Jim Zalesky
Jim Zalesky
Jim Zalesky is American college wrestling coach and is currently the head wrestling coach for the Oregon State Beavers and a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Prior to joining the Beavers, he was the coach of the University of Iowa wrestling team from 1998–2006. At Iowa, he succeeded Dan Gable as head coach, under whom he was a three-time NCAA champion. He guided the Hawkeyes to NCAA team championships in 1998, 1999, and 2000...
expect great hard lose team work
We're not going to lose because we're not in shape; we're not going to lose because we didn't work hard enough. Those are things we can control, and I'm going to expect my team to be in great shape.
hit hitting keeps
We'll see where he is at this weekend. It's one of those things where he hit it and keeps hitting it, so you've got to give it some rest.
bottom guys knock ourselves stay top win wrestle
We didn't take ourselves out of it. We've got to keep the individuals on top winning, and the guys on the bottom have got to come back and win and stay in the tournament. We've got to knock some guys off. If we wrestle to our seed, we're not going to do much.
bring guys next room step year
We've got guys in the room we feel can step up next year and bring us back up.
emphasis putting realize time win
You want to win these duals, but we realize if we don't, we still have time to get better. The emphasis we're putting on is more the Big Tens and NCAA.
push
It's one of those things where we don't want to push it right now. He really can't do a lot without getting hurt.