USMMA Picks Ilaria
Greg Ilaria has been named head wrestling coach the the Merchant Marine Academy. Ilaria spent the last three seasons as an assistant at Springfield College following his own wrestling career at The College of New Jersey where he was a 2x All-American. Earlier this summer, the Merchant Marine Academy posted a job opening for a head coach but made no announcement about the apparent vacancy. Since then, they have hired Ilaria to replace Tim Alger. USMMA returns all four of its national qualifiers from last season’s Centennial Conference championship team. Phil Greene (133), James Beshada (141), and Eric Vincent (197) return to defend their conference titles, and Dan Twito (149) was the Centennial wildcard. See the release below.