Freddy Garcia
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- Title:
- Assistant Coach
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- Experience:
- Second Season
After serving as a graduate assistant for the past two seasons, Freddy Garcia will remain on staff for the 2017-18 season as an assistant coach.
Garcia helped the Vikings as they underwent a youth movement last season. Three true freshmen started every dual while seven of the 10 Vikings to compete at the Eastern Wrestling League Tournament were doing so for the first time in their career. Nick Corba earned an at-large berth to the 2017 NCAA Championships with Garcia’s assistance. Corba claimed two bonus-point wins at the national tournament, the first Viking to achieve that feat since 1995.
In his first season at CSU, Garcia helped a pair of wrestlers to NCAA Championship berths. Both Riley Shaw and Sam Wheeler reached the round of 16 at NCAA’s as each hit the 30-win mark for the year. Shaw won the Eastern Wrestling League title in his classification while the Vikings went 4-2 in dual EWL action.
Garcia is a recent graduate of fellow Eastern Wrestling League member Lock Haven, where he completed a stellar wrestling career that included over 100 career wins and three trips to the NCAA Division I National Championships. A Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Champion and three-time EWL runner-up, Garcia is also a counselor and clinician for the Rob Wallers All-American Wrestling Camps, working camps throughout several wrestling hotbeds in the U.S.
Garcia is a native of Donora, Pa., where he was an all-conference athlete in both wrestling and baseball at Ringgold High School.
