Inductees

Roye started his wrestling career in 1964 at the North Omaha Boys Club, coached by Bill Stone Ankle, Ron McGruder, Roy Haynes, and Maurice R. This National Junior Olympic Champion compiled a 105-4 record and won a State Championship before graduating from Technical High School in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1974. He was coached by Bill Hearn, Curly Alexander, and Harry Gaylor. Roye was inducted into the Nebraska Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1981. While wrestling at Arizona State University, Roye was a 4- time NCAA Division 1 Qualifier and 3-time NCAA D1 All American who won two Western Athletic Conference titles at 150 pounds in 1976 and 1977, helping ASU and Coach Bobby Douglas to their second team championship in program history. Oliver placed 5th in the NCAA Championships in both of those seasons, and his 8th place medal at 158 pounds in 1979 made him ASU’s first 3-time honoree.

His collegiate record was 81-21-1, and he was inducted into the ASU Sports Hall of Fame in 1982. After college, Roye was an alternate on the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Team in 1984. He was the head wrestling coach at Palomar Junior College in San Marcos from 1986-1992, where his 1988 team won the California Community College Champion-ship and he was designated California Community College Coach of the Year.

During this period, he started a youth wrestling program at the Boys’ and Girls’ Club of Escondido, CA, growing the group from 12 to 85 wrestlers; many of them excelled in high school, including 3 CIF State Champions and 8 State Placers among 12 State Qualifiers. Oliver returned home to serve as an assistant wrestling coach at the University of Nebraska Omaha from 1998-2003. He was a member of the 1996 U.S. Olympic Wrestling coaches staff, and he also served as a USA Wrestling National Develop-mental Coach at the Olympic Training center in Colorado Springs from 1993-1998.

Back in California, Roye was head wrestling coach at Fallbrook High School from 2003-08. He followed that term with two years as assistant coach at California Baptist University in Riverside, 2008-2010. Since then, Oliver has been the head wrestling coach at Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad. He was selected as the Coach of the Year there in 2017 after revising and implementing their program and leading ANA to their first two CIF State Qualifiers and first State Placer. The team was runner-up in their CIF Divisional competition. Roye won the National Veterans Freestyle Championships in 2004 and 2007. He won a gold medal and was Team Leader at the Veterans Freestyle World Championships in Istanbul, Turkey in 2007. He organized and administered 10 annual national wrestling camps or clinics. Oliver was inducted into the California Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2015.