RTCs: SKWC, NJRTC, PRTC, NYCRTC, LHVWC
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The point of the RTC is to give senior athletes the chance to keep competing and make world teams after graduation, any other mindset towards building an RTC is a losing one. If you have a good rtc that alone will attract higher end recruits and in turn help the college team but it’s definitely not there just to help the college kids.
32 year old Nate Jackson would 10-0 everyone associated with the SKWC including Labriola
Labs and no one else on Rutgers staff has any freestyle credentials outside of Sasso.
Sadly outside of the New England RTC which Brown tried to start a few years back we have the worst RTC in the country. We need to hire a guy like McKenna or someone on that level to run the RTC if we re really serious about getting to the next level.
Do any insiders know how much Sasso has been around since his hiring was announced? IMO he’s the only draw on the coaching staff when it comes to recruiting high ranking guys.
Go to the UsaW website and look at the list of RTCs Rutgers is nowhere near the worst.
Sasso is there all of the time and is very active talking to the kids and showing them things. Great addition.
Updated 3/30/26.
SKWC (Rutgers)
Location: Rutgers Wrestling Room (APC)
Head Coach: Kyle Kiss
(Mario Mason helping out?)
Resident Athletes:
• Mikey Labriola
• Zach Elam
• Sammy Sasso
• Kemol Begakov
PWC/NJRTC (Princeton; TCNJ also involved)
Location: Princeton Wrestling Room & Rhino Hillsborough
- Distance from Rutgers: 23 & 15 miles
Head Coach: Reece Humphrey
Resident Athletes:
• Kennedy Monday
• Quincy Monday
• Yahya Thomas
• Mekhi Lewis
NYCRTC (Columbia; Stevens also involved)
Location: Edge Hoboken, NJ & Columbia Wrestling Room
- Distance from Rutgers: 34 & 48 miles
- Partnership with NJRTC?: https://www.newjerseyrtc.com/nycrtc
Head Coach: Kendall Cross
- Emma Randall (women's assist. coach)
Resident Athletes:
• Sebastian Rivera
• Amit Elor
• Beau Bartlett
• Sam Barmish
• Avto Kentchadze
• Arian Carpio
• Maya Letona
• Sarmat Tsarakhov?
• Murad Gadzhiev?
Penn RTC (UPenn and Drexel)
Location: UPenn Wrestling Room
- Distance from Rutgers: 70 miles
Head Coach: ? UPenn staff running it
Resident Athletes:
• Darian Cruz
• Max Gallagher
• CJ Composto
• Adam Thomson
• Shane Jones
• Edwin Morales
Lehigh Valley WC (Lehigh)
Location: Lehigh Wrestling Room
- Distance from Rutgers: 58 miles
Head Coach: Kerry McCoy
Resident Athletes:
• Nathan Tomasello
• Jordan Wood
• Guesseppe Rea
• Mike Macchiavello
SKWC (Rutgers)
Location: Rutgers Wrestling Room (APC)
Head Coach: Kyle Kiss
(Mario Mason helping out?)
Resident Athletes:
• Mikey Labriola
• Zach Elam
• Sammy Sasso
• Kemol Begakov
PWC/NJRTC (Princeton; TCNJ also involved)
Location: Princeton Wrestling Room & Rhino Hillsborough
- Distance from Rutgers: 23 & 15 miles
Head Coach: Reece Humphrey
Resident Athletes:
• Kennedy Monday
• Quincy Monday
• Yahya Thomas
• Mekhi Lewis
NYCRTC (Columbia; Stevens also involved)
Location: Edge Hoboken, NJ & Columbia Wrestling Room
- Distance from Rutgers: 34 & 48 miles
- Partnership with NJRTC?: https://www.newjerseyrtc.com/nycrtc
Head Coach: Kendall Cross
- Emma Randall (women's assist. coach)
Resident Athletes:
• Sebastian Rivera
• Amit Elor
• Beau Bartlett
• Sam Barmish
• Avto Kentchadze
• Arian Carpio
• Maya Letona
• Sarmat Tsarakhov?
• Murad Gadzhiev?
Penn RTC (UPenn and Drexel)
Location: UPenn Wrestling Room
- Distance from Rutgers: 70 miles
Head Coach: ? UPenn staff running it
Resident Athletes:
• Darian Cruz
• Max Gallagher
• CJ Composto
• Adam Thomson
• Shane Jones
• Edwin Morales
Lehigh Valley WC (Lehigh)
Location: Lehigh Wrestling Room
- Distance from Rutgers: 58 miles
Head Coach: Kerry McCoy
Resident Athletes:
• Nathan Tomasello
• Jordan Wood
• Guesseppe Rea
• Mike Macchiavello
Rumor that B1G coaches want to change RTC eligibility rules to require Prospective Student Athletes to live within a 50 mile radius of the RTC to be eligible to practice there. Current USAW eligibility rule is 250 miles from campus.
"Lastly, more news trickling out of the Big 10 meeting indicates that coaches are looking to enforce a rule: no high school kids in RTCs unless they live within 50 miles. The coaches approved it; now it will move up the chain. You would be surprised who suggested it, and surprisingly, all the big RTC teams agreed. They spend a ton of time and big dollars with little return."
From this tweet:
Some interesting info here.
"Lastly, more news trickling out of the Big 10 meeting indicates that coaches are looking to enforce a rule: no high school kids in RTCs unless they live within 50 miles. The coaches approved it; now it will move up the chain. You would be surprised who suggested it, and surprisingly, all the big RTC teams agreed. They spend a ton of time and big dollars with little return."
From this tweet:
Some interesting info here.
50 miles or the closest RTC . so if say the nyc RTC is 48 miles from you , you can’t go past that to go to the Penn state RTC .so in deans case in barnaget if the SKWC was the closest RTC then he’d be able to go even if over 50 miles as long as it’s the closest one to his address