two Brown Belt Pan American Championship. He still coaches wresting, working with youth, high school, and college level wrestlers, and coaches wrestling for Jiu-Jitsu and for mixed martial arts. John is a 2010 graduate of Bridgewater State where he earned a degree in physical education with a  concentration in exercise science. A native of New Beford, Massachusetts, John presently resides in Valley Cottage, New York with his wife, Sallee (Bickford) Marsh '11, and their son, Theo. John is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and runs Personal Training Gym, Essential Strength and Conditioning in White Plains.