College notebook: Cal Poly hires Jon Sioredas as next wrestling coach
Cal Poly has hired Jon Sioredas as the next head coach of the Mustangs’ wrestling program, the school announced Tuesday morning.
Sioredas spent the past two seasons as the head coach at Grand Canyon. He replaces Brendan Buckley, who resigned in March after five seasons leading the Mustangs.
Sioredas brings 10 years of coaching experience to San Luis Obispo. Before his two-year stint at Grand Canyon, Sioredas was an assistant at his alma mater, Tennessee at Chattanooga. He also spent six years as an assistant coach at Old Dominion.
Sioredas has coached five top-25 teams, four NCAA All-Americans and helped sign six top-20 recruiting classes.
“I am honored and excited to lead a program with such rich tradition,” Sioredas said in a release put out by the school. “… Our expectations at Cal Poly are simple: to graduate with a meaningful degree, have a reputation of excellence on campus and in the community and to produce NCAA All-Americans and national champions.”
During his collegiate wrestling career at Chattanooga, Sioredas earned All-American honors in 2005 after finishing fifth in the 165-pound weight class at the NCAA Championships. He was a two-time Southern Conference champion and 2005 SoCon Wrestler of the Year and Tournament MVP.
Woolf honored by Big West
Cal Poly senior Nick Woolf was selected as the Big West Men’s Track Athlete of the Week following his standout performance at the 32nd annual Stanford Invitational over the weekend.
The Norco native delivered a career-best performance in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, finishing second in his heat in 8 minutes, 48.03 seconds. That marked was a small improvement from the time he recorded at the NCAA West Regional meet last spring (8:48.91).
Woolf, a two-time Big West champion in the 3,000 steeplechase, now ranks sixth in Cal Poly history in the event. His time is No. 1 among Big West competitors this season, No. 7 in the West Region and No. 11 nationally.
Ex-Mustang baseball player, coach dies at 87
Former Cal Poly baseball player and assistant coach Dick Morrow died Monday night at the age of 87.
Morrow graduated from Cal Poly in 1955 and played third base for the Mustangs in the early 1950s. He was an assistant coach under Howie O’Daniels in 1956 and later served as an administrative assistant for Cal Poly’s baseball program in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Morrow served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War in 1953 and 1954, playing baseball for the Mustangs prior to and after his military service. He earned second-team All-California Collegiate Athletic Association honors.
After college, Morrow went on to become head baseball and basketball coach at San Luis Obispo High from 1961-65 and served as a counselor at the school for 25 years before retiring in 1987.
Morrow is survived by his wife, Nancy.
This story was originally published April 5, 2016 at 4:08 PM with the headline "College notebook: Cal Poly hires Jon Sioredas as next wrestling coach."