October
12, 2005
Release courtesy of Darren Miller, Cornell College sports information
director
MOUNT
VERNON , IOWA . . . Mike Duroe, head coach of the 2005
U.S. Freestyle World Team and head coach of the University of
Iowa Hawkeye Wrestling Club since 2003, has been named interim
head wrestling coach at Cornell College.
“We’re
pleased to have someone of Mike’s caliber available and
able to join us on this interim basis,” Cornell athletics
director Tina Hill said. “We have an exciting group of
wrestlers anxious to get the season started and we’re
very happy to have Mike’s skills and qualifications leading
our program.”
Duroe
replaces Drew Pariano, who resigned in September to become an
assistant coach at Northwestern University.
Duroe, a native of Charles City, has been head coach at Northern
Michigan University, an assistant at the University of Pennsylvania
and head coach of the Northwestern University Wildcat Wrestling
Club. He was a member of the coaching staff for the Pan American
Games (2003) and the Olympic Games (2004).
At
Northern Michigan from 1980-84, Duroe compiled a record of 82-27
with 23 All-Americans and two NCAA champions. For two years
he was in charge of the Northwestern Wildcat Wrestling Club
before leading New Trier (Ill.) High School from 1986-98. He
was named Illinois High School Athletic Association regional
coach of the year four times. From 1998-2001 Duroe was national
resident coach at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. He was the
head assistant coach at the University of Pennsylvania from
2001-03 before joining the Hawkeye Wrestling Club in 2003.
“I have extremely high expectations for this program,”
Duroe said. “My goals are always to win, and I’ll
work tirelessly to make this program better. I’m fired
up about these kids, and my job will be to instill in them that
they can achieve greater things.”
Cornell
has won 43 conference championships with 57 NCAA All-Americans,
eight individual national champions, seven Olympians and one
NCAA national team championship. The Rams are in a rebuilding
phase going 6-12 last season. Their last winning season (10-5)
was in 1995-96 when they won the Midwest Conference championship.
Cornell’s 2005-06 preseason roster includes two seniors,
10 sophomores and 14 freshmen.
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