Trinity College

Shirzad Ahmadi brings a great wealth of wrestling expertise to Trinity College wrestling. Originally from the wrestling hotbed of Iran, Coach Ahmadi will be entering his 11th year as assistant coach for the Bantams on the mat in 2023-24. He was a four-time Iranian National Champ, a International Military Sports Council (CISM) Military World Games gold medalist, a 26-time U.S. Veterans National Champions, a 16-time Veterans World Champion, and has almost 50 years of coaching experience at the high school and NCAA Division I, II, and III levels. In the fall of 2015, Ahmadi became the first American wrestler to win both the Freestyle and Greco-Roman Veteran World Championships in the same tournament.