Case Western Reserve University is seeking applicants for the position of Instructor of Physical Education and Assistant Wrestling Coach.
Position Overview
We are seeking a highly motivated and knowledgeable individual to join our team as an Instructor of Physical Education and Assistant Wrestling Coach. As an Instructor of Physical Education, you will contribute to the growth and achievement of many CWRU students through PE curriculum and instruction. As an Assistant Coach, you will play a pivotal role in assisting the Head Coach in all aspects of team management, player development, game preparation, and program success.
This is a full-time, 10-month faculty position with a competitive salary and excellent fringe benefits.
The Associate Head Women’s Wrestling Coaching Instructor collaborates with the Head Men and Women’s Wrestling Coaching Instructor in providing support for the organization of the program and implementation of meet and practice plans. This includes, but is not limited to communication with athletes, preparation of facilities, distribution and care of equipment, scouting opponents, and film breakdown. The Associate Head Women’s Wrestling Coaching Instructor will provide support for the players’ academic success and track academic progress as needed. The Associate Head Women’s Wrestling Coaching Instructor facilitates communication with several constituents, which include faculty, academic advisors, assistant deans, and parents. Internally, the Associate Head Women’s Wrestling Coaching Instructor works with the Equipment and Facilities staff, Athletic Trainers, and Assistant ADs when necessary.
The Associate Head Women’s Wrestling Coaching Instructor supports the Head Men and Women’s Wrestling Coaching Instructor to provide coaching instruction and administrative support to other coaches and administrative staff while ensuring compliance with all related governing bodies including the NCAA, OAC Conference and institutional regulations. The Associate Head Women’s Wrestling Coaching Instructor will also have direct responsibilities for the coordination of recruitment of prospective student athletes and supervise graduate assistants and part time coaches as assigned.
Ithaca College has posted their head women’s coach position and is seeking applicants. Apply Here.
Job Summary:
The head coach will lead and direct all aspects of the competitive intercollegiate sport to include coaching and teaching effective strategy, technique and training, recruitment of qualified student-athletes, and teaching of courses in PALS and/or carrying out assigned administrative responsibilities within the Intercollegiate Athletics department. The head coach is responsible for ensuring compliance with NCAA, Conference, and Ithaca College rules and regulations, establishing appropriate competitive and developmental goals and objectives for each season. The head coach will be involved with some aspects of alumni relations within their sport and will support fundraising efforts for special initiatives in their program or the department of athletics.
Brandon Bradley has stepped down as head coach at Nebraska Wesleyan to become the Director of Operations at the University of Nebraska. Bradley started the program at Nebraska Wesleyan and has been the head coach at the school for the past nine seasons. He had previously coached at Ferrum and UW-Whitewater. At Nebraska Wesleyan, he coached one All-American and four NWCA Scholar All-Americans.
Matt Gentry has been elevated from assistant coach to head coach at the University of Chicago. Gentry replaces Leo Kocher who retired this spring after 45 years at the university. Gentry had been a full-time assistant with the program since 2022 and had served in a part-time role the previous season. Gentry was an NCAA champion for Stanford in 2004 and competed in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics for Canada. He also spent five seasons on staff at Stanford during his competitive career. He will take over a team that finished 5th in the Upper Midwest Region with seven regional placewinners.
CHICAGO – University of Chicago Director of Athletics and Recreation Angie Torain announced today the hiring of Matt Gentry as the Maroons new head wrestling coach. Gentry is no stranger to the program, having served as a part-time assistant coach before being elevated to a full-time assistant coach with the program in July of 2022.
“I am thrilled to have Matt join us as the head men’s wrestling coach” stated Torain. “Matt is an accomplished wrestler and brings a wealth of knowledge and a focus on the student-athlete experience. He is taking over a program that has great tradition and success. We are excited to watch the program excel under his leadership.”
McDaniel College is searching for a full-time assistant head women’s wrestling coach. The Green Terror are set to begin competition in women’s wrestling this fall. See the link below for the job description and to apply.
