University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
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Coaching Staff

Head Coach Dave Malecek

Dave Malecek completed his first season as UW-La Crosse's head wrestling coach in 2006-07. He led the Eagles to a third-place finish at the 2007 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Championships and was named the NCAA Rookie Coach of the Year.

Malecek also guided UW-L to its 10th straight Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) title in 2007 and was selected the Mertz Mortorelli WIAC Coach of the Year. The Eagles finished 13-1 in duals in 2006-07.

Malecek served as the head assistant coach at Wartburg College (Iowa) since 2000, helping lead the Knights to three NCAA Division III Championships (2003, 2004, 2006). He was selected the NCAA Division III Assistant Coach of the Year in 2006. Wartburg also won Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) titles every season since his arrival on campus. The Knights had 11 national champions and 47 All-America selections since Malecek begin coaching in 2000.

Malecek was also Wartburg’s Wrestling Recruiting Coordinator, Summer Wrestling Camp Director and handled the upper weight classes for the Knights.

A four-time NCAA Division I qualifier at Northern Iowa University (1991-94), Malecek earned All-America accolades in 1994 with a fourth-place finish at 177-pounds. He served as the Panthers’ team captain in 1993 and 1994 and ranks seventh in career victories at Northern Iowa. Malecek earned his bachelor’s (1994) and master’s (2005) degrees from Northern Iowa.

He was a participant in the United States’ Olympic Wrestling Trials in 1992 and 1996. Malecek was also a two-time state champion at Osage (Iowa) High School.

Malecek spent two years as head coach at Xavier High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he recorded 31 dual victories. Xavier also had 10 state qualifiers and one state champion under Malecek’s guidance.

Along with his coaching responsibilities at Wartburg, Malecek has served as an instructor in the physical education department since 2001. He has also taught at Wright Elementary School in Cedar Rapids (1997-2000) and in the Aurelia, Iowa Schools (1994-96).

Mark Ironside captured two NCAA titles and four Big Ten titles for the University of Iowa, and was also a four-time All-American for the Hawkeyes. In 1998, he won the Dan Hodge Trophy, wrestling's equivalent to the Heisman Trophy, as the nation's top collegiate wrestler. Mark does commentary for Iowa wrestling meets on radio station KXIC in Iowa City. He won two state titles for Cedar Rapids Jefferson.

Tim Hartung , who has coaching experience at three different NCAA Division I title contending schools and owns an impressive competitive resume, was the first hire of Iowa State head coach Cael Sanderson when constructing his new staff. Hartung, who served as Sanderson’s training partner for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, has made a major ISU impact, including work with the upper weights.

Hartung’s contributions to Iowa State’s Big 12 championship and NCAA runner-up 2007 season cannot be understated. Hartung worked every day with 184-pounder Jake Varner, who finished his freshman season with a 29-7 record and a runner-up NCAA finish. Heavyweight freshman David Zabriskie exceeded all expectations, clinching Iowa State’s first outright conference team title in 25 years when he beat Oklahoma State’s Jared Rosholt in the league tournament’s final match.

Hartung’s success as a coach comes after a sterling collegiate and international career as a competitor. Hartung was a two-time national champion and three-time All-American at 197 pounds while wrestling for Minnesota from 1996-99. As a senior at Minnesota, Hartung posted an undefeated (39-0) season and became the first Gopher in 51 years to win back-to-back NCAA titles. He was named Big Ten Wrestler of the Year in 1999. Hartung ranks fifth for the most career wins in Gopher history with 133 and third in career pins with 48. He also holds the school record for consecutive falls with eight and is tied for fourth in career dual meet wins with 66. He ranks ninth in career win percentage at a .864 clip (133-21).

Internationally, Hartung was an alternate on the 2004 U.S. Olympic team. He was a 2002 World Team member, winning the U.S. Open that year.

Hartung was runner-up at the World Team Trials in 2003, placing third at the 2003 U.S. national meet, fourth at the 2001 U.S. national meet and finished seventh in 2000 at the U.S. Open, all in freestyle.

Hartung was a member of the Gopher staff for five seasons (1999-2004). His responsibilities included strength coordinator (1999-2000), marketing and promotions coordinator (2000-02), and development coordinator (2002-04). Minnesota won three Big Ten (2001-03) and two NCAA titles (2001-02) while he was on staff.

