Franklin Community RTC Wednesday Paul Rademacher, Indiana Tech head woman's coach. 6-7:30 pm

[Coach Tonte]

This Wednesday we are excited to have Coach Rademacher here for RTC.  Practice will be 6-7:30 pm and enter thru door 21.

 

Paul Rademacher is entering his third year with the Indiana Tech Department of Athletics and embarking on his second season of competition (2021-22) as the head women's wrestling coach, of which he was named the inaugural coach of the program on April 8, 2019.

During the Warriors first season he navigated the team through the COVID-19 pandemic with a 2-6 mark in dual action while taking fourth at the Mid-South Conference Championships and 14th at the NAIA National Invitational. Tech had two student-athletes, Sam Snow and Tehani Soares, garner NAIA All-American honors with fourth-place results in their respective weight classes while the Warriors finished the year ranked the year ranked 14th in the NAIA Coaches' Top 25 Poll and rose as high as eighth in the rankings (Jan. 28, 2021). Four student-athletes, Alyssa Schuller, Charmayne DeLong, Snow and Soraes, also earned All-Conference honors following the MSC Championships.
 
A former wrestler at Oregon State University, Rademacher comes to Tech following a two-year stint at Southern Oregon University the Associate Head Coach for the women’s wrestling team. During his two years with the Raiders he went 14-14 and led the team to an eighth place finish at the first-ever NAIA National Invitational this past March and a 12^th-place performance at the Women’s College Wrestling Association (WCWA) Championships in 2018. He mentored six All-Americans during his time in Ashland.
 
Prior to his time at SOU, Rademacher served as the head coach for the boys and girls wrestling teams at Henley High School (Ore.) for two seasons and was in charge of Mount Vernon High School (Wash.) before that. he had 40 wrestlers place during his time at the prep ranks while four became state champions under his tutelage, while he recorded two top-four finishes in the Oregon State Athletic Association (OSAA) Tournament.
 
A 1999 graduate of Chiloquin High School, Rademacher competed from 1999-2003 at Oregon State, where he named to the Pac-10 All-Academic Second Team as a senior. He continued to compete post-collegiately, and in 2014 placed second in the Veteran’s Greco Roman Division B 76-kilogram class and third in the Veteran’s Freestyle Division B 76-kilogram class. He was a quarterfinalist in the 2014 US Open Freestyles at 74-kilograms and won the 2012 Washington State Tournament Greco-Roman in the 85-kilogram division.
 
Rademacher is a USA Wrestling Bronze Certified Coach and was the head coach of the Oregon Junior National Team from 2015-18. He served as a wildland firefighter from 2000-15 at Baker River IHC was a member of the U.S. Forest Service in Washington.
 
He received his Master’s Degree in Teaching – Science from Western Governors University in 2017 and graduated from OSU with a Bachelor’s Degree in Exercise and Sports Science with a concentration in Fitness Management. Rademacher and his wife, Gretchen, have been married since 2004.

 

 

[kylefellure]

Great opportunity to get ready for Freestyle/Greco state tonight with Coach Rademacher.

 

Practice will be 6-7:30 pm and enter thru door 21.