Pankil Chander has stepped down as head coach at Penn College after two seasons to take another coaching position. He coached the team to its first ever winning dual meet record as an NCAA institution and first ever NCAA qualifier. He had previously coached at Springfield College and Gettysburg College before taking his first head coaching job at Penn College for the 2022-2023 season. The Wildcats joined the AMCC as an associate member in 2023 and finished as the conference runner-up. Penn College has begun a search for his replacement.
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Pankil Chander is stepping down as Penn College’s Head Wrestling Coach to accept another full-time coaching opportunity.
Penn College has begun a national search for Chander’s replacement.
“I’m grateful for the lessons, relationships, and opportunities that came with being at the helm of Penn College Wrestling,” Chander said. “I cherished the process of hard work it took with our student-athletes, coaches, and community to grow this program in every category – it could not have happened without the buy-in they displayed in my vision and system.”
The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford has appointed Zach Altman as its new head wrestling coach, marking the third head coach in the program’s history. Altman, previously an assistant coach at Alma College, was also an NCAA qualifier at Adrian. He replaces Terry Schwab, who served as interim head coach following the departure of Blake Heim to Frostburg State University.
BRADFORD, PA. – The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford has named Zach Altman as the university’s head wrestling coach, the third head coach in the program’s history.
“I am pleased to announce the hiring of Zach Altman as our new wrestling coach,” said Athletic Director Bret Butler. “He is a motivated coach, with a background of success that will be instrumental in helping our program continue to grow.”
Brett Robbins has resigned as head men’s and women’s wrestling coach at Illinois Wesleyan, the Bloomington, Illinois, school announced Thursday. Robbins restarted the team after a 40 year hiatus and coached the Titans through their first season back on the mat in 2023-2024. Illinois Wesleyan had most recently competed in 183. The head coach position is currently posted on the IWU website.
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – After helping to rebuild the Illinois Wesleyan University wrestling program, Brett Robbins announced he will be stepping down as the men’s and women’s head wrestling coach, Thursday, July 18.
“This has been an incredibly tough decision, but it is one that is in the best interest of my wife and kids,” Robbins shared. “Having the opportunity to come back home to Bloomington and be a part of Titan wrestling has been incredible. From working with exceptional student-athletes, a great support staff, and the most supportive administration I have been around in my career I have learned how special Illinois Wesleyan is. My family has become big Titan fans over the past year and will continue to cheer on all the IWU sports teams from afar.”
Eight wrestlers were named to the 2023-2024 College Sports Communicators Academic All-America Division At-Large team. These wrestlers initially made the All-District team announced last month. Gage Linahon of Central College, Patrick McGraw of John Carroll, and Charlie Stuhl of Augsburg were First Team honorees. Stuhl was also on the First Team last year, while Linahon and McGraw were on the Second Team. Tyler Kim of Augsburg was the sole wrestler on the Second Team, while Mike Glynn of RIT, Elijah Hunt of Concordia-Moorhead, Gavin Layman of Ohio Northern, and Zane Mulder of Wartburg made the Third Team.
First Team honorees Linahon (197), McGraw (157), and Stuhl (149) all qualified for the 2024 NCAA Championships. Second teamer Kim was the 285 lbs. national champion. On the Third Team, Glynn was 8th at 157, Mulder was 2nd at 174, and Layman qualified at 184, while Hunt was 8th at the Upper Midwest region at 165.
North Central is searching for a full-time Assistant Men’s and Women’s Wrestling Coach. Apply Here.
The primary purpose of the Assistant Men’s and Women’s Wrestling Coach is to help establish, recruit for, organize, and run highly competitive men’s and women’s wrestling programs, recognized nationally both athletically and academically, consistent with the student-athlete philosophy of Division III, which generates College and community enthusiasm and support.
Description of Key Responsibilities Note that all functions described below must be performed, and it is normally the responsibility of the individual in this position to perform them and/or see that they are performed. Functions are categorized as essential and marginal so that consideration can be given to accommodating a person with a disability by reassigning one or more marginal functions if it is practical for said function(s) to be performed by other employees(s).
