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Carl Perry Position: Assistant Coach Experience: Seventh Season

Former Illini and NCAA champion Carl Perry is beginning his seventh year as a member of the Illinois wrestling staff.

Perry, who was a four-year varsity starter for the Illini from 1996-2000, returned to his alma mater after one season as head coach at Yorkville High School.

Perry, a 2000 NCAA champion at 141 pounds, wrapped up his career as a two-time All-American and a two-time team captain. As a four-time NCAA qualifier, he consistently ranked among the top 10 at 141 pounds nationwide.

Perry earned his bachelor's degree in applied life studies in May 2001 with an emphasis in sport management.

He and his wife, Jamie, have a daughter, Breanna, and a son, Bryce. The family resides in Champaign.


Casey Brewster

Casey Brewster is entering his second season as the head coach of the Sacred Heart wrestling team. Brewster is a graduate of the University of West Virginia and holds a degree in Athletic Coaching Education. As a competitor at West Virginia, Brewster was the runner-up at the 2004 Eastern Wrestling League Tournament at 125 pounds and qualified for the NCAA Championships. He started his collegiate career at Edinboro before transferring to WVU. After his NCAA eligibility had expired, the NAIA granted him one more semester of eligibility. In this semester Brewster went on to realize his dream to be a collegiate All-American, accomplishing this feat in the 133 lb weight class.

While training with the Mountaineers and the Fighting Scotts, Brewster had the opportunity to train with high-caliber mentors including Zeke Jones (Pennsylvania), now US National Freestyle Head Coach, Lou Rosselli (Ohio State) and Craig Turnbull (WVU). While living in Morgantown, Brewster was a member of the Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club and finished his collegiate career with a record of 66-28.

Brewster is a native Californian and wrestled in the Sacramento Wrestling Association from the ages of five to nine. His family later moved to Nashville Tennessee where he was a four time place finisher, multiple state champion, and high school All-American.

Brewster started his collegiate coaching as a graduate assistant coach at his alma mater. He moved on to Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina to accept the assistant coach position. He remained there until he was hired as the assistant coach at %$*$%%%. From %$*$%%% Brewster came to Sacred Heart and took over the reigns of the wrestling team as the head coach. Brewster calls his position at Sacred Heart "an honor and a privilige."

Brewster works several Wrestling Camps throughout the country with an emphasis in the eastern states. He also worked as a clinician in California at the camp of his college wrestling coach at WVU, Zeke Jones as well as others.

Casey resides in Bridgeport with his wife Tonia. Together they look forward to building the wrestling program at SHU to highest level of collegiate wrestling.

Heath Eslinger

Coach Eslinger and his wife Brandi have three girls. Brookelyn age 2 and twin girls Madelyn and Keelyn that are 6 months old.

High School

State Champion: 1994 and 1995
Outstanding Wrestler of State Tournament in 1995
A part of Bradley Highs first team state championships as junior and senior in 1994 and 1995.

College

Attended University of Tennessee at Chattanooga from 1995-2000.
3x Southern Conference Champion
3x NCAA Qualifier
Outstanding Wrestler of the Southern Conference in 2000.
5th place at Midlands Invitational in 2000
3rd place at Midlands in 2003
All time career win leader with an overall record of 124-16.
Assistant coach at Bradley Central from 2000-2001. Assistant Coach at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga from 2001-2004 under Terry Brands.

Currently: Head Wrestling Coach at Cleveland High School.


Mark Shultz

Mark Philip Schultz (b. 1960) is a retired Olympic and World champion freestyle wrestler and a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. He is the brother of the late Dave Schultz, who also won a freestyle wrestling gold medal at the 1984 Olympics. Between them, the Schultz brothers won more NCAA, World, and Olympic titles than any American brother combination in history.

Schultz attended Palo Alto High, coached by Ed Hart and Chris Horpel. He only wrestled his senior year and ended up winning the California state championship (CIF). His coach said that his win could have been a result of wrestling in his brother's shadow.

