Juniata College has named Josh Mangle as head coach of its men's and women's wrestling programs, the athletics department announced. The hire comes after Juniata announced in April that it would reestablish its men's wrestling program and launch a new women's team, bringing wrestling back to the Huntingdon, Pa., campus. Both programs are projected to carry rosters of 25-40 wrestlers and will begin competing in the Landmark Conference in the fall of 2027, with men's conference opponents including the University of Scranton, Elizabethtown College and Lycoming College, and Wilkes University competing against Juniata in both men's and women's wrestling.

Mangle comes to Juniata after serving as an assistant coach at Eastern University, where he helped the program through its inaugural season. The Eastern women's program earned Coaching Staff of the Year, Wrestler of the Year and Rookie of the Year honors that season, produced eight all-conference selections and the men added three all-conference selections of their own. Before Eastern, Mangle spent four seasons as an assistant at Alvernia University, where the men's team went 66-19. Prior to that, he spent 15 years with the Ursinus wrestling program. He began his college coaching career at Delaware Valley University and has served as interim head coach at Delaware Valley, twice at Ursinus and once at Alvernia, going a combined 29-10 in that role.

Across his coaching career, Mangle has guided wrestlers to national championships, Centennial Conference Championship placements and Middle Atlantic Conference Championship placements, while producing All-Americans, all-conference selections and NCAA Scholar All-Americans. Programs under his watch have been ranked in the national top 10 at multiple stops. In 2013, he coached the Division III All-Star International Team to victory at the Kalchev International Tournament and had wrestlers compete in the NWCA All-Star Classic in 2013 and 2015. He became a USA Wrestling National Leadership Bronze Level certified coach in 2015 and graduated from the NWCA Coaching Leadership Academy in 2013.

Mangle graduated from Delaware Valley College in 1998 with a degree in criminal justice administration. Among his first tasks at Juniata will be recruiting the program's first-ever women's class.