Mike Clock, who taught math and coached football at Sunset High School before building one of the most decorated small-college wrestling programs in the country at Pacific University, died July 25 in Vancouver, Washington. He was 90.

Pacific University announced Clock's death on Tuesday, Aug. 4. News in the Grove detailed his career and legacy.

Clock's time at Sunset came early in a career that would eventually land him in four halls of fame, including the NAIA Hall of Fame in 1988.

According to the Oregon chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, he taught math and coached football at Sunset while simultaneously serving as head wrestling coach at Lewis & Clark College, where he guided Harold Weight to the 1965 NAIA national title.

Clock became Pacific's head wrestling coach in 1966 and joined the Forest Grove faculty as a math professor the following year. What followed was a dynasty.

In 23 seasons as head coach, Clock led Pacific to 18 Northwest Conference titles, including 16 in a row from 1970 to 1984, when the conference dropped the sport. His teams posted seven top-10 finishes at the NAIA National Tournament, peaking at fifth place in 1982.

He coached three individual national champions: Rick Franklin in 1978, Ed Ritt in 1982 and Chuck Ahsmuhs in 1988. Thirty-seven of his wrestlers earned NAIA All-American honors.

Clock stayed on as an assistant from 1988 to 2003, helping Pacific transition from the NAIA to NCAA Division III and win Great Lakes Region titles in 1999, 2000 and 2002. Across both eras, the National Wrestling Hall of Fame credits him with eight national champions and 77 All-Americans total.

He also helped launch Pacific's women's wrestling program in 2000 alongside Frank Johnson, raising all the necessary funds themselves. Two of their athletes reached the world stage: Sally Roberts placed third at the 2003 World Championships, and Tela O'Donnell competed on the first U.S. women's Olympic wrestling team in 2004.

Before his teaching career, Clock was a wrestler himself. He won the 1953 Oregon state heavyweight title at Newberg High School, then became a three-time Northwest Conference champion at Lewis & Clark. He earned his doctorate in mathematics from Oklahoma State University in 1967.

Clock retired from teaching at Pacific in 2002 with faculty emeritus status after 35 years. The university renamed its season-opening tournament the Mike Clock Open in 2003. By the time of his death, 11 wrestlers he coached had been inducted into Pacific's athletic hall of fame.

He is survived by his daughters, Kathryn Barlow and Mary; his sons, Thom and Paul; brothers Pat, Barry and Ken; and nine grandchildren. His wife, Carol, died in 1980.

Memorial services have not yet been announced, according to Pacific University.