Jason Christenson received the first Bob Siddens High School Coaching Excellence Award. The award is given to an Iowa high school wrestling coach who exhibits the high standards that Bob Siddens set during his legendary coaching career. Siddens coached West Waterloo to 11 state team titles and a 327-26 dual meet record. Christenson has been the head wrestling coach at Southeast Polk High School since 2001. He led his team to a second place finish at the 3A Iowa High School State Wrestling Championships in 2012, which was the first team trophy at the traditional state tournament in program history. His team won the 3A state tournament in 2013. Christenson has also served as Iowa’s junior director for USA Wrestling since 2002. He was named USA Wrestling’s Developmental Coach of the Year in 2007.

Jason had been a head coach for 29 years. Six years at CMB from 1991-1997, four years at Oskaloosa from 1997-2001, and 19 years at Southeast Polk from 2001-2020. His dual meet record is 480-106-6. His 2019-20 season was 20-0. Jason's teams were 12x District Champs, 6 runner ups. Under his guidance his teams won the state tournament four times, three times were runner ups, one time 3rd and two times 4th. Five times his team won the State dual championships, two times they were runner ups, tow times they were third place, and two times they were fourth place.

Jason had 173 State Qualifiers and 119 of them were place winners. Of those he had 24 State Champions, 21-2nd place, 17-3rd place, 15-4th place, 12-5th place, 13-6th place, 10-7th place, and 7-8th place finishers.