University of Scranton Men's Wrestling

Russomano also moved into second place on the school's all-time coaching victories list with 42 career victories. One of the highlights of Russomano's coaching tenure came in March 2007 when he escorted senior Donell Young to the NCAA Division III championships in Duqubue, Iowa. Young became the 11th wrestler in school history to qualify for the NCAA championships.  Russomano has also coached two of the top-five winningest wrestlers in program history. Current senior Ian Evans enters the 2016-17 season with 90 victories, third-most in school history. Shawn Flesche, who wrestled from 2011-15, is fifth on that list with 76 career wins. Prior to his appointment as head coach, Russomano served as an assistant varsity wrestling coach for nine seasons at nearby Scranton High School, where he helped develop four Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) District II champions and two two-time all-regional selections by the The Times-Tribune. He was also on staff when the Knights won the Lackawanna League Division II title in 2000. Russomano also served as head junior high school and substitute assistant varsity wrestling coach at Elk Lake High School in Dimock, Pa., where the Warriors produced two junior high school individual district champions and were Northern Athletic Conference (NAC) team champions in 1994.  Russomano, a former member of the PIAA Coaches Association and current member of the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA), also served as head coach of the Iron Man Wrestling Club of Pennsylvania in Scranton in 1999-2000, where he was voted by the organizations more than 200 members as its coach of the year at its annual end of the season tournament. He has been a guest clinician at various wrestling clubs and events throughout the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  He learned his craft from Larry Fornicoli, the legendary head coach of the wrestling program at the then Keystone Junior College in nearby LaPlame in the early 1970s.  As a competitor, Russomano finished third in the PIAA District II championships at the former Scranton Technical High School and was a two-time Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Eastern qualifier.   He is also a two-time Pennsylvania state power-lifting champion (1972, 1973). Russomano resides in Scranton. A certified fitness trainer and specialist in exercise therapy by the International Sports & Sciences, he is the owner of Coach's Personal Fitness in nearby Dunmore. Russomano is also the father of two sons: Anthony, a United States Marine Corps veteran who took part in Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Al, Jr., also a member of the United States Marine Corps and a former member of the all-Marine International wrestling team.

Banks joined the Royal coaching staff as a volunteer in 2007.  Soon thereafter, he was promoted to assistant  head coach. A native of Delmar, Delaware, he was a two-time place-winner at the highly regarded Middle Atlantic Conference championships while wrestling for the former Western Maryland College, now McDaniel College, from 1974 through 1978.  He finished runner-up in the 177 and 190-pound weight classes at the 1976 and 1978 championships, respectively. He holds a degree in political science from McDaniel College and a master of business administration degree (MBA) from George Washington University.  He also received a certificate of participation from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, in 2005. In 1978, he joined Kraft Foods of Northfield, Illinois, and enjoyed a 28-year career in a variety of positions, including vice president for sales of the Kraft Pizza Company (1995-1997), vice president for sales of the East Area (Northeast United States, 1997-2003), and vice president of customer business operations (2003-2006), before retiring recently. Greg and his wife, Louise, are the parents of two daughters:  Sarah and Adele.  In 2007, Adele was a member of the Royals' women's soccer team that won the Landmark Conference championship and was a two-year letter-winner on the women's cross-country team.  In 2009, Adele finished 16th at the Landmark Conference championship meet to help the Royals win the team title, its first conference championship since the program was started in 1982.  The family resides nearby Harford, Pennsylvania.