Head Coach: Justin Petersen: 10th year, 50-101
Assistant Coaches:
Junior Ortiz
Tom Pasquariello
Josh Rake
Jamie Tomsic
Sport: Wrestling
Team Name: Palmerton Area
League: Colonial League
2022 Record: 4-11
Key Wrestlers Lost: Dan Lucykanish 152
Key Returning Wrestlers:
Mason Becker – 127-133 (3-5)
Caleb Gaffney – 160-172 (0-0) *Injured last season
Derek King – 152-160 (28-12) *RQ
Dillon Lombardi – 152-160 (23-12)
Josh Merkel – 133-139 (19-17)
Aidan Ortiz – 139-145 (7-11)
Bryce Smith – 152-160 (11-11)
Jameson Trainer – 172-189 (10-14)
Kellen Trotter – 121-127 (7-20)
Vincent Taglieri – 139-145 (6-8)
Key Newcomers:
Dawson McCoy – 11th
David Steele – 11th
Chris Zengen – 11th
Anderson Garcia-Escobar – 10th
Jaggar Serfass – 10th
James Mack – 10th
Dillon Anthony – 9th JH 3rd
Colton Becker – 9th
Chris Collier – 9th
Josh Dunwoodie – 9th
Nathan Goldstein – 9th
Matthew Gombert – 9th
Levi Johnson – 9th
Antonio Oller – 9th
Thomas Pasquariello – 9th
Jake Rutkowitz – 9th
Tegan Silfies – 9th
2023-24 Outlook: We are excited for the season to get underway. We have more wrestlers out than I can ever remember, and that can be said at every level of the program, not just the high school.
With those numbers, we bring back a lot of talented, experienced wrestlers. I am excited to see the growth they have made over the offseason. We haven’t really taken our foot off the gas pedal since the end of last season.
It’ll be a fun year to coach this team, for sure. Some question marks are we need some bigger wrestlers.