Assist the head coaches develop, recruit, and administer highly competitive men’s and women’s wrestling programs, consistent with the student-athlete philosophy of Division III, which generates College and community enthusiasm and support. Assist with administrative and coaching activities within the program.
Assist with the coordination of the recruiting efforts of the men’s and women’s wrestling programs with those of the admission office; maintain a competitive program (initially club and eventually varsity) through recruiting efforts and strategies. Develop a successful team recruiting strategy; visit high schools to meet with recruits; call, e-mail, text, and write prospects and coaches; record recruiting action. Maintain active communication with the admission staff through phone, in-person and electronic means.
Supervise the graduate assistant coaches for the men’s and women’s wrestling programs. Assign the recruiting duties and territories for each GA with appropriate follow-up meetings on a regular basis. Set recruiting target numbers for each GA in collaboration with the head men’s and women’s wrestling coaches.
Assist with the development and retention program for the men’s and women’s wrestling programs in conjunction with the dean of admission and financial aid, the dean of students and director of student success. Help develop individual and team academic and community strengths.
Actively encourage leadership and scholarship among student-athletes. Help monitor the academic progress of all the athletes on the teams, in connection with the director of student success, assistant athletic director, and the senior director of athletics. Adhere to all compliance and eligibility rules and regulations. Participate in the department’s leadership and scholarship programs when available.
Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, is set to add men’s and women’s wrestling teams. The school of around 550 full-time undergraduates has not yet announced the addition of wrestling, but they are advertising the head coaching positions on their employment website and the NCAA Job Market. Spalding currently offers 17 sports, and their baseball team qualified for the last two NCAA tournaments. They compete in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Other SLIAC schools with wrestling include Blackburn, Eureka, Fontbonne (until 2025), Lyon (starting in 2025), and Westminster.
Former Oswego Laker wrestler and coach Troy Seymour has moved west along Lake Ontario to take over as head coach at Brockport. He replaces Sam Recco who coached the team during the 2023 and 2024 seasons. Seymour graduated from Oswego in 2019 and moved directly into a coaching role. He has spent the past five seasons on the bench as an assistant to Mike Howard. As a competitor, Seymour was an NCAA qualifier in 2018, placed four times in the Mideast Regional, and won exactly 100 matches at Oswego after transferring in from NC State.
2025 Regional Proposal sent to coaches – yellow pins are schools that should be competing in 2026
Prior to 2013, qualification for the NCAA DIII wrestling championships happened at the conference level. Each qualifying tournament was allocated a number of qualifiers based on a formula that included the size of the event (teams and wrestlers) and the performance of the qualifiers from that tournament in the most recent NCAA tournaments. For events with 11-20 qualifiers, the winner of each weight qualified automatically and the coaches selected the others. Events with 21-30 qualifiers took the top two automatically, and events with 31 or more took the top three automatically. Wildcard selections could come from any weight, so each weight at the NCAA tournament could have a different number of entries.
For two years immediately prior to 2013, the number of qualifiers was increased from 160 to 170. The qualifying system and wildcard selections continued as usual, but the final 10 entries were chosen using a formula that ensured each weight had at least 16 wrestlers and included some historical performance data.
For the 2013 season, the regional system was implemented for the first time. There were six regions (Northeast, East, Mideast, Midwest, Central, and West), and the top three wrestlers at each weight qualified for the championships. There were no wildcards. There was also no mechanism in place to keep the number of teams in each region close to equal. By the final year of this set of regions, the West Region had 11 teams while three other regions had 19 teams each. Each still qualified the top three. The West Region also looked like this:
The NCAA Division III wrestling committee tried to fix this for the 2017 season, but their proposal was rejected. Read more about what happened here and here. The regions did change, however, for the 2018 season, and those regions were used (with minor tweaks as teams were added) from 2018-2024. One key aspect of the new regions was a requirement to keep the size of every region within three teams of every other region. Conferences were also permitted to request that all teams from that conference be placed in the same region.
