Gold Medal Wrestling Camps and Wrestling Club at Harvard University

STAFF

	Camp Director Jay Weiss Harvard University Head Coach. Coach Weiss was EIWA Coach of the Year in 1998 and 2001 and has elevated the Crimson to one of the top programs in the East. Prior to his arrival in Cambridge, no Harvard wrestling team had ever won an EIWA or Ivy League championship. Weiss orchestrated an amazing turnaround, quickly constructing a program whose teams perennially challenge for the top spot in the League. In 2004, Jesse Jantzen '04 became only the second Crimson Wrestler to win an NCAA Championship and first since 1938. Jesse was also named Outstanding Wrestler. Most recently (2007), Weiss' Harvard team came back with three All-Americans from the NCAA tournament: a first for Harvard University! In his tenure here in Cambridge, he has coached 15 NCAA All-Americans and 1 NCAA Champion.
	Granit Taropin Former Soviet National Coach. Two of Taropin's best known pupils are the Belaglasov twins, Sergie and Anatoly, Olympic Champions in Moscow and Seoul. Under the tutelage of Taropin, the two brothers won seven gold medals in European championships.
	Pat Owen Three-time Big 10 Place-winner Three-time NCAA Qualifier Three-time Academic All-American and a three-time Academic All-Big Ten recipient.
	Muzaffar Abdurakhmanov Three-time Uzbekistan National Champion Junior World Championships runner-up Two-time Junior College National Champion NCAA All-American (3rd Place) for American University