Hartung, a native of Durand, Wis., graduated with a B.S. in kinesiology with an emphasis on sports administration in 1999. He also received an M.E.D. with an emphasis in sports administration from Minnesota in 2002. Hartung married his wife Lindsey in August 2007.

Bart Chelesvig, a three-time All-American at Iowa, begins his 14th season as an assistant coach at Wisconsin. His responsibilities include working with the UW’s upper-weight wrestlers, while his off-mat duties include handling office operations.During his tenure at Wisconsin, Chelesvig has helped coach six Big Ten champions and 17 All-Americans, including the most recent pair of Tyler Turner (149 lbs.) and Craig Henning (157 lbs.).

Chelesvig has a long-time association with head coach Barry Davis. He was coached by Davis at the University of Iowa from 1987–92, where he compiled a 115-32 record in four years and placed third at the NCAA championships three consecutive times. Additionally, Chelesvig helped Iowa to four straight Big Ten titles and two national championships between 1988–92.

Chelesvig was a three-time state champion at Webster City (Iowa) High School and was undefeated his last three years. He was also a member of the 1986 Junior World Team and won the freestyle title at the 1987 USWF Junior Nationals. Chelesvig earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education from Iowa in 1992. He and his wife, Susie, were married in 2003 and live in Madison.

Joel Greenlee completed his 10th season as head coach of the University of Ohio Bobcat wrestling program in 2006-07 with more dual meet wins than in any of his previous nine years.

The Bobcats posted a 16-8 overall record in dual meets in 2006-07, besting the 15 wins Greenlee's 1999-2000 Bobcats totaled. The win was a vast improvement from the 11-11 overall record Ohio finished with the season before.

In 10 years as head coach, Greenlee has compiled a 116-79-4 (.593) overall record and a 29-21-1 (.578) mark in the Mid-American Conference. He was hired as an assistant/interim head coach in 1997-98 due to an illness of then-head coach Harry Houska. Greenlee was then named the full-time head coach before the 1998-99 season.

Under Greenlee's tutilege in 2006-07, sophomore Jake Frerichs earned a wildcard birth to national competition and redshirt freshman Jacob Ison won 31 matches and was named a second alternate at 165 pounds. Senior Marcus Adelman went 21-9 in 2006-07, including 13-2 in his final 15 matches, under Greenlee's watch. All-in-all, the Bobcats had eight wrestlers post winning records while four wrestlers took second or third place at the 2007 MAC Championship.

Greenlee's accomplishments during his first season at Ohio earned him the NWCA National Assistant-Coach-of-the-Year award in 1998. His 1997-98 team finished ninth at the NCAA Tournament - the Bobcats' best finish since 1973 - and won the regular-season MAC title with a 5-0 record in the conference. He coached Dwight Gardner (158) to the school's first individual national title since 1978 and guided Shawn Enright (134) to a second-place national finish.

Prior to coming to Ohio, Greenlee was an assistant coach at the University of Northern Iowa from 1989-97. While at Northern Iowa, the Panthers compiled a 70-58 record.

Greenlee also had a stellar wrestling career in his own right. While competing as a heavyweight at Northern Iowa, he was a two-time All-American, finishing second in 1989 and fourth in 1988. In 1989, Greenlee was champion at the prestigious Midlands Tournament and Midwest Championships and was named the Outstanding Wrestler at both meets. Greenlee still holds the highest winning percentage in school history with a 127-16-4 (.878) career record. He also holds the Panther records for dual victories (58) and dual victories in a season (20 in 1986-87).

Greenlee has also enjoyed success at the international level. He finished second at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in 1992 and was selected as a training partner for the Olympic Team. He won the Cerra Pelado Tournament in Cuba in 1993 and the Cuban All-Star Tournament in 1992. He placed third three times at the John E. du Post World Team Trials.

During his time at Northern Iowa, Greenlee was also the camp director for the Northern Iowa wrestling camps. He was assistant camp director for the Bruce Baumgartner Heavyweight Wrestling School from 1993-97.

He and his wife, Roxann, have an 10-year-old son, Walker, and a 8-year-old daughter, Madison.

