Aaron Sieracki named 2015 USA Wrestling Women’s Coach of the Year
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by Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling
Aaron Sieracki, second from left, receives the Women's Coach of the Year Award from USA Wrestling president James Ravannack, wrestling legend Dan Gable and USA Wrestling Executive Director Rich Bender in Iowa City, Iowa. Photo by Tony Rotundo, Wrestlers Are Warriors.
Aaron Sieracki (Colorado Springs, Colo./U.S. Army WCAP) has been named 2015 Women's Coach of the Year by USA Wrestling. It is the first time that Sieracki has won this award.
Sieracki is a coach with the U.S. Army WCAP program, and works with the women wrestlers who are on the team. He is the personal coach of 2015 World bronze medalist Leigh Jaynes at 60 kg and 2015 World Team member Whitney Conder at 53 kg. Conder also added a 2015 Pan American Games gold medal under his guidance.
The U.S. Army was second in Div. II at 2015 U.S. Open in women’s wrestling. Sieracki works with the Army’s women wrestlers who train at Fort Carson, Colo., but also is often at the U.S. Olympic Training Center coaching athletes at their workouts.
He was a coach on the high school and youth level in the Colorado Springs community, prior to coaching full-time with the U.S. Army program. He was an assistant at Palmer Ridge High School, and worked with his brother Keith Sieracki with the Sieracki Mat Masters club program.
Sieracki was a top Greco-Roman wrestler on the national level for more than 15 years, competing first with the U.S. Air Force and then with the U.S. Army. Sieracki was second in the 2008 and 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. He was a 14-time All-American in Greco-Roman at the U.S. Open during his career, winning U.S. Open silver medals in 2009, 2012 and 2014. He was a placewinner for the USA at either the CISM Military World Championships or the CISM Military World Games five times. Sieracki won a gold medal at the 2009 Pan American Championships.
He competed at Lindenwood University, and was originally from Richland Center, Wis., where he was a two-time Wisconsin state high school champion.
PAST WOMEN'S COACH OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERS
2015 – Aaron Sieracki, Colorado Springs, Colo., U.S. Army WCAP
2014 – Afsoon Johnston, San Diego, Calif.
2013 – Archie Randall, Mustang, Okla., OKCU Gator Women’s RTC
2012 – Vladislav “Izzy” Izboinikov, Colorado Springs, Colo., USA Wrestling
2011 – Kevin Black, River Falls, Wis., New York AC
2010 – Keith Wilson, Colorado Springs, Colo., Sunkist Kids
2009 – Kevin Black, River Falls, Wis., New York AC
2008 - Tadaaki Hatta, Elyria, Ohio, New York AC
2007 - Troy Steiner, Corvallis, Ore.
2006 - Joe Corso, Metairie, La. ,Gator WC
2005 - Bill Scherr, Glenview, Ill., Sunkist Kids
2004 - Tricia Saunders, Phoenix, Ariz., Sunkist Kids
2003 - Townsend Saunders, Phoenix, Ariz., Sunkist Kids
2002 - Joe Corso, Des Moines, Iowa, Sunkist Kids
Aaron Sieracki (Colorado Springs, Colo./U.S. Army WCAP) has been named 2015 Women's Coach of the Year by USA Wrestling. It is the first time that Sieracki has won this award.
Sieracki is a coach with the U.S. Army WCAP program, and works with the women wrestlers who are on the team. He is the personal coach of 2015 World bronze medalist Leigh Jaynes at 60 kg and 2015 World Team member Whitney Conder at 53 kg. Conder also added a 2015 Pan American Games gold medal under his guidance.
The U.S. Army was second in Div. II at 2015 U.S. Open in women’s wrestling. Sieracki works with the Army’s women wrestlers who train at Fort Carson, Colo., but also is often at the U.S. Olympic Training Center coaching athletes at their workouts.
He was a coach on the high school and youth level in the Colorado Springs community, prior to coaching full-time with the U.S. Army program. He was an assistant at Palmer Ridge High School, and worked with his brother Keith Sieracki with the Sieracki Mat Masters club program.
Sieracki was a top Greco-Roman wrestler on the national level for more than 15 years, competing first with the U.S. Air Force and then with the U.S. Army. Sieracki was second in the 2008 and 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. He was a 14-time All-American in Greco-Roman at the U.S. Open during his career, winning U.S. Open silver medals in 2009, 2012 and 2014. He was a placewinner for the USA at either the CISM Military World Championships or the CISM Military World Games five times. Sieracki won a gold medal at the 2009 Pan American Championships.
He competed at Lindenwood University, and was originally from Richland Center, Wis., where he was a two-time Wisconsin state high school champion.
PAST WOMEN'S COACH OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERS
2015 – Aaron Sieracki, Colorado Springs, Colo., U.S. Army WCAP
2014 – Afsoon Johnston, San Diego, Calif.
2013 – Archie Randall, Mustang, Okla., OKCU Gator Women’s RTC
2012 – Vladislav “Izzy” Izboinikov, Colorado Springs, Colo., USA Wrestling
2011 – Kevin Black, River Falls, Wis., New York AC
2010 – Keith Wilson, Colorado Springs, Colo., Sunkist Kids
2009 – Kevin Black, River Falls, Wis., New York AC
2008 - Tadaaki Hatta, Elyria, Ohio, New York AC
2007 - Troy Steiner, Corvallis, Ore.
2006 - Joe Corso, Metairie, La. ,Gator WC
2005 - Bill Scherr, Glenview, Ill., Sunkist Kids
2004 - Tricia Saunders, Phoenix, Ariz., Sunkist Kids
2003 - Townsend Saunders, Phoenix, Ariz., Sunkist Kids
2002 - Joe Corso, Des Moines, Iowa, Sunkist Kids
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