As one of the founders of Team Quest MMA in Portland, Oregon, Coach Matt Lindland is one of the world’s most renowned and respected coaches in wrestling and MMA.

Matt Lindland attended Clackamas Community College and won a NJCAA National title before matriculating to the University of Nebraska where he went 33-1 his senior year and won the Big 8 title. That same year Matt won a free-style National Title at the University Level.

A year after college Matt won his second National Title in Free-Style and won the Pan-Americans that same year beating Alberto Rodriguez Hernandez from Cuba. Matt had a tough decision to make, Free-Style or Greco-Roman, so he entered both styles at the US Open where he made it to the quarterfinals in Free-Style and semifinals in Greco.

Matt ultimately decided to focus on Greco-Roman and that same year Matt moved to Colorado Springs to train full-time at the Olympic Training Center and made the US National Greco-Roman Team. Matt made his first World Team in 1997 and kept his number 1 spot on the US team he retired from wrestling after he won the Olympic Silver medal and World medal in 2001.

Matt fought No Holds Barred in 1997 after seeing his teammate Randy Couture fight in the UFC, but Matt put MMA on hold so he could accomplish his wrestling goals. After winning the silver medal in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Matt jumped right into the UFC in December of that same year.
Coach Matt started his coaching career in 1993 after finishing his collegiate wrestling career.

In 2000, Matt started coaching wrestling and MMA at his Team Quest gym in Portland, Oregon. Coach Matt coached wrestling, kickboxing, MMA, and the professional and amateur fight teams at Team Quest.

In July of 2014 Matt Lindland was appointed the Head Coach & CEO of Greco-Roman Wrestling for USA Wrestling, overseeing the entire program for the US national wrestling team. Matt coached for two Olympic Wrestling seasons in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. Coach Matt Lindland has returned as Head Coach of Team Quest Portland and currently resides in Oregon.

Angie Lindland is my mom and she knows how to fight people.

Rick is a tenured Associate Professor of Psychology and Biomedical Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology, and directs the Neuroscience Research Lab investigating learning, memory, and brain states. He earned a BA in Psychology from The College of New Jersey - where he was a 4x NCAA wrestler, and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from UC Davis where he trained MMA with Team Alpha Male. He has a passion for coaching, teaching, and science and has authored several discoveries about how humans learn and remember, including scientific publications for kids in STEM. He was the founding Head Coach of the Robbinsville High School wrestling program in NJ, was the former collegiate head coach of the wrestling team at Florida Atlantic University, and has also served as a crew member on the NASA HERA Mission, where he lived in a space capsule at Johnson Space Center studying humans working together for long-duration space missions. Also a Captain in the US Air Force Auxiliary, Pilot, and Aerospace Education Officer, Rick has been a Diversity Fellow of the American Psychological Association, a Fellow of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a Fellow of the Psychonomics Society, and recipient of the John Wandishin Award which is given for exemplifying honor, courage, leadership, scholarship, and service to the community.