Joe McFarland embarks on his ninth season as head coach for the University of Michigan wrestling program, where he has lifted the Maize and Blue to the upper tier of collegiate wrestling.
Since taking over the reigns in 1999, McFarland has helped mold Michigan into a highly-touted national contender, guiding the U-M wrestling squad to three Big Ten dual-meet championships and seven consecutive top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships under his leadership. He already ranks third on Michigan's head coaching career wins list under legendary head coach Cliff Keen and his own collegiate coach, Dale Bahr. In the U-M wrestling room, McFarland has led 17 different student-athletes to two NCAA individual titles, 32 All-America citations and 11 Big Ten individual crowns.

With his emphasis on academics, Michigan wrestlers have also earned numerous academic honors, including 23 distinctions by the National Wrestling Coaches Association and 49 by the Big Ten Conference. The Wolverines ranked fifth among the 2007 NWCA All-Academic teams with a combined GPA of 3.1441. U-M is the only program to place among the top 10 at the NCAA Championships and in the NWCA All-Academic standings in each of the last two seasons.

On the recruiting front, the University of Michigan has boasted classes ranked among the best in the nation in each of McFarland's seasons, ensuring the continued success of the U-M wrestling program for years to come. His 2007 contingent -- the Wolverines' current freshman class -- was ranked seventh by InterMat and combined for three national prep titles, 10 state titles, four Senior High School All-America citations and three Junior National All-America citations.

McFarland is the ninth coach to direct the wrestling program and moved to the top spot after working seven seasons as an assistant coach under Bahr. Since his return to Ann Arbor in 1992, McFarland has enjoyed considerable coaching recognition, including being named the 1994 National Wrestling Coaches Association Assistant Coach of the Year.

Formerly the head wrestling coach at Indiana University (1990-92), McFarland produced one of the most impressive first-year improvements in Big Ten Conference history when he guided the Hoosiers to a perfect 14-0 dual meet record in 1990, the program's first undefeated season since 1946. IU placed eighth at the NCAA Championships and finished runner-up at the Big Ten Championships. Indiana was also the only unbeaten team in NCAA Division I that year and reached a No. 5 national ranking in the final dual meet listing by the Amateur Wrestling News. McFarland produced three All-Americans and three Big Ten champions, and was named the 1990 Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year.

As a Wolverine wrestler (1981-82, 1984-85), McFarland compiled one of the most impressive careers in the program's history. His 166-24-4 career record ranks third to John Fisher (183 wins) and Otto Olson (175) while his 48 wins during the 1983-84 season are the most recorded by a Michigan wrestler in a single season. During McFarland's Michigan career, the Wolverines became one of the top teams in the Big Ten Conference, which is considered by many to be the toughest collegiate wrestling league in the country. Michigan finished among the top 25 at the NCAA Championships in each of McFarland's seasons. Serving as a two-time team captain in his final two seasons, McFarland helped lead the Wolverines to a fifth-place finish in his senior year (1985). McFarland put together a four-time All-America career under Coach Bahr, and was twice an NCAA finalist, placing second at the NCAA Championships in 1984 and '85. He finished fifth (1981) and sixth (1982) in his first two national championship appearances.

McFarland is one of only four Michigan wrestlers to earn All-America honors in each of his four seasons, and at the time of his accomplishment, was only the 27th wrestler in NCAA Division I wrestling history to achieve such distinction. His 18-7 career record is tied for third at U-M for most wins at the NCAA Championships. McFarland won the Big Ten crown in 1984, and reached the conference finals all four seasons. His 10-3 mark at the conference championship is tied for 10th all-time in U-M wrestling history. McFarland also won the prestigious Midlands Championship in 1982 and 1983.

After completing his Michigan eligibility, McFarland embarked on a successful international wrestling career. He was the silver medalist at the 1986 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. McFarland captured the 1987 Tblisi Tournament bronze medal before winning the 1988 World Cup Championship, where he defeated the Soviet Union's World Champion Hazar Isiev in the gold-medal match. McFarland was also named the Outstanding Wrestler of the 1988 USA-USSR dual meet in Orlando, Fla.

A graduate of North Olmstead High School, McFarland was a two-time Ohio state champion prior to his arrival in Ann Arbor. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1985. McFarland resides in Whitmore Lake with his wife, Linda.