Class of 2025

Sean Reynolds,

Providence Catholic

Wrestler

 

Sean Reynolds wrestled at Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox for 2006 IWCOA Hall of Fame inductee Keith Healy. He was a three-time IHSA state placewinner, finishing third at 130 in his sophomore year in 2002-03 and then completing back-to-back undefeated seasons in 2003-04 and 2004-05 to claim Class AA titles at 140 as a junior and at 152 as a senior.

Sean ended his high school career with a 103-match win streak, and a final record of 179-15. He was also named the Dave Schultz Award recipient for Illinois.

He was also a three-time Junior Freestyle All-American, including a runner-up finish, and was third at the UWW Junior National Tournament. After high school, Sean went on to attend the University of Illinois under coach Mark Johnson, where, unfortunately, a series of injuries ended his college career before it began.

With his competition career over, he turned to coaching and assisted Mark Gardner, a 2013 IWCOA Hall of Fame inductee, at Bloomington High School where he coached multiple IHSA state placewinners and champions. Sean also helped found the Iguana Wrestling Club while coaching at BHS to help grow the Bloomington-Normal area’s youth wrestling.

Sean then turned to the college ranks, coaching for a few years at Lincoln College, then helping as an assistant at Millikin University for three seasons before finally landing at Illinois Wesleyan University in 2024 as an assistant with their newly-reinstated Men’s program and brand new Women’s program.

He was just recently named the head coach of the Fightin’ Titan RTC to help high school, college, and post-college wrestlers further opportunities in national and international freestyle competition.

His brother Donald Jr., a 2022 IWCOA Hall of Fame inductee, was a two-time IHSA champion and four-time medalist at Providence Catholic who wrestled at the University of Illinois and then took four teams to state, including a second-place finisher in Class 3A in 2016, as head coach at Marmion Academy and he currently is the head coach at Providence Catholic. And his father, Donald Sr., has been a longtime successful coach with Team Illinois and also an assistant coach at Providence Catholic.

Sean has also coached the Team Illinois Freestyle National Team over the past 15 years making trips to Fargo and some of the Dual Team National Tournaments.