CAREER & FAMILY
1971-1974 Seaside High School
   Taught Reading & Coached
1974-2005 Marshfield High School
  Taught Reading, Career Education, Speech,
  Geography, English & P.E.

Wayne was raised in Coquille, Oregon along with his sister, Kathleen, and brother, John, by their parents Wayne and Maxine Van Burger.  Wayne always knew he would be involved in education as a teacher and coach. After college he taught in Seaside for 3 years, knowing that he wanted to move closer to home. He was able to achieve that goal when he was hired by the Coos Bay School District.

Family means a lot to Wayne and he welcomed daughters Wendy ('75) and Dara ('77) to start the 6th generation of Van Burger's in Coos County. Wendy played basketball and Dara was on the cheerleading squad for Springfield High School. Wayne and Susanne met  when she moved to the area to teach in Bandon. They married in 1980 and two more Van Burger's joined the family. Ty ('84) and Lauren ('88).  Ty joined dad in the wrestling room achieving several honors himself: 4 year
state placer (a goal he set for himself). National High School Academic All American, and Oregon Classic Academic/Wrestling Award Winner, to name a few. Lauren also joined dad in the wrestling room to be his mat girl when she wasn't playing volleyball. She knows her way around a match, critiquing the moves and points.

Wayne retired from teaching in 2003 and from coaching in 2005. Susanne retired in 2005 after 27 years of teaching. She has and continues to support him in all his endeavors. Now, he is working on his second career, Beaver Hill Productions, making fishing films, hunting films, and corporate films for local and national companies.
 
CAREER TEACHING ACHIEVEMENTS
1974-1980 Successfully established a grant program,
   "Interdisciplinary Skills Lab". It became a "model
   program, combining a Tutorial, Reading, and Career
   Ed. Center.
1976 "Spin off, into the Next 100 Years" authored Career
   Ed. Book for the Interdisciplinary Skills Lab.
1980-1994 State mandate "Career Education":
   Established a career education model, which was
   recognized as one of the states promising practice
   programs.
Worked with the state department developing 15 Career
   Ed. Programs throughout the state.
1983 ESD Grant: Helped organize and develop K- 12
   Career Education handbook for Coos and Curry
   County.
1987 Selected "CIS Oregon Career Educator of the
   Year".
1988 Selected "CIS National Career Educator of the
   Year".
1988 "U.S. West Outstanding Teacher" award.
1990-2000 Worked with State Department's Special
   Task Forces on Career Education.
1992-1994 Developed MHS Reading program.
1990's Liaison Committee with SWOCC for 2+2
   Program.
2000 Established tutorial study program.
 
COACHING HISTORY & ACHIEVEMENTS:
1971-1974 Seaside, OR, assistant football coach
1971-1973 Seaside, OR, assistant wrestling coach.
1973-1974 Seaside, OR, Head wrestling coach.
1974-2005 MHS assistant football coach.
1974-1983 MHS assistant wrestling coach.
1984-2005 MHS Head wrestling coach.
1986 MHS Cultural Exchange, Sister City delegation,
   Choshi, Japan, wrestling team leader/coach.
1992 Oregon Cultural Exchange Team Japan, team
   leader/coach.
1994 Oregon Cultural Exchange Team Alaska, team
   leader/coach.
1997 Oregon Cadet National Team Coach.
1998 U.S. Olympic Training Center, Colorado Springs,
   Colorado, one of 5 wrestling coaches in the nation
   selected to work and train with the Olympic Greco
   Team.
1999 Oregon Cadet National Team Coach, team leader
   (Greco).
Concord International Greco Championship
    Team Oregon/Champions, team leader.
2001 Micronesia Federation Games, selected as OIC
   representative and coach of Micronesian Olympic
   National Team on the Island of Yap.
2002 Oregon Cadet National Dual Meet Team Coach.
   Greco Team placed 2nd and Freestyle Team placed
   4th at Nationals in Greeley, CO.
2005 Inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame
    through the Oregon Chapter.
Coached first Oregon vs California state champion duals.
Established Oregon Beach Wrestling.
Established first state beach wrestling team in the
   nation.
Established First State and National Beach Wrestling
   Tournament in the United States.
Member of the National committee to establish Beach
   Wrestling in the United States.
Tournament Director of the first National & State Beach
   Wrestling event held at Bullard's State Park, Bandon,
   Oregon.
2006 Initiated and helped establish the first National
   & State Beach Wrestling Association joining the
   Oregon Wrestling Association.
2006-2008 Oregon Beach Wrestling State Director &
   Oregon Wrestling Association Board Member.
District 5 AAAA "Coach of the Year" 7 times.

1984-2005 WRESTLING TEAM ACHIEVEMENTS:

Dual Meet Records:
Overall Dual Meet Record. 238 wins, 72 loses, 6 ties, 77% winning average.
League Dual Meet Record, 150 wins, 25 loses, 3 ties, 86% winning average
League Dual Meet Champions, 10 times
League Dual Meet Runners Ups, 10 times
District Dual Meet Champions/Runner ups
20/21 years
Tournament Team Finishes:
Overall Team Tournament Champions, 49 times
Overall Team Tournament Runners Ups, 23 times
District Tournament Team Finishes:
Champions. 9 times
Runner Up. 7 times
Third, 2 times
Fourth, 3 times
State Tournament Team Finishes:
Top ten, 6 times
Individual District Placers:
District Placers (top 6), 336
State Qualifiers (top 3), 184
District Champions, 58
District Runner ups, 71
Individual State & National Placers in
Folk, Freestyle & Greco:
State Champions. I 1
State Runner ups, 22
State Placers. 128
Junior National All Americans, I I
Oregon Cultural Exchange Team Members. 6
Individual 4 Year State Placers:
2000-2003 Ty Van Burger
2002-2005 Justin McGinness, Andrew Dewater
Individual "Triple Crown Champion":
2005 Andrew Dewater
Individual Academic Awards:
National High School Academic All Americans. 7
Oregon Classic Academic/Wrestling Award Winners, 6