Joe Seay
Freestyle Head Coach
Seay served as head coach of the United States freestyle teams which won World Team Titles in both 1993 and 1995. Seay led Team USA to the
1993 World Championships title in Toronto, Canada, and the 1995 World Championships title in Atlanta, Ga. The United States had four individual champions both years.
He also served as the head coach for the 1985 U.S. World Team, which placed third in the standings and featured two individual champions in
Budapest, Hungary.
He was the assistant coach for the 1992 U.S. Olympic freestyle wrestling team, which won six medals at the Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Seay also served on the coaching staff for the 1988 Olympic team.
Seay was the head coach of the 1990 Goodwill Games team, where the United States scored a historic victory over the Soviet Union in Seattle,
Wash. He also coached the United States to team titles at the 1986 and 1991 World Cups.
He was also the head coach of the 1995 Pan American Games team in Mar del Plata, Argentina, which won the team title and included seven
individual gold medalists.
He works as head coach with the Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club, based in Phoenix, Ariz., which has won the U.S. Nationals team championships for 13 straight years.
Seay was also a successful college coach. At Oklahoma State Univ., Seay won two NCAA Div. I team championships, while coaching the Cowboys between 1985-92.
Prior to that, he spent 12 years as head coach at Cal. State-Bakersfield, where he won seven NCAA Div. II team championships. He also coached on the high school level, where he had a 137-12-2 record at Bakersfield South High School (Calif.) over eight years.
Seay was a national Greco-Roman champion as an athlete, and was a nationally ranked wrestler in both freestyle and Greco-Roman. He
wrestled for Kansas State Univ., and was a state wrestling champion for Wellington High School in Kansas. He was born April 29, 1939 in Altus,
Okla.
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