Johnny Cobb of Amarillo, Texas, has been a top coach at all levels in Texas and is active in USA Wrestling on the national level.

Cobb coached 2000 Olympic champion Brandon Slay, a Distinguished Member inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2016, in youth programs and at Tascosa High School, and coached 2020 Olympic champion and 2019 world champion Tamyra Mensah Stock in college at Wayland Baptist University and with the Titan Mercury Wrestling Club. Mensah Stock won a bronze medal at the World Championships in 2018, and is the first American wrestler, male or female, to win three gold medals at the Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix.

Cobb has mentored numerous champion athletes at all levels of the sport.

He started the first youth wrestling program in the Texas panhandle, the Maverick Boys Club, in 1971 and says that was the beginning of his lifelong commitment to wrestling and mentoring young people.

Cobb coached Tascosa High School from 1988-2008 and had 21 individual state champions and 58 wrestlers who were All-State. He was named Texas Coach of the Year twice and had 10 high school All-Americans.

After completing his career as a high school coach, Cobb was the first coach for Wayland Baptist University, which created both a men's and women's varsity program. Wayland Baptist became the first college wrestling team in the state of Texas after decades without a college program. He built the foundation for the program and has passed it on to the current coaching staff.

Among his athletes was Mensah Stock, a two-time WCWA women's college national champion, who won the 2016 Olympic Trials and competed in the 2017 World Championships for Team USA.

Cobb has become a coach with the Titan Mercury Wrestling Club, where he coaches Mensah Stock and other talented women wrestlers on the national and international level. His in-depth knowledge of wrestling, combined with an ability to motivate athletes with a positive approach to the sport, is continuing to make a difference in USA Wrestling's programs.