Steve Toubman started wrestling in eighth grade, weighing only 80 pounds as a wiry 13 year old. At Conard High School, he placed third at the CIAC (Connecticut) State Tournament in the 98-pound weight class in 1972. In addition, he won the Connecticut Freestyle title at 108 pounds in 1973. A three-sport athlete at Conard, Steve also played soccer and goalie on the lacrosse team.

After high school, Steve matriculated at Amherst College where he wrestled for that highly successful Division III team under the guidance of Henry Littlefield for two years and then for two years under Tim Walsh, a 2005 Massachusetts Wrestling Hall of Fame inductee. At Amherst, Steve was a four-year starter, a three-time New England Tournament place-winner, and captain during his senior year.

While in graduate school at Northeastern and then during his two-year business career, Steve continued his involvement with wrestling, although on a limited basis. During that time, he volunteered with the MIT wrestling team and also helped prepare the Massachusetts freestyle wrestling squad for summer competition.

Steve joined the Noble and Greenough School faculty in the fall of 1981, where he inherited a wrestling program which had gone through 5 coaches in 5 years. With Steve’s stability, passion, and technical expertise, Nobles wrestlers earned two New England titles (Andrew Pritchard and Paul O’Boyle) and one National Prep title (Clift Georgaklis) in 1982. During those early years at Nobles, Steve competed actively in freestyle wrestling tournaments throughout New England, finally retiring from active competition at age 29. He also competed in two Maccabiah Trials, one in 1981 and the other in 1985. Steve was the President of the New England Independent School Wrestling Association in the late 1980s and also earned his USA Wrestling Silver Level Coaching Certificate in 2004. He coached youth wrestling clubs in Franklin, Dedham, and Natick. In addition, he worked at many wrestling camps in New England and Pennsylvania.

Steve introduced and administered the Nobles Wrestling Pinathon, from the late 1990s until 2016. This initiative raised roughly $50,000 during that time period for Campuses Against Cancer.

During Steve’s 38-year career coaching wrestling, Nobles wrestlers garnered 5 Prep National medals (1 champion), 54 New England medals (7 champs), and 23 Graves-Kelsey titles.

Some of Steve’s favorite years were when his son Dan (2013 New England runner-up) was a varsity wrestler, his daughter Sarah was one of the wrestling managers, and his wife Ellen was a captain's parent.

Below are words from a speech by Nobles Athletic Director Alex Gallagher in 2016, honoring Steve Toubman as he stepped away from head coaching after 35 years. “High School Wrestling is an incredible sport. It takes immense courage to walk out onto the mat and put it all on the line, face-to-face, with another young man or woman who wants to take you down and pin your shoulders to the mat. It takes heart and grit, but it also takes strong technical coaching. I believe that Mr. Toubman is one of the finest technical coaches that this school has ever seen. Every winter, kids who have never wrestled before make the choice to join his program and he honors their choice by teaching the sport with professionalism, patience, and dedication that have made him a model for countless other coaches to follow. Thirty-five years ago, Coach Toubman set out to positively impact the lives of student-athletes, using the sport that he loved to show them what it means to be organized, disciplined, hardworking, supportive, kind, and loving. Mr. Toubman has been a life-changing figure who countless former wrestlers refer to as one of the most important people they have ever met in their lives. I have known Steve Toubman since I was 15 years old. It is hard to put into words the impact that he has had on my life as a man, as a father, and as a coach and, therefore, I can say with great certainty that it has been one of the great privileges of my career to share these remarks about a man who very quietly went about becoming one of the greatest coaches in the 150 year history of this school.”