For the first 38 years of the school’s existence, Mona Shores had only one wrestling coach. Don Mosley’s record is one of incredible longevity and winning. Between 1962 and 2001, his teams racked up a 489-186-4 record, winning an amazing 72 percent of their matches. During that span, the Sailors dominated the city wrestling meet, earning 20 city titles.

A total of 86 of his grapplers qualified for the annual Michigan High School Athletic Association tournament, with 28 of those finishing in the top four at the state finals. Seventeen of his wrestlers are members of the Shores Century Club with 100-or-more career wins. During Mosley’s reign, the Sailors had more than 30 individual state place-winners and one state champion, Ken Luipakka (167) in 1978.

Well-known locally as the owner of Mosley’s Driving School, he stated that part of his coaching style was molded from playing center and noseguard at Muskegon Heights for Hall of Fame coach Okie Johnson. At Shores, Mosley also coached football for 10 years, serving as head football coach from 1968 to 1970. His 1968 gridders compiled an 8-1 mark, the best football season in school history.