Hunter College Men's Wrestling

Director of Athletics Terry Wansart announces the hiring of Pete Jacobson as the Head Wrestling Coach and Assistant Athletic Director. When completing the hiring process, Wansart stated, "He brings a wealth of wrestling and leadership knowledge, along with a 'can-do attitude. As a former NYC firefighter, he demonstrates teamwork, tenacity, safety, and facing the unknown with confidence." Jacobson will oversee all aspects of the Wrestling program and as an Assistant Athletic Director will be a member of the senior administration team in the Athletic department.    Jacobson spent the last 21 years coaching his alma mater, Edgemont High School, in Westchester County. Over his time with the Panthers, Jacobson built a program from eight student-athletes to over 100 wrestlers each year at the youth, middle school, and high school levels. His Edgemont teams had significant success over the years with multiple league championships and sectional championships. The Panthers were also selected by the Section 1 Officials as the team of the year for sportsmanship multiple times during his tenure. When asked about the leadership for the wrestling program, Wansart said, "He also brings two decades of high school coaching experience, with local, regional, and national connections in the wrestling industry, which will serve him and the athletic department well." When named the Head Coach, Jacobson said, "Being so involved in wrestling throughout the region for the last 30 years, I remember some of the tough Hunter teams from over the years. There's just a ton of potential here. I'm so grateful to Terry Wansart and the search committee for the opportunity to lead Hunter Wrestling forward to new heights. My family and I are excited to be here, and I'm ready to get to work!" Jacobson has been a multiple-time League Coach of the Year, as well as a LoHud-Journal News Wrestling Coach of the Year. His student-athletes have won a combined 66 All-Section Honors, 29 Sectional Titles, 15 All-State Honors, and three New York State Championships. He has coached several high school All-Americans, and for eight of the last 14 years, one of Jacobson's wrestlers has earned the Section 1 Wrestler of the Year Award. Jacobson was also a member of the FDNY serving as a firefighter and first responder from 2002-2022. Jacobson and his wife, Katie, have a daughter and a son and live in Yonkers, NY.

Dolmo has been the head coach at Yeshiva High School and the assistant coach at Yeshiva University since 1999. On the high school level, he was responsible for the selection process of incoming athletes, managing the support staff, promoting the sport to school officials and scheduling. Additionally, he instituted competitions with non-parochial high schools; the first of its kind for Yeshiva students. He also created a parent organization to provide parents fluency in understanding wrestling techniques and terminology in order to help them support their child better and understand the sport.   On the collegiate level, as an assistant coach, he specialized in teaching double and single leg takedowns, knee picks and firemen's carry. He ran practice three times per week and focused not only on the physical aspects of the sport, but enforced the mental edge of wrestling as well by simulating meet scenarios to reinforce quick decision making and maneuverability.   A competitor himself, Dolmo has appeared in dozens of regional, national and international competitions including the World Championships, Empire State Games, USA and World Beach Championships, and USA Sombo National Championships where he has numerous gold, silver and bronze medals to his name. His level of competition as both a collegiate athlete as well as his post-collegiate career has led him to meets in Montenegro, Albania, Turkey, Puerto Rico and all over the United States.   As a collegiate wrestler, he was All-State in the 285 pound division, an All-American in the 197 lb weight class, and two-time national JUCO qualifier. Professionally, he was named Coach of the Year three times and led the Yeshiva High School wrestling team to the team championship on three occasions.   The Bronx resident also acts as a college liaison, mentoring inner city high school students with financial aid applications, serving as a guardian on visits, and mediator between the college and administration and parents who do not speak fluent English.   Dolmo earned his associates degree in applied sciences from SUNY Cobleskill and then earned a bachelor's of arts with a concentration in accounting from SUNY Oswego in May of 1999. He currently resides in the Bronx. Carlos Dolmo was appointed the head coach of the wrestling team in August 2015.

Adeshola Logunleko enters his first season as an assistant coach to the Hunter College wrestling team in 2021. He also serves as the head wrestling coach of Beat the Streets in Queens, N.Y., a position he held since 2017.  Logunleko graduated with a bachelor's degree in business from Mount Saint Vincent in 2016, where he was the captain of the wrestling team and a two-time Athlete of the Week selection.  Outside of wrestling, Logunleko is a Case Manager at the Sauti Yetu Center for African Women and Families in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Michael Falcon enters his first season as an assistant coach for the Hunter College wrestling team in 2021.  Previously, Falcon worked at C-Brand Wrestling Camps in Brockport and Ithaca, N.Y. where he worked with middle and high school aged wrestlers over two summers in 2014 and 2015. He was a four-year member of the SUNY Brockport wrestling team and an All-ECWC selection (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017) in addition to being named All-Mideast Regional in 2016.  Falcon graduated from SUNY Brockport in January 2018 with a degree in public health and health education and currently works for Care for the Homeless as a Continuous Quality Improvement Administrator.