{"id":78,"date":"2013-05-29T17:51:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T17:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/laa\/?p=78"},"modified":"2013-05-29T17:51:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T17:51:48","slug":"coachs-corner-lennie-zelesky-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/laa\/2013\/05\/29\/coachs-corner-lennie-zelesky-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Lennie Zelesky, Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Q:\u00a0<\/strong> What role does academics play in your program?
\n<\/strong>A:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>It is essential to the athlete\u2019s future career.\u00a0 Academics take priority over athletics.<\/p>\n

Q:\u00a0 As a coach, how do you help ensure your players are getting the most out of their experience as a student-athlete?\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/strong>A:\u00a0\u00a0 We constantly stress the importance of academics during practice and the time we have with our athletes. We have an academic standard, and when our student-athletes\u2019 academic performance falls below that standard, we work with them to schedule study hall hours and counseling sessions\u00a0from our academic advisors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Q:\u00a0\u00a0Briefly describe your coaching experience and\u00a0name two coaching highlights during your career.
\n<\/strong>A:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I began coaching at the University of Iowa where I was on staff with legendary coach Dan Gable for four years.\u00a0 I was in the program for a total of\u00a012 years, learning the Iowa system that has been so successful over the years. My wife and I then moved to Alaska, where I coached at the high school level for eight years.\u00a0 I later accepted the assistant coaching job at Indiana University and spent two years coaching and acquiring my masters degree\u00a0in Slavic languages.\u00a0 I spent one year at Culver Military Prep in Indiana before being hired at UC, Davis. \u00a0I was the head coach at UC Davis, for\u00a010 years before budget caused the program to be dropped. My road then led me to California Baptist University where I currently serve as the head wrestling coach.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There are many moments in my career that made a huge impact on my coaching. In 2007, I coached a walk-on wrestler, Dereck Moore, who went on to win the NCAA Division I Title and was named Outstanding Wrestler of the Year. Another impactful moment was when 5,400 people attended UC Davis to watch our team wrestle against Iowa University.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Q:\u00a0\u00a0You have accomplished so much during your time at CBU, what do you look forward to the most in 2013?<\/strong>\u00a0
\nA:\u00a0\u00a0 Competing for the Division II Team Title and individual titles per weight class.<\/p>\n

Q:\u00a0 Who do you admire the most in life?
\n<\/strong>A:\u00a0 Steve Barrett, who was an NCAA Champion at Oklahoma State and a great international wrestler.\u00a0 He became a missionary and has spent 13 years in Russia heading the Samaritans Purse branch, as well as being a missionary to the huge wrestling community of Russia. He has had a tremendous impact throughout the country. It seems that club coaches across the world know and have tremendous respect for him.\u00a0 He had spent the past four years in southern Russia, primarily in the Muslim areas, until he was kicked out of the country.\u00a0 He now serves in Mongolia and has provided the opportunity for several of my wrestlers to serve alongside him last year in Moldova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q:\u00a0 What role does academics play in your program? A:\u00a0\u00a0 It is essential to the athlete\u2019s future career.\u00a0 Academics take priority over athletics. Q:\u00a0 As a coach, how do you help ensure your players are getting the most out of their experience as a student-athlete?\u00a0\u00a0 A:\u00a0\u00a0 We constantly stress the importance of academics during practice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,16,24,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/laa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/laa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/laa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/laa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/laa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/laa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/laa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/laa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/laa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}