Fresno State Athletics
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- Associate Athletics Director for Internal Operations
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In his 18th year at Fresno State, serving as associate athletics director for internal operations. Kriebs oversees Fresno State’s operations, including events, facilities, information technology, video services, equipment, and department fleet, has had oversight of contracts with Nike, Pepsi and serves as the sport supervisor for multiple teams.
Kriebs is responsible for NCAA and MWC tournament bidding and management. He successfully brought the 2004 WAC basketball and three NCAA basketball Regionals to Fresno. He also has worked with football scheduling and the Mountain West Conference on all conference sport scheduling.
He serves as the liaison for campus planning, parking, kinesiology and the concession operations. During his tenure, he spearheaded Fresno State's transition into the $103 million Save Mart Center, coordinating construction and facility projects including the locker rooms, equipment and training rooms and the Bulldog Shop. Recently, he has overseen the construction of a 7.5 million state-of-the-art aquatics venue, lacrosse and soccer field, softball indoor batting cages and the planning for the new sports medicine center, completed in the fall of 2013.
Kriebs came to Fresno State after serving as an assistant athletics director at Southwest Missouri State (Missouri State) from 1994-99. While there, he oversaw nine Olympic sports as well as budgeting, personnel and scheduling.
Prior to his position at SMS, Kriebs was the Bears' wrestling head coach from 1989-94. He was highly successful in that capacity, earning Midwest Regional Coach of the Year honors in 1994 and guiding the program's first ever Division I All-American in any sport. In all, he coached 12 NCAA qualifiers and broke 15 school records.
Kriebs' coaching career began at the University of Northern Iowa, where he served as an assistant from 1984-89 and helped guide the Panthers to five top 10 finishes. Coach a multiple all-Americans, an NCAA finalist; four wrestlers competed in the East West All-Star Meet, team was Midwest Regional Champions all five years
The Dubuque, Iowa, native is a 1984 graduate of Northern Iowa, where he was a two-time All-American wrestler. As a senior, he was the nation's No. 1 ranked heavyweight with a career record of 103-33-2. He qualified for the NCAA's all four years, two-time Midwest Regional Champion and was picked to wrestle in the prestigious All-Star Wrestling Showcase.
A Dubuque Wahlert High School graduate, 1976-1979, Kriebs’ Lettered in Wrestling, Football, Track 51 out of 53 matches as a heavyweight wrestler 44 of those matches resulted in pins, 3rd in State Tournament Junior Year, State Heavyweight Champion 1979, picked to the Iowa All-Star Wrestling Showcase, in dual matches 26-1-1 third place his Junior year and 25-1 first, Senior year.
Kriebs has a daughter, Jordan, and a son, Jack.
