Lennie Zalesky has been named as the new head wrestling coach at Cal Poly Humboldt.
Cal Poly Humboldt is a D-II college in Arcata, California that competes in the California Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAA).
Zalesky had previously coached in D-I at Cal Baptist and UC Davis.
Lenny Zalesky was a member of four NCAA national championship teams (1979-82) under Dan Gable at the University of Iowa. Zalesky was a three-time Big Ten champion (1980-82). He placed fourth in 1980 and was an NCAA Runner-Up at 142 lbs. in 1981 and 1982.
Zalesky has been inducted into the Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame, California Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Alaska Hall Of Fame.
Zalesky is originally from Shueyville, Iowa. He began his wrestling career as a sophomore in high school at Prairie High School where he would win a state title in 1977.
From humboldtathletics.com:
After his collegiate wrestling career concluded, Zalesky began competing internationally, winning a handful of tournaments from 1983-86. He won a silver medal in the 1983 Pan American Games, the 1984 World Cup, 1984 Tblisi Tournament in the former Soviet Union and the 1983 Canadian Cup. He also won the Henri Deglane Tournament in Nice, France in 1983 and the Cerro Pelado International Tournament in Cuba in 1986.
Zalesky graduated from Iowa in 1983 with a degree in finance and later earned another bachelor’s in education and Russian language in 1990, also from Iowa. He earned his master’s degree from Indiana in Slavic linguistics and literature in 2000. He was recognized five times in the 1990s for outstanding achievement by the American Council of Teachers of Russian.
Congratulations and best of luck to former Hawkeye great Lenny Zalesky.
It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.
Go Hawks!
