Kevin Black coaching Helen Maroulis at 2011 World Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. Larry Slater photo.

Kevin Black (River Falls, Wis./New York AC) has been named 2011 Women's Coach of the Year by USA Wrestling. This is the second time that Black has received this prestigious award (2009, 2011). He becomes the first person to win the Women’s Coach of the Year more than once.

Black was a 2011 U.S. World Team coach, which placed in tie for third in World Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, with two bronze medalists, Adeline Gray and Ali Bernard.

He is a club coach with the New York AC, which won the U.S. Open Div. I title in Dec. 2011, and was second in U.S. Open in Div. I in April 2011. He was club coach for two members of the 2011 U.S. World Team, Helen Maroulis and Adeline Gray.

Black was a coach of U.S. Senior tour team to Poland. He also coached at Women’s Team USA Training Camp in Iowa City in December.

Black was a 2009 U.S. World Team coach, helping lead the U.S. to a sixth place finish at World Championships, with three athletes placing fifth and five placing in the top 10.

Black was also a World Team coach with the 2007 U.S. Women's World Team which competed in Baku, Azerbaijan and placed fifth in the World team standings, led by silver medalist Katie Downing and bronze medalists Sara McMann and Kristie Marano.

Black has coached a number of USA Wrestling Senior women's tour teams. He has also coached age-group women's teams, taking the U.S. University women's team to compete in El Salvador in 2007 and the U.S. Cadet women's team to China in 2006.

Black represents the Northern Plains Region on USA Wrestling’s Women’s Age-Group Council.

He served one term as the commissioner of the Women's College Wrestling Association (WCWA), the organization that oversees women's college freestyle wrestling. He is also the coach of the women's wrestling club program at the Univ. of Wisconsin-River Falls which competes in the WCWA.

Black has served as the women's wrestling liaison and a member of the Board of the Directors for the National Wrestling Coaches Association.

He serves as the Women's Director for the Wisconsin Wrestling Federation. He has coached the Wisconsin Junior Nationals Women's team since 2003 and the Wisconsin team at the USA Wrestling Folkstyle Nationals the last four years.

Black has coached and operated the Victory School of Wrestling in River Falls, Wis. since 2005, where he works with young wrestlers of all levels. He served as an assistant coach for the Univ. of Wisconsin from 2003-05, working with the Div. I program there. He was a wrestling coach at Lodi High School from 2005-06.

He was the Wisconsin Wrestling Federation State Coach from 2004-06, and coached the state's Cadet Freestyle National Team from 2002-06. He conducted the Black Brothers Wrestling Camps from 2000-06.

Black was a NCAA Div. I All-American for the Univ. of Wisconsin, where he was a NCAA qualifier three times and served as the team captain three times. Black won four Wisconsin state titles for River Falls High School, with a 160-0 career record. He competed on the Senior level in freestyle, wrestling in a number of major international tournaments.

PAST WOMEN'S COACH OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERS
2011 – Kevin Black, River Falls, Wis., New York AC
2010 – Keith Wilson, Colorado Springs, Colo., Sunkist Kids
2009 – Kevin Black, River Falls, Wis., New York AC
2008 - Tadaaki Hatta, Elyria, Ohio, New York AC
2007 - Troy Steiner, Corvallis, Ore.
2006 - Joe Corso, Metairie, La. ,Gator WC
2005 - Bill Scherr, Glenview, Ill., Sunkist Kids
2004 - Tricia Saunders, Phoenix, Ariz., Sunkist Kids
2003 - Townsend Saunders, Phoenix, Ariz., Sunkist Kids
2002 - Joe Corso, Des Moines, Iowa, Sunkist Kids