The U.S. Olympic Committee has named its Coaches of the Year in each sport in the categories of National Coach, Volunteer Coach and Developmental Coach. The winners for wrestling were: USOC National Wrestling Coach of the Year: Terry Steiner (Colorado Springs, Colo.) USOC Volunteer Wrestling Coach of the Year: Shon Lewis (Fort Carson, Colo.) USOC Developmental Wrestling Coach of the Year: John Matthews (Phoenix, Ariz.) These wrestling coaches become eligible for the 2003 USOC Coach of the Year awards including all sports in the Olympic family. At total of 41 Olympic and Pan American sport organizations have named their 2003 National, Developmental and/or Volunteer Coaches of the Year as part of the USOC Coach of the Year recognition program. Five finalists in each category will be named by a USOC selection panel later this month. The five finalists in the National and Developmental categories and the winner of the USOC Volunteer Coach of the Year title will be honored May 1-3 at the Colorado Springs Olympic Training Complex. The USOC National Coach of the Year and USOC Developmental Coach of the Year will be announced during a May 2 dinner at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs. USOC National Wrestling Coach of the Year: Terry Steiner (Colorado Springs, Colo.) Steiner was named USA Wrestling's full-time National Women's Coach in April 2002. He is responsible for the training of America's elite women freestyle wrestlers, as well as coaching women wrestlers who are involved in the U.S. Olympic Training Center resident athlete program. He also plays an important role in the development of women's wrestling in the United States. Since becoming USA Wrestling's National Women's Coach, U.S. teams on international tours have turned in many outstanding performances. The United States placed second at the 2003 World Championships, with seven individual medalists, one in each weight class. Team USA upset Japan to win the 2003 Women's World Cup, as the world's top dual meet team. The USA swept all four gold medals at the 2003 Pan American Games, the first time that women's wrestling was contested. Steiner completed his sixth season as an assistant wrestling coach at the Univ. of Wisconsin, working with head coach Barry Davis. He has helped develop a number of successful Div. I wrestlers, including two-time NCAA champion Donny Pritzlaff. Steiner spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Oregon State. He was also a coach with the Hawkeye Wrestling Club in Iowa City, Iowa after his college career ended. Since 1997, he served as one of the coaches for Wisconsin's USA Wrestling Cadet National Team. Along with his twin brother Troy, he directed a kids wrestling club in Iowa City in 1993-94. As an athlete, Steiner claimed second in the 1998 U.S. Nationals in freestyle and placed at the National Championships eight times. He placed fourth in the 1996 Olympic Trials and fifth in the 2000 Olympic Trials. He won a gold medal at the 1996 Pan American Championships. He was a 1993 NCAA Div. I champion for Univ. of Iowa, coached by the legendary Dan Gable. He won three All-American honors and compiled a career record of 124-27-2. He was also voted the Outstanding Wrestler at the 1993 NCAA Championships. Originally from Bismarck, N.D., Steiner won two state titles for Century High School. Steiner earned a bachelor's degree in social work from Iowa in 1993. USOC Volunteer Wrestling Coach of the Year: Shon Lewis (Fort Carson, Colo.) Lewis has been named as one of the U.S. Olympic Team coaches for Greco-Roman wrestling which will compete at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Lewis served as head coach of the 2003 U.S. Greco-Roman World team that competed in Cretiel, France. The U.S. team placed 13th in the standings, led by three athletes in the top 10 of their divisions. He was named USA Wrestling's Greco-Roman Coach of the Year for 2002. He served as the assistant coach of the 2002 U.S. Greco-Roman World Team, which placed fifth in the World Championships held in Moscow, Russia. The team was led by World Champion Dremiel Byers. Lewis is also Byers' full-time club coach, a major reason that Byers was able to develop into a World champion. Lewis works as the head coach of the U.S. Army team, stationed in Fort Carson, Colo. He is responsible for training the athletes in the Army's World Class Athlete Program. The U.S. Army team features a number of nationally-ranked athletes, including Byers, and 2001 U.S. World Team member Keith Sieracki. The team has won the U.S. Nationals Greco-Roman team title for the last three seasons. Under Lewis' guidance, the U.S. Army won the 2003 Armed Forces Championships, claiming the title in both freestyle and Greco-Roman, as well as the overall title. The U.S. Army has won the Armed Forces title a number of times since Lewis became head coach. Lewis has also served as a coach for the U.S. World Military team, which competes at the annual CISM World Military Championships. Lewis was also named 2002 Greco-Roman Coach of the Year by USA Wrestling. As an athlete, Lewis competed on the 1993 and 1999 U.S. World Championships teams. He also qualified for the 1998 U.S. World Team, but was unable to participate in the World Championships that year. He was a four-time U.S. Nationals Greco-Roman champion (1993-94, 1996, 1998), and was a medalist in three U.S. Olympic Team Trials (1992, 1996, 2000). Lewis was a member of the U.S. Army team as an athlete, winning six Armed Forces Greco-Roman titles and competing in the World Military Championships. He was the 1993 U.S. Army Athlete of the Year, an award including all sports in the Army's program. Prior to joining the Army, he attended the Univ. of Oregon, as well as competing for Placer High School in Auburn, Calif. USOC Developmental Wrestling Coach of the Year: John Matthews (Phoenix, Ariz.) Matthews has served two years as the Arizona's State Greco-Roman Developmental Coach. He travels to numerous training sites around the state and conducts skills and training clinics for coaches, athletes and clubs. He has also developed a technical and training syllabus for the state in Greco-Roman. Matthews has developed an organized system of training at the Arizona national summer camps, which has helped result in a tremendous improvement in the performance of Arizona wrestlers on the national level. The state has won numerous medals, including a number of individual champions, at major USA Wrestling competitions since Matthews has been involved. Included were five gold medals at the 2003 FILA Cadet Nationals, four gold medals at the Western Junior Regionals, 11 gold medals at the Western Kids/Cadet Regionals and three gold medals at the 2002 ASICS Junior and Cadet Nationals. In total, Arizona athletes won 63 national placements at those competitions. Matthews has also been named 2003 USA Wrestling Developmental Coach of the Year. The award honors the top coach in the nation working with age-group wrestlers and programs. He has a tremendous background in Greco-Roman wrestling, as one of the nation's top Greco-Roman athletes of his era. He was a member of the 1976 and 1980 U.S. Olympic teams in Greco-Roman wrestling at 163 pounds. He placed fourth in the 1978 World Championships, and also competed in the 1977, 1979 and 1982 World Championships. In 2003, Matthews was a double champion at the Veterans National Championships, winning both styles in Div. D (50-55 years) at 187.25 pounds. He has served two years as a wrestling coach at Desert Vista High School in Arizona, where he has improved the performance of the program. He was previously an assistant coach at Central Michigan Univ. from 1974-79. Click here to see all of the 2003 USOC National Coaches of the Year