Entering second season at TCNJ in 2020-21
Coached:
• 5 Division III All-Americans
• 6 NWCA Scholar All-Americans
Cooney helped lead the team to its first ever NCAA Regional Championship a season ago, while guiding five athletes to All-America honors.
A 2003 graduate of Holy Cross High School, Cooney was a four-time District 26 Champion, a four-time Region 7 Champion and a four-time N.J.S.I.A.A. place winner. Upon graduation in ’03, Cooney enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania where, wrestling at heavyweight, he went 10-10 before his career was sidelined. After graduating from Penn in ’07, Cooney worked in business for a few years before he entered the field of education as an instructor of special education. Still wanting to contribute to wrestling, Cooney became involved in coaching, and has served as the head coach at Holy Cross for the past five years. Cooney’s teams at Holy Cross managed to win 3 consecutive Burlington County Freedom Division Championships and a South Jersey Parochial B Championship. During his high school coaching career, Cooney coached 10 individual district champions, 7 regional champions and 6 state place winners.
