The 2025 Offseason Coaching Carousel (8/8/2025)

Two weeks ago, we had a flurry of action on the coaching carousel front. This week, not so much. We already discussed Penn’s newest hire, Lennox Wolak. One move we haven’t mentioned yet is Bellarmine bringing in All-American Brayton Lee.

Lee was a 2021 NCAA sixth-place finisher for Minnesota. As a freshman in 2019-20, Lee won the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational and was fourth at the Big Ten Championships. He was set to compete at nationals as the seventh seed; however, the tournament was cancelled. After the season, Lee was named a first-team All-American by the NWCA.

The 2021-22 season ended prematurely for Lee due to an injury. His 2022-23 campaign never really got going and he struggled to a 4-9 record.

Lee finished his career back in his home state of Indiana, wrestling for the Hoosiers. At Indiana, Lee finished fifth in the Big Ten and qualified for the NCAA Tournament for a third time.

Lee joins a Bellarmine program that had their first SoCon champion and DI national qualifier(s) in 2025. Having an assistant coach of Lee’s caliber will surely raise the level of talent in the room and get more exposure on the recruiting trail.

While you might look at this article for the new coaching hires, we also have DI positions that we’ve been notified as being open. There were a couple of new additions to that portion of the article in this update.

Central Michigan has a vacancy as Colin Heffernan has left the staff. CMU has traditionally kept hires in the Chippewa family, so we’ll see if any of their recent grads get a call.

We also received word that Eddie Klimara went back home to Illinois. That leaves a vacancy on VMI’s staff.

California Baptist is also seeking an assistant. As does Mercyhurst, which recently made the move from DII to DI.

The other vacancies were posted in previous editions of this feature.
 

Coaching Changes

Army West Point: Troy Nickerson (Head Coach)

Bellarmine: Brayton Lee (Assistant Coach)

Binghamton: Brevin Cassella (Assistant Coach)

Brown: Tyler Grayson (Assistant Coach)

Campbell: TJ Dudley (Head Coach)

Illinois: Eric Schultz (Assistant Coach)

Kent State: Fred Garcia (Assistant Coach)

Kent State: Josh Moore (Head Coach)

Kent State: Devin Schroder (Assistant Coach)

Lock Haven: Gavin Hoffman (Assistant Coach)

Lock Haven: Brock Mauller (Assistant Coach)

Long Island: Jay Nivison (Assistant Coach)

Mercyhurst: Jimmy Overhiser (Head Coach)

Missouri: Keegan O’Toole (Assistant Coach)

NC State: Malik McDonald (Assistant Coach)

North Dakota State: Willie Miklus (Assistant Coach)

Northern Colorado: Teyon Ware (Head Coach)

Oklahoma State: Kevin Ward (Assistant Coach)

Penn: Matt Valenti (Head Coach)

Penn: Lennox Wolak (Assistant Coach)

Princeton: Ryan Wolfe (Assistant Coach)

Purdue: Matt Ramos (Assistant Coach)
 

RTC/Club

Lee Roper (Cowboy RTC)
 

Open

Appalachian State: Assistant Coach

Binghamton: Assistant Coach

Binghamton: Head Coach

California Baptist: Assistant Coach

Campbell: Assistant Coach (x2)

Central Michigan: Assistant Coach

Drexel: Assistant Coach

George Mason: Assistant Coach

Lehigh: Assistant Coach

Little Rock: Assistant Coach

Maryland: Assistant Coach

Mercyhurst: Assistant Coach

Michigan State: Assistant Coach

Northern Colorado: Assistant Coach

Northern Iowa: Assistant Coach

Oklahoma: Assistant Coach

Oregon State: Assistant Coach

VMI: Assistant Coach