Willaert excited to lead wrestling student-athletes

Meet Augustana's new wrestling coach, Tony Willaert. Willaert becomes the 15th head coach in program history.

He is familiar with Divison III athletics and the liberal arts. Before coming to Augustana, he was a student-athlete and later head coach at St. John's University in Minnesota.

"I feel like D-III athletes really just want to compete for the love of the sport," he said. "We want well-rounded kids. We want kids who enjoy their wrestling experience but also do the classroom work, and then move on to bigger and better things."

The Vikings return several key contributors including All-Americans, Christos Giatras and Adarios Jones.  The season starts Nov. 4 at the Wisconsin-Platteville Invitational.