Schultz won the 1984 Olympic Gold Medal in Freestyle Wrestling. He was also a 3-time NCAA Champion and 2-time World Champion. Schultz later competed in mixed martial arts. At UFC 9 on May 17, 1996, he defeated Gary Goodridge by TKO. He currently works for a masonry contracting company in Denver.


Lee Pritts

Lee Pritts Position: Assistant Coach Alma Mater: Eastern Michigan (1998)

Lee Pritts is in his second stint as an assistant wrestling coach at the University of Missouri. Pritts was an assistant for the Tigers for six seasons before leaving in 2004 to become an assistant at Old Dominion University, where he spent three seasons. Pritts' return at the start of the 2007-08 campaign was coupled with the addition of Shawn Charles and 2007 graduate and two-time defending 174 pound national champion Ben Askren as new Tiger assistants.

During his tenure at Old Dominion, Pritts helped the Monarchs send wrestlers to the NCAA Championships each season, totaling seven wrestlers in all. Pritts also helped Old Dominion earn back-to-back runner up honors at the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Conference Championships. In addition to the Monarchs' postseason accomplishments, Pritts also helped build two top-10 recruiting classes.

Pritts attended Eastern Michigan University, where he wrestled at 118 pounds. He was a two-time team captain and made three appearances in the NCAA Championships, earning All-America honors in 1996. In addition to his collegiate accomplishments, Pritts qualified for the 2000 Olympic Trials.

Pritts brings his wealth of mat and coaching experience to help coach the Tigers. In addition to coaching, Pritts also serves as Missouri's TigerStyle Camp coordinator.

Pritts has transitioned smoothly back into the Tiger staff, having already served as an assistant for six years. Pritts was also coached by Missouri Head Coach Brian Smith during his high school career at Western High School in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

Pritts' experience with the Tigers and wrestling should allow him to contribute significantly to a Missouri program that has had great success in recent years. Head Coach Brian Smith has called Pritts "one of the hardest working assistant coaches in the country," and that is something that Pritts will inevitably pass down to the Tiger wrestlers this season.
Pritts is married to the former Krista Kapeller and has one son, Briggs, age three, and daughter Kelbi Gracin born April 11, 2008.


Wade Schalles

One of the most exciting and spectacular athletes of his time, Wade Schalles would wrestle anyone, anytime, anywhere, at any weight from 150 to 180 pounds, with odds of 2 to 1 that he would win by a fall. Nor was he particular about the style. Schalles was a national champion, or an All-American, in folkstyle, Freestyle and Greco-Roman, and in the allied disciplines of sombo and judo. He earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as wrestling's all-time leader in victories with 821, and in falls with 530. Schalles also was renowned for defeating 36 national champions, pinning 17 of them, and defeating eight World titlists. Each total is considered a record. His collegiate career at Clarion University was limited by an unusual NCAA rule which barred freshman competitors from the national tournament not only for their freshman year, but also as seniors. Eligible only for the 1972 and '73 meets, he won both Division II and Division I twice, and was outstanding wrestler of both events as a sophomore. Schalles compiled a collegiate record of 153-5-1, and amassed a staggering 106 falls. He won the Pennsylvania State Conference title four times and was outstanding wrestler all four years. This followed a high school career in which he pinned 96 per cent of his opponents. He won a gold medal in the 1977 World University Games, pinning all six opponents, and another in the Tbilisi International, with five falls in six bouts. In both events, he was hailed as outstanding wrestler. He is known for creating and perfecting a radically different pinning hold which he named the "spladle." It best demonstrates the limber physique which prompted one writer to call him "Plastic Man." During and after his competitive days, he coached youth, collegiate and national teams. He is an author, a clinician and a top-flight collegiate referee. Because of his unique style, his emphasis on the fall, and for blending those elements into great success, Stephen Wade Schalles is honored as a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.