The 2024 Offseason Coaching Carousel (5/31/2024)

Not only is the coaching carousel moving at a rapid pace with excellent positions available, there are also plenty of very experienced coaches who are looking for a new home. Those high-quality coaches should make for more movement as they assume some of the open positions below or take an opening that doesn’t appear to be vacant to the public eye. 

This last week wasn’t quite as busy as others on the coaching front, but still there were some teams that made strong additions. At InterMat, we wrote about the hirings of Timmy McCall, Nate Jackson, and Gavin Hoffman. 

One recent hire that may have snuck under the radar and isn’t “technically” a collegiate hire is Navy’s Wrestling Club bringing in Peyton Walsh to lead their program. Walsh was a longtime standout on the Greco-Roman scene and was an Olympic Trials runner-up in 2020(1) at 77 kg. He also was a Pan-American champion that same year and made the US Open finals in 2018. 

Before hitting the Senior Greco circuit, Walsh wrestled at the Naval Academy and made the NCAA tournament on three occasions - the last time (2015) after winning an EIWA title. 

As far as openings go, we learned this week that Drexel is looking to fill multiple vacancies. 

There could be news soon regarding hires at Army West Point, Binghamton, George Mason, Stanford and perhaps more movement with the EIWA from additional schools. 

Speaking of recent hires, this morning we posted an interview with Campbell’s new assistant coach TJ Dudley. 

Offseason Coaching Movement

Binghamton: Louie DePrez - Assistant Coach (Binghamton athlete)

Brown: Micky Phillippi - Assistant Coach (Brown Director of Ops)

Buffalo: Donnie Vinson - Head Coach (Cornell Associate Head Coach)

Buffalo: Hunter Richard - Assistant Coach (Appalachian State Assistant Coach)

Campbell: TJ Dudley - Assistant Coach (Brown Assistant Coach)

Central Michigan: Ben Bennett (Central Michigan Associate Head Coach)

Cornell: Scottie Boykin (Air Force Assistant Coach)

Edinboro: AJ Schopp - Head Assistant Coach (Purdue Assistant Coach)

Lock Haven: Gavin Hoffman - Volunteer Assistant (Ohio State athlete)

Navy: Barry Davis - Assistant Coach

NC State: Zack Esposito - Associate Head Coach (USOPTC) 

Oklahoma State: David Taylor - Head Coach (NLWC Athlete)

Oklahoma State: Thomas Gilman - Assistant Coach (NLWC Athlete)

Oklahoma State: Jimmy Kennedy - Associate Head Coach (Penn State Assistant Coach)

Penn: Matt Valenti - Associate Head Coach (Penn athletic administration)

Penn State: Nick Lee - Assistant Coach (NLWC athlete)

Pittsburgh: Lou Rosselli - Assistant Coach

Princeton: Anthony Ashnault - Assistant Coach (NYC RTC athlete)

Princeton: Cody Brewer - Head Assistant Coach (Virginia Tech Assistant Coach)

Princeton: Nate Jackson (NJ RTC athlete)

Utah Valley: Adam Hall - Head Coach (NC State Associate Head Coach)

Utah Valley: Andrew Hochstrasser - Unannounced Role (Utah Club Coach)

Utah Valley: Timmy McCall - Assistant Coach

Virginia Tech: Zach Tanelli - Associate Head Coach (Columbia Head Coach)
 

Non-Coaching Roles

Oklahoma: Mark Hall - Director of Operations (Penn Assistant Coach)

Oklahoma State: Bryan Pearsall - Recruiting Coordinator (Penn Associate Head Coach)
 

RTC’s and Wrestling Clubs

Navy WC: Peyton Walsh

Tar Heel WC: Vincenzo Joseph (SKWC Athlete)
 

Current Openings

Air Force: Assistant Coach

Appalachian State: Assistant Coach (x2)

Army West Point: Assistant Coach

Binghamton: Assistant Coach

Buffalo: Assistant Coach

Campbell: Assistant Coach

Central Michigan: Assistant Coach

Columbia: Head Coach

Cornell: Volunteer Assistant

Davidson: Assistant Coach

Drexel: Assistant Coach (x2)

George Mason: Assistant Coach

Hofstra: Head Coach

Penn: Assistant Coach (x2)

Purdue: Assistant Coach

Stanford: Assistant Coach

Utah Valley: Assistant Coach

Wisconsin: Assistant Coach