For the 2025 season, the number of qualifiers has been increased from 180 to 210, and a seventh region will be added. This is a welcome change, as there will be 126 teams this season with more coming in 2026. The requirement to keep conferences together has been scrapped along with the requirement to keep region sizes within three teams. The proposed regional alignment recently sent to coaches already has one region with 20 teams and another with 15. This proposal is not final, as it must pass the NCAA Management Council later this month and Presidents Council early in August. The Division III Championships committee has accepted the regional proposal and supports granting an exception to NCAA bylaw 31.3.4.3:
31.3.4.3 Regional Alignments. All members of a conference shall be placed in the same region for evaluation purposes, unless the Championships Committee has granted an exception. Members of those conferences granted an exception shall be placed in their natural geographical regions for evaluation purposes.
See the map at the top for a general idea of what the regions could look like, but keep in mind that these are not final. There will be seven regions this winter, but they might not look like what you see above.
After three seasons as a graduate assistant and assistant coach, Grant Zamin has been promoted to head coach of the North Central men’s wrestling team. He steps into the role vacated by Zach Cook who returned to UW-La Crosse, his alma mater, as an assistant coach. Zamin spent this past season as an assistant for both the men’s and women’s teams at North Central and will continue as an assistant with the women.
Zamin graduated from UW-La Crosse in 2021. He finished 8th in the 2019 NCAA Championships and was the top seed at 157 lbs. in the canceled 2020 championships. He joined North Central after graduation and was part of a coaching staff that led the team to a 4th place finish in 2023 and 8th place finish this past season.
The College Sports Communicators Academic All-District® Men’s At-Large Team has been released, honoring athletes who have excelled in competition and in the classroom. Prior to 2023, far fewer athletes were named to the All-District team, and the list included what sport each athlete plays. Starting last year, the number of athletes was greatly expanded (12 wrestlers in 2022, 80+ in 2024), and the list no longer tells the reader which sport. I will list as many of the wrestlers as I can below. Please leave a comment if someone is on the linked list of all honorees but isn’t in this post. Athletes with an asterisk next to their names have advanced to the next round and will be considered for Academic All-America honors.
Zachary Platte Adrian College Max Honiss Albion College Peyton Brooks Albion College Owen McDaniel Albion College Blake Ilges Alfred State Colleg Elijah Moshenek Alfred State College Tyler Demory Alma College Tyler Kim* Augsburg University Seth Goetzinger* Augsburg University Charlie Stuhl* Augsburg University Jacob Badger Augustana College Doug Byrne* Baldwin Wallace University Art Martinez Case Western Reserve University Calvin Cai Case Western Reserve University Sam West* Central College Gage Linahon* Central College Jared Voss Coe College Gabe Zierden* Concordia-Moorhead Troy Mock Elmhurst University Ethan Fragoso Ferrum College Matthew Beyer* Ithaca College Patrick McGraw* John Carroll University Jake Hoffmann Johns Hopkins University Jakob Jarvis Linfield University Julian Ortiz Linfield University Eric Kinkaid* Loras College Eli Crum Lycoming College Cooper Gilham Lycoming College Logan Bartlett Lycoming College Romeo Tsai McDaniel College Asa Brunk Messiah University Seth Littrell Nebraska Wesleyan University Nathaniel Philion New England College Chris DeRosa New England College Cooper Pontelandolfo* New York University Casey Aikman North Central College Thoren Berg Norwich University Adam Myers Ohio Northern University Teagan Hendricks Ohio Northern University Gavin Layman* Ohio Northern University Tyler Bodovetz* Ohio Wesleyan University Mike Glynn III* RIT Mac Cafurello* Roanoke College Ben Gilbertson Saint John’s University (Minn.) Gianni Manginelli* Springfield College Joel Martsinovsky Stevens Institute of Technology Stefan Major* Stevens Institute of Technology Kyle Klein SUNY Cortland Anderson Klosner SUNY Oneonta Tyler Rossini SUNY Oswego Reid Colella The College of New Jersey James Romaine The College of New Jersey Tyler Herrema* The University of Olivet Mitchell Reynolds The University of Olivet Ramiro Guerrero The University of Olivet Joseph Langeman Trine University Tyler Thurston University of Dubuque Daniel Kosinski