Lehigh Adds Joseph to Coaching Staff

Lehigh announced today that two-time NCAA champion Vincenzo Joseph will join the Mountain Hawks coaching staff for the 2025-26 season. Joseph is currently the recruiting coordinator for North Carolina. He has served in that role from August of 2024. 

Before his stint at North Carolina, Joseph also served as the recruiting coordinator for Arizona State. He also was on Stanford’s staff for a year. 

Joseph wrestled collegiately at Penn State where he earned NCAA All-American honors three times and was tabbed an NWCA First-Team All-American after the 2020 national tournament was cancelled. 

Joseph burst onto the college wrestling scene with a national title during his redshirt freshman year. In the 2017 NCAA finals, Joseph stunned two-time champion Isaiah Martinez and pinned him for a title. A year later, Joseph met Martinez again in the finals and prevailed, 6-1. 

Despite winning a pair of national titles, Joseph never captured a Big Ten championship; however, he advanced to the finals on three occasions. 

Joseph’s career record in a Penn State singlet was 88-9. 

After participating in the 2020 Olympic Trials, Joseph seemed content focusing on collegiate coaching career. After the 2022 national tournament, Joseph resurfaced at the US Open and made the finals in the 79 kg weight class. Later that spring, he fell in a best-of-three finals to Chance Marsteller at the World Team Trials. 

Last year, Joseph won the Olympic Trials Last Chance Qualifier and had the opportunity to compete in his second Olympic Trials. 

Joseph will join the Lehigh staff before a promising 2025-26 campaign. The Mountain Hawks could unveil a lineup that includes three returning All-Americans and eight past NCAA qualifiers. 

Joseph returns to his home state - though on the opposite side of where he went to high school. He captured a pair of PIAA AAA state titles wrestling for Pittsburgh Central Catholic.