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Josh Zupancic

Josh Zupancic

Josh Zupancic is in his third season serving as the top assistant coach to Ben Stehura at Cleveland State University. He was announced as an addition to the staff on August 11, 2010.

Zupancic was only the third two-time All-American in Stanford wrestling history, earning the honor in his junior and senior seasons.

In 2006-07, he went 37-12 at 157 pounds and placed seventh at the NCAA Championships. He topped this performance in 2007-2008 when he racked up 39 victories and knocked off three ranked opponents in consecutive matches en route to a sixth place finish at the NCAA Championships.

His career record at Stanford was 120-34, making him the third winningest wrestler in program history when he graduated. Zupancic was one of just five Cardinal grapplers to earn 100 career victories, helped by his 47-5 record in dual meets.

The National Wrestling Coaches Association named him an Academic All-American in all four of his years as a student-athlete. In both 2005-06 and 2006-07, he was named to the National Wrestling Coaches Association All-Academic Team as he pursued his degree in American Studies. Stanford named him the team's Outstanding Scholar-Athlete Award winner after the 2006-07 campaign.

Prior to his outstanding career at Stanford, Zupancic was a four-time state finalist while attending perennial power Walsh Jesuit High School. As a junior in 2002, he won the state championship while helping Walsh to a second place finish in the Ohio High School Athletic Association Division II State Championships. The year before, he finished as the state runner-up at 112 pounds, helping Walsh to another second place finish. He was the runner-up at 103 pounds while Walsh captured the Division II title in 2000.

Zupancic returns to Northeast Ohio after two years of coaching club wrestling while a graduate student at Oklahoma. He also worked as a student-athlete career counselor at Oklahoma, and has seven years of experience as camp counselor and clinician at various wrestling camps and clinics.