University of Scranton Jake Craig University of Southern Maine Colby Frost* University of Southern Maine James Johnson University of the Ozarks Airamis Mendoza University of the Ozarks Hayden Rofkhar University of the Ozarks Tristan Massie University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Connor Collins University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Marcus Orlandoni University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Jagger Clapsadle Ursinus College Franco Mazza Ursinus College David Cushman UW-Platteville Gavin Bradley* VTSU Castleton James Day Wabash College Joe Pins Wartburg College Hunter Swedish Washington & Jefferson College John Santowski Washington and Lee University Evan Lindner Washington and Lee University Brendan Johnston Wheaton College (IL) Cameron Butka* Wilkes University Caleb Seyfried Williams College Tanner Thatcher Worcester Polytechnic Institute
University of Lynchburg is bringing men’s wrestling back to campus for the 2025-2026 season after a forty year hiatus. The team will compete in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference and has begun the search for a head coach. The team will train at the nearby Crosswhite Athletic Club which will have dedicated locker rooms and training space for the Hornets.
Lynchburg previously sponsored the sport from the 1960s to the 1980s before discontinuing the program in 1984. They will join fellow ODAC full members Roanoke, Washington and Lee, Averett, Shenandoah, and Randolph (starting this year) along with associate members Southern Virginia and Greensboro to make an eight-team conference when they begin competition in 2025. (Ferrum is currently in the ODAC but will have left for Division II for the 2025-2026 season)
Dustin Porter has been promoted to head coach at Hiram after spending the past two seasons as the top assistant at the northeast Ohio school. He replaces Andy Vogel who coached the team since its rebirth in 2020
Porter previously coached at Lake Erie College, Tiffin University, and Gardner-Webb University. He competed for Gardner-Webb as well and was a four-time NCAA Division I qualifier for the Runnin’ Bulldogs. He continued to compete after college and qualified for the 2011 World Team Trials in Freestyle.
Hiram will join the PAC this season and will compete with St. Vincent, Thiel, Washington & Jefferson, and Waynesburg. The rest of Hiram’s athletic teams will follow the wrestlers into the PAC in 2025.
On a personal note, I am happy to have Coach Porter take over for me at Hiram. I am sure he will do as good a job as head coach as he did as my assistant the past two seasons. I have moved to Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, where my wife Janet started her new job today as the Director of the Murray Library at our alma mater Messiah University. My plans are still evolving, but you can expect d3wrestle.com to continue.
The NCAA governance structure has approved a plan to increase the size of the NCAA Championships field from 180 to 210 for the 2024-2025 season. To accomplish this, a seventh region will be added. Wrestlers must still place in the top three of the region to qualify for the championships.
The Division III Wrestling Committee will finalize a proposal for regional alignment by May 31st. The Championships Committee, Management Council, and Presidents Council will vote on the proposal later in the summer. Coaches should receive a draft of the proposal by the end of June.
Averett University Athletics is seeking a highly motivated individual to serve as the Wrestling Graduate Assistant Coach.
The assistant will be responsible for assisting in all aspects of the Division III programs including, but not limited to, day-to-day operations; scheduling of contests; recruitment and retention of quality student- athletes; fiscal planning; donor, alumni, and community relations.
The successful candidate must be able to develop positive relationships with faculty, staff, students, media, alumni, parents and sponsors while interacting successfully with department personnel and the University Community.
Minimum qualifications include collegiate playing experience, knowledge and commitment to following NCAA, ODAC, and University rules and regulations.
A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and acceptance into a Master’s Program at Averett University are required.
This position has a start date of July 1, 2024 and will remain open until filled. Graduates and future graduates will be given consideration for the position. Interested persons should send a cover letter, resume and references IN ONE DOCUMENT to wresgacoachsearch@averett.edu
