The 2024 Offseason Coaching Carousel (9/17/2024)

Even though we’re about a month and a half away from the start of the collegiate wrestling season, there still has been plenty of recent movement on the coaching front. Additionally, there are still some teams that will need to round out their coaching staffs, so move changes will occur before November. 

Some of the recent addition include California Baptist completing an excellent staff with NCAA champions Mark Munoz and Nathan Tomasello. 

Yesterday, Hofstra announced that they’ve hired 2021 national runner-up Jesse Dellavecchia who is someone that is well-thought of as a young coaching prospect. 

Also on Monday, Campbell announced the hiring of former Purdue All-American Jake Patacsil. Patacsil has previously coached on the DI level at Duke and Hofstra. 

Friday night, Columbia revealed what was a poorly-kept secret in their hiring of 2024 Olympic bronze medalist Sebastian Rivera. Rivera worked closely with new Lions head coach Donny Pritzlaff, so that hire made a lot of sense. 

Offseason Coaching Movement

Air Force: Elroy Perkin (California Baptist Assistant Coach)

Appalachian State: Paul Bianchi (Minnesota State Assistant Coach)

Appalachian State: Max Maylor (Wisconsin athlete)

Army West Point: Taylor LaMont (USA Wrestling)

Binghamton: Louie DePrez - Assistant Coach (Binghamton athlete)

Binghamton: Sam Schuyler - Assistant Coach (Iowa State Graduate Assistant)

Bloomsburg: John Stutzman - Associate Head Coach (Buffalo Head Coach)

Bloomsburg: Mitch Moore - Assistant Coach (Rutgers athlete)

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

Bucknell: Dan Neff - Assistant Coach (Navy Assistant Coach)

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

Buffalo: Andrew Dunn - Assistant Coach (North Carolina Director of Operations)

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

California Baptist: Mark Munoz - Assistant Coach

California Baptist: Nathan Tomasello - Assistant Coach

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

Campbell: Jake Patacsil - Assistant Coach (Manchester University volunteer assistant)

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

Columbia: Donny Pritzlaff (Rutgers Associate Head Coach)

Columbia: Sebastian Rivera (RTC athlete)

Cornell: Scottie Boykin (Air Force Assistant Coach)

Cornell: David McFadden (Drexel Assistant Coach)

Davidson: Alan Clothier - Assistant Coach (Buffalo Assistant Coach)

Drexel: Jimmy Overhiser - Assistant Coach (Tarleton State Assistant Coach)

Drexel: Chad Walsh - Assistant Coach (Columbia Assistant Coach)

Duke: Erkin Tadzhimetov - Assistant Coach (Utah Valley Assistant Coach)

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

Gardner-Webb: Keaton Kluever - Assistant Coach (Hofstra athlete)

George Mason: Dean Heil - Head Assistant Coach

Hofstra: Jamie Franco - Head Coach (Columbia Assistant Coach)

Hofstra: Jesse Dellavecchia - Assistant Coach (Long Island assistant coach)

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

Maryland: Ethan Laird - Assistant Coach (DMV RTC athlete)

Navy: Barry Davis - Assistant Coach

Navy: Ty Eustice - Assistant Coach (Davidson Assistant Coach)

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

North Dakota State: Matt Malcom - Assistant Coach (Bellevue East HS)

North Dakota State: Scott Mattingly - Head Assistant Coach (Gardner-Webb Associate Head Coach)

Northern Illinois: McGwire Midkiff - Assistant Coach

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: Darian Cruz - Assistant Coach (LVWC athlete)

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

Penn: Doug Zapf - Assistant Coach (PRTC athlete)

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)

Rutgers: Mikey Labriola - assistant coach (LVWC athlete)

SIU Edwardsville: Austin Murphy - Graduate Assistant (Campbell athlete)

Stanford: Hayden Hidlay (North Dakota State Assistant Coach)

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

Utah Valley: Andrew Hochstrasser - Assistant Coach (Utah Club Coach)

Utah Valley: Joey Lavallee - Assistant Coach (LWVC RTC athlete)

Utah Valley: Timmy McCall - Assistant Coach

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

Wisconsin: Tony Cassioppi - Assistant Coach (HWC athlete)

Non-Coaching Roles

California Baptist: Noah Hardy - Director of Operations

Maryland: Cole Matthews - Special Assistant to the Head Coach

Missouri: Jarrett Jacques - Recruiting Coordinator

Navy: Ben Barton - Director of Operations

Nebraska: Brandon Bailey - Director of Operations (Nebraska Wesleyan head coach)

North Carolina: Vincenzo Joseph - Recruiting Coordinator (SKWC Athlete)

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

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

Oregon State: Kate Gillett - Director of Operations

RTC’s and Wrestling Clubs

Navy WC: Peyton Walsh

Nittany Lion WC: Zain Retherford (NLWC Athlete)

Ohio RTC: Kollin Moore (Ohio RTC Athlete)

Ohio RTC: Coleman Scott (Oklahoma State Associate Head Coach)
 

Current Openings

Central Michigan: Assistant Coach

George Mason: Assistant Coach

Long Island: Assistant Coach

Minnesota: Assistant Coach

Purdue: Assistant Coach