Sebastian Amato enters his 26th season as the head wrestling coach at Trinity College in 2025-26. Amato is in his second stint with the Bantams, returning in 2020 following a 14-year hiatus. Amato is the program’s all-time winningest coach with a career record of 202-249-3.
During his tenure, Amato has coached ten All-American selections, 18 NCAA National Championship Qualifiers, 68 New England Wrestling Association (NEWA) All-New England honorees, and three NEWA All-Rookie Team designations.
Last season, the Bantams posted a 7-14 record in duals, collecting victories over Shippensburg, New England College, Worcester Poly, Plymouth State, Hunter, and Bridgewater State. Trinity took ninth at the RIT Invitational, 10th at the Racich Rumble, and 13th at the NEWA Futures Tournament. Alexander Schaeublin, Ty Trickle and Emre Sensoy received All-NEWA Honorbale Mention honors, while Trickle and Sensoy were tabbed to the NEWA All-Rookie Team.
Amato, who guided the Bantams to unprecedented success on the mat for 19 seasons before retiring from coaching in 2005, stepped back into his former position 14 years later in 2019-20. Trinity won a New England College Conference Wrestling Association (NECCWA) title and a NECCWA Duals Championship crown under Amato’s guidance. In 2021-22, Trinity posted a 12-9 overall record in dual matches while Amato mentored three Bantams to all-conference honorable mentions. Two of Amato's Bantam wrestlers, Ray Jones '98, and Mike Blair '05, are members of the Trinity Athletics Hall of Fame.
Amato coached Trinity to over 150 wins in dual matches from 1987 to 2005 and posted a 114-68-1 mark (.626) over the last eight seasons of his first stint with the Bantams. In 2000-01, Amato was the New England Coach of the Year, as the Bantams captured Trinity’s only NEWA Championship. Trinity posted a best-ever record of 23-3, finished second in the NECCWA Championships, and won the NECCWA Duals title in 2002-03, earning the right to represent the conference in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association (NCWA) Duals Championships the following winter. Amato had over 50 All-New England honorees and 10 All-Americans in his first stint at Trinity.
Amato attended Western New England College, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in business marketing and captained the wrestling teams in his junior and senior years. Competing in the 142-pound weight class, he won a New England Championship title and qualified for the NCAA National Championships twice.
Prior to Trinity, Amato served as an assistant coach at both Wesleyan University and Central Connecticut State University. He is a member of the NECCWA Hall of Fame, the Western New England University Athletic Hall of Fame, and the City of New Britain Athletic Hall of Fame.
