USA Wrestling has named its head and assistant coaches for the 2002 U.S. Women's World Team: head coach Chris Horpel of Stanford, Calif. and assistant coach Joe Corso of West Des Moines, Iowa.    The U.S. Women's World Team will compete at the 2002 Women's World Championships, set for Halkida, Greece, Nov. 2-3. The U.S. team was determined at the 2002 World Team Trials in Saint Paul, Minn., June 21-23.    Horpel serves as the head coach of the Dave Schultz Wrestling Club, one of the world's top international wrestling clubs. The Dave Schultz WC sponsors national and international stars in all three styles of wrestling: men's freestyle, women's freestyle and men's Greco-Roman. The club has won numerous national titles and runner-up trophies in all three styles and on many age-group levels.    One of the Dave Schultz WC athletes will be competing for Horpel on the 2002 U.S. World team, Patricia Miranda at 105.5 pounds. Miranda, who recently graduated from Stanford Univ., also competed for Horpel on the college level at Stanford.    "I'm very excited," said Horpel. "Because women's wrestling has been added to the 2004 Olympics, there has been a more committed attitude by the athletes. Looking at who has made our team, our prospects are excellent in returning as World Champions. Although this is my first women's team, I have coached the Dave Schultz WC women as well as team member Patricia Miranda. It will be a fun and interesting experience for me. I was very impressed at the World Team Trials. Our athletes have made huge strides."    Horpel is a member of USA Wrestling's national coaching staff, having coached more than 10 international teams in freestyle and Greco-Roman, including three Pan American freestyle teams.     Horpel is now completing his first year as the Director of Wrestling at Stanford Univ. He stepped down as the head coach at Stanford in the 2001-02 season after 23 seasons at the helm to assume his current position. His primary focus in the new job is the promotion and longevity of wrestling at Stanford.    As Stanford head coach, Horpel produced seven NCAA Division I All-Americans, ten Pacific-10 Conference champions and qualified Stanford wrestlers to the NCAA Championships in all but one season.     While an undergraduate at Stanford, Horpel was a two-time All-American (fifth as a junior and seventh as a senior). In addition, Horpel won the 1975 Pacific-8 Conference title at 150 pounds. He later represented the United States in Montreal at the Pre-Olympic World Tournament in Greco-Roman, placing fifth at 149.5 pounds. The following year, Horpel again went to Montreal as an alternate on the 1976 United States Olympic Team.     Horpel began his coaching career as the assistant coach at Stanford (1975-76) while also training for the 1976 Olympics. After the Montreal Olympiad, he was assistant coach at Palo Alto High School in California (1976-77), head coach at Gunn High School in California (1977-78), and assistant coach at UCLA (1978-79). In 1979-80, Horpel was named the head coach at Stanford. As a high school coach, he produced two California state champions: Dave and Mark Schultz, both of whom would later win NCAA, World and Olympic titles.     Corso has coached numerous U.S. Women's teams in international competition. Corso was the head coach of the 2001 Women's World Team, which placed seventh in the World Championships and featured two medalists. He was also the head coach of the 1998 Women's World Team, which placed third in the World Championships in Poznan, Poland and featured World Champion Tricia Saunders. Corso was head coach of the 1990 U.S. Women's World team, which placed sixth in the World Championships in Lulea, Sweden.     He was an assistant coach on the 1991 U.S. Women's World Team, which placed fifth in the World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. He was also the head coach of the 1992 and 1998 U.S. Men's Junior World Freestyle Teams. He has also coached a number of U.S. men's wrestling teams on international tours. He runs a local business in Des Moines.    Corso has been a coach and administrator for the Sunkist Kids club, which has won numerous national team titles on the Senior and age-group levels in both men's and women's wrestling.     He was the head wrestling coach at Phoenix College from 1992-93. Corso has served as an assistant coach at Purdue Univ., the Univ. of Minnesota and Indiana Univ. He was also the head coach of Brophy Preperatory High School from 1989-91.    Corso was a member of the 1976 U.S. Olympic freestyle wrestling team. He placed third in the 1979 World Championships, and won a gold medal at the 1979 Pan American Championships. He was also a gold medalist in the 1992 Veterans World Championships. He has won 10 national freestyle titles. Corso placed third in the 1975 NCAA Championships for Purdue Univ. Originally from Des Moines, Iowa, he was an Iowa state high school champion in 1971.     The United States is a World power in women's freestyle wrestling, having claimed the World team title in 1999 and placing among the top teams at the World Championships every year since entering for the first time in 1989.