Wrestling
- Title:
- Volunteer Assistant Coach
- Email:
- Mike.Kosoy@oregonstate.edu
In Kosoy’s first season in 2020-21 as an assistant, Oregon State went 4-5 in duals that included wins over Pac-12 foes Cal Poly and Little Rock.
OSU finished second at the Pac-12 Championships with 123.0 team points, just 15 points behind first-place Arizona State. Kosoy helped lead Devan Turner (133) and Grant Willits (141) to their second individual Pac-12 Championship titles. He supported in Hunter Willits (157), Ryan Reyes (184), and J.J. Dixon (197) all earning a runner-up finish at the Pac-12 Championships. Brandon Kaylor (125) also earned a top-three finish, third-place, at the Pac-12 Championships.
Six wrestlers -- Kaylor, Turner, Grant Willits, Hunter Willits, Reyes, and Dixon -- qualified for the 2021 NCAA Wrestling Championships in the first season with Kosoy on staff. Beaver wrestlers posted a combined overall record of 88-80 (.524) and 44-46 (.489) in duals. In 2021, OSU went 51-45 in matches decided by decision and 23-16 in major decision matches.
“I’m very pleased to be adding Mike to my staff,” Pendleton said. His first year at NC State, as a freshman, he had a brand new head coach, Pat Popolizio, come in and restart the program. He has first-hand knowledge of what building a sustainable culture looks like. When I was going through the hiring process here at OSU I would find myself asking him a lot of questions about what that process was like for student-athletes.”“Mike has shown that he’s invaluable part of a program, and as our relationship has grown over the past couple years at ASU I knew he was exactly what I was looking for in a coaching staff member. I can’t wait to watch him grow as a coach.”
Kosoy’s hiring is subject to all University hiring protocols.
Kosoy, a letterwinner from 2013-17 at NC State, has spent the past two seasons at the Regional Training Center at Arizona State.
The heavyweight won 79 career matches at NC State, which is tied for 19th all-time. A native of Boca Raton, Fla., he was an NCAA qualifier in 2017.
Kosoy joins Pendleton’s staff in its first year at Oregon State. He joins assistant coaches Nate Engel and Isaiah Martinez.
