Greco-Roman star Ellis Coleman joins Illinois RTC
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by Illinois Regional Training Center
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Illinois RTC has added another U.S. Greco-Roman star in three-time Senior World Team member and 2012 Olympian Ellis Coleman, who originally hails from Oak Park, Ill.
An athlete at the U.S. Army WCAP in Colorado Springs, Colo., Coleman will split his time between Colorado and Illinois.
Coleman joins Isaiah Martinez (74KG FS), Zane Richards (57KG FS), Jesse Delgado (57 KG FS), Travis Rice (63KG GR), Nick Dardanes (65KG GR) and Max Nowry (55KG GR) on the IRTC senior-level roster.
Ellis Coleman
- 2012 Olympian
- 3x World Team Member
- 2x World Junior bronze medalist
- 5x US Open Champion
- 10th 2018 Senior World Championships
"I am from Illinois and it is an honor to represent my home state. Bryan Medlin coaches there and my Greco-Roman success started under him. There’s nothing better than getting help from my first Greco coach who knows all about me and helped me start down the path I am on today. I think I still contribute my success now to him because what I was good at then I am still good at now. It has made me consistent on an international level. It has been a long time since I have been able to represent my home state and it is an honor."
-- Ellis Coleman
“I grew into coaching with Ellis. He is a great example of how much your effort and ethics effect your outcome in this sport. He is still one of the hardest, if not THE hardest, worker I have ever been around. And in a sport that prides itself on hard work that is really saying something. He will be a great mentor for our guys, and the young Illinois athletes, because he is walking example of what is capable if you wrestle and live your life with absolute grit and determination. I am extremely excited to help him in any way possible finish his career with a world and Olympic medal.”
-- Bryan Medlin (Head IRTC Coach)
