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Rich Hasenfus |
Head Coach of Wrestling [email protected] 413-597-3573 |
Rich Hasenfus, an 18-year coaching veteran in intercollegiate
wrestling, succeeds Dan DiCnzo as the head coach of the Williams
program beginning in the fall of 2010. Hasenfus has spent the last
13 at Norwich University and previously coached at Harvard and
Wesleyan.
Two years ago, Hasenfus spearheaded a fundraising initiative that
saved the wrestling program at Norwich after the administration had
decided to eliminate the program due to lack of funding.
While at Norwich, Hasenfus coached 52 conference placers, nine
conference champions, 16 conference finalists, 15 NCAA qualifiers,
two All-Americans, 11 Scholar All-Americans and had two wrestlers
named Outstanding Wrestler of the New England Conference (NEC). In
addition, he was named NEC Coach of the year in 1998.
“We are thrilled to bring a wrestling coach of Rich’s
experience and level of success to Williams,” Sheehy said.
“The program is in terrific hands as we move forward. Having
been at Harvard, Wesleyan and most recently Norwich, Rich is well
acquainted with the challenge of being a student-athlete at a small
liberal arts college. We welcome Rich, his wife Jennifer and their
two daughters to our community.”
Hasenfus has several ties with Williams wrestling dating back to
the time Roger Caron was the head coach of the Ephs and Hasenfus
was an assistant coach at Harvard. Caron would bring his Eph team,
which included New England Collegiate Wrestling Hall of Famer
Jamaal Pollock, to the Crimson’s facilities to work out and
Hasenfus would join them. He remained acquainted with the program
through the coaching tenures of Scott Lewis, Mike Whalen, Rafael
Vega and DiCenzo.
“This is a great opportunity, and I’m very excited to
be back at one of the top schools in the country,” Hasenfus
said. “I’ve been fortunate in my career to have coached
at some of the finest institutions in the country and I’m
obviously aware of Williams’ outstanding academic reputation
— and athletic reputation.”
Hasenfus inherits a Williams team that captured the NEWA
championship in both 2009 and 2010 — the first two NEWA
championships in the Ephs history – and returns three New
England finalists and two NCAA qualifiers.
“The Williams program has obviously had a lot of success
over the last three years,” Hasenfus said. “I’m
looking forward to raising the bar and maintaining the high level
of excellence that Williams has ascended to.”
Hasenfus graduated from Springfield College in 1989 with a B.S. in
business management.
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Scott Honecker |
Assistant Coach of Wrestling [email protected] 413-597-4721 |
Scott Honecker begins his first season as the assistant coach for wrestling after spending the previous six years as the Director of the Greenville Wrestling Club and the head coach of JH Rose High School in Greenville, North Carolina.
Scott also served as coach of the North Carolina National Team, focusing his efforts on the top freestyle and greco-roman athletes in the state.
A native of East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Scott was a member of Ithaca College’s wrestling team and holds a B.S. in education from East Carolina University.
