Trinity College Men's Wrestling

Gales was also honored for his outstanding effort as one of three to share the 2014 National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) National Rookie Coach of the Year honors. Trinity finished 11th out of 18 teams at the 2014 NCAA Northeast Regional Wrestling Tournament.  Gales is 9-40 in dual matches over his first three seasons, competing with a depleted roster in 2013-14 and 2014-15, and the Bantams finished the 2015-16 campaign as the No-10-ranked team in New England. Gales came to Trinity from Springfield College, where he served as an assistant coach for three years. Gales helped the Pride win three NEWA Championships and coached five All Americans and one NCAA Division III Champion.  A 2010 graduate of San Francisco State University with a degree in physical education, Gales was a highly-decorated wrestler during his college years and earned honors for both academic and athletic achievement. Gales was a two-time Western Super Regional placewinner for the Gators and both a NCAA National Qualifier and an NWCA National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Scholar All American in 2009. Gales volunteered as an assistant coach at his alma mater before joining the Springfield staff in 2010. Gales coached eight national qualifiers in three years and helped the Pride finish 14-2 in dual meets and earn the No. 8 ranking in the final national poll in 2012-13.  He is a member of the NWCA Leadership Academy and owns a master's degree from Springfield in sport and exercise psychology.  Gales is also employed by Capitol Region Education Council's (CREC) Academy of Aerospace and Engineering Middle School in Windsor as an associate instructor.

Sebastian Amato enters his 26th season as the head wrestling coach at Trinity College in 2025-26. Amato is in his second stint with the Bantams, returning in 2020 following a 14-year hiatus. Amato is the program’s all-time winningest coach with a career record of 202-249-3.   During his tenure, Amato has coached ten All-American selections, 18 NCAA National Championship Qualifiers, 68 New England Wrestling Association (NEWA) All-New England honorees, and three NEWA All-Rookie Team designations.   Last season, the Bantams posted a 7-14 record in duals, collecting victories over Shippensburg, New England College, Worcester Poly, Plymouth State, Hunter, and Bridgewater State. Trinity took ninth at the RIT Invitational, 10th at the Racich Rumble, and 13th at the NEWA Futures Tournament. Alexander Schaeublin, Ty Trickle and Emre Sensoy received All-NEWA Honorbale Mention honors, while Trickle and Sensoy were tabbed to the NEWA All-Rookie Team.   Amato, who guided the Bantams to unprecedented success on the mat for 19 seasons before retiring from coaching in 2005, stepped back into his former position 14 years later in 2019-20. Trinity won a New England College Conference Wrestling Association (NECCWA) title and a NECCWA Duals Championship crown under Amato’s guidance. In 2021-22, Trinity posted a 12-9 overall record in dual matches while Amato mentored three Bantams to all-conference honorable mentions.  Two of Amato's Bantam wrestlers, Ray Jones '98, and Mike Blair '05, are members of the Trinity Athletics Hall of Fame. Amato coached Trinity to over 150 wins in dual matches from 1987 to 2005 and posted a 114-68-1 mark (.626) over the last eight seasons of his first stint with the Bantams. In 2000-01, Amato was the New England Coach of the Year, as the Bantams captured Trinity’s only NEWA Championship.  Trinity posted a best-ever record of 23-3, finished second in the NECCWA Championships, and won the NECCWA Duals title in 2002-03, earning the right to represent the conference in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association (NCWA) Duals Championships the following winter.  Amato had over 50 All-New England honorees and 10 All-Americans in his first stint at Trinity. Amato attended Western New England College, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in business marketing and captained the wrestling teams in his junior and senior years. Competing in the 142-pound weight class, he won a New England Championship title and qualified for the NCAA National Championships twice. Prior to Trinity, Amato served as an assistant coach at both Wesleyan University and Central Connecticut State University.  He is a member of the NECCWA Hall of Fame, the Western New England University Athletic Hall of Fame, and the City of New Britain Athletic Hall of Fame.

Gabordi begins his third season as a Trinity College assistant wrestling coach.  A 2013 graduate of Springfield College with a degree in recreation management, Gabordi was a starting heavyweight for the Pride for two of his four seasons.  Gabordi was a highly-decorated athlete at Springfield, winning Doug Parker Invitational and Scott Viera Invitational titles and finishing as a finalist at the Ithaca Invitational.  He was also named the Most Outstanding Wrestler at both the Scott Viera Invitational and the New England Wrestling Association Duals Championships in 2013. A native of Ledyard, Gabordi led his high school wrestling team to three State titles.

Brendan Weir enters his fifth season as a full-time assistant wrestling coach on Head Coach Sebastian Amato's staff for the 2025-26 season.  Weir arrived at Trinity from Western New England University, where he was a graduate assistant with the wrestling program for two seasons.  Weir graduated from the University of Southern Maine with a degree in athletic training in 2019 and added a master's degree in sport leadership and coaching from WNE.  He coached three All-Americans and seven Scholar All-Americans while with the Golden Bears.   Weir was a team captain, a two-time Northeast Region Placewinner, at Southern Maine, where he also earned New England Wrestling Association (NEWA) All-Conference and All-Academic recognition three times apiece.  Weir received a National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Scholar All-American award in 2016 and the Albert D. Bean Jr. Leadership Award while competing for the Huskies.  He also has coaching experience with the Baystate Wrestling Club.