Mike Simmon took over Hunter's Wrestling program during the 2009-10 season, taking the reigns from long time coach, Bob Gaudenzi.
Coach Simmon led the 2011-2012 Hawks to 10-8 Dual meet record highlighted by a 5th place finish in the Metro Conference Tournament, placing 8 wrestlers and finishing ahead of #24 Deleware Valley and #7 The College of New Jersey. Additionally the Hawks finished 2nd amongst D3 Colleges at the New York State Collegiate Wrestling
Championships and returned to the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships for the 2nd striaght year.
During the 2010-11 season, Simmon coached wrestler Eduardo Delgado to a third place finish at the Metropolitan Championships, second place at the New York State Championships and an appearance in the NCAA Championship Tournament where he went 2-2.
Simmon comes to Hunter College after successfully implementing Hunter High School’s first wrestling program in the school’s history. Prior to his work with Hunter High, Coach Simmon also headed the program at Hunter Middle School from 2005-2007.
Competitively, Simmon wrestled for Coach Gaudenzi at Hunter in 2005-06. Prior to attending Hunter, Simmon served as a Corporal in the United States Marine Corps from 2000 through 2005 where he also competed for the Camp Hansen Wrestling team when stationed in Okinawa, Japan. In high school, Simmon was a two-time Rhode Island place winner, finishing his scholastic career with a 90-32 record.
He earned a bachelors degree in business administration from the University of Maryland in 2006
