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| Coach Wadas |
Varsity Head Coach
Matt Wadas Matt Wadas is in his eleventh year here at Warren
County and his 6th as Head Coach. He took over the reigns from
former head coach Rodger Seemiller (see Coaches Hall of Fame below). Wadas grew up in Tunkhannock,
PA and has been around wrestling his whole life.
His father Frank Wadas – who coached wrestling at Tunkhannock
High School for 36 years until retiring in 2005 – is a member of
the Pennsylvania Wrestling State Hall of Fame. Wadas started wrestling at a young
age and wrestled up until his career ended with injuries in early high school. He
stayed involved with wrestling until he graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001. He moved to Front Royal where he met Charlie Dodge (see Coaches Hall of Fame below) who helped him become the
assistant of the Middle School team with Head Coach Steve Burton. While at Warren County Wadas has coached the Middle School,
Junior Varsity and Varsity levels of wrestling. He lives in Luray with his wife who is a teacher at Ressie Jeffries Elementary School
and their two daughters Madison and Colleen.
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| Coach Billy |
Varsity Assistant Coach
Chad Billy
Chad Billy is in his sixth year here at Warren
County. He is originally a native of Northampton, PA - one of the famous Koncrete Kids. At Northampton he was a three time state
place winner and a Pennsylvania State Champion. Billy then attended Clarion University of PA for two years, then West
Virginia University for two years where he was a - two time WVU open champion, a Navy Classic Champion, a two time
EWL runner up, and a two time NCAA Qualifier. After Graduation Coach Billy traveled to Jefferson
County, WV where he became a Physical Education Teacher and Wrestling
Coach. He coached numerous district, region, and state placewinners, including one State Champ while he was there. In
2011 he was inducted into the District 11 Pennsylvanis Hall of Fame. Coach Billy is a physical education teacher at Warren
County High School. He lives in Strasburg with his wife Alicia and their sons Carlos and Lucas.
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| Coach Orndorff |
Head Junior Varsity