Andy Seras and Shawn Sheldon also became Olympic Team coaches.Ĭoach DeMeo has received many honors. He also produced 4 NCAA Division III champions, and 11 of his former wrestlers made an Olympic team with two Olympic champions, Dave Schultz and Jeff Blatnick.įour of Coach DeMeo's former wrestlers became World Team Coaches: Andy Seras, Shawn Sheldon, Dale Oliver, and Isaac Ramaswamy. At Albany he produced 47 All-Americans and eight times finished in the top ten teams in the NCAA Division III National Tournament. He founded the Adirondack Three-Style Wrestling Association (ATWA) Wrestling club which produced 28 National Champions from the schoolboy, high school, college, and open division tournaments.Īt Stanford and Albany universities, Coach DeMeo's teams won 289 dual meets. He was named National Coach of the Year three times and named USA Wrestling's Developmental Coach of the Year for 2005. Greco-Roman Junior World Team, and 4-time assistant coach for U.S. Greco-Roman Pan Am Team, 2-time head coach of the U.S. Senior Greco-Roman World Team, 2-time head coach and 2-time assistant coach of the U.S. He was assistant wrestling coach at Michigan State 1967-1969, head coach at Stanford University 1969-1977, head coach at Albany University 1978-1995, 4-time head coach and 16-time assistant coach of the U.S. He also won a National freestyle championship.įollowing college Joe DeMeo began a long, illustrious coaching career.

At Cornell he was a three-time letterman and had two undefeated dual meet seasons and was undefeated against all Ivy League opponents during his career. Pleasant High School where he was an outstanding wrestler and went on to attend Cornell University where he had a career as a varsity wrestler from 1960-65. He has two children, Michael, 37 and Jay-Seph, 28. He presently resides in nearby Niskayuna. Joseph DeMeo was born in Schenectady, NY in 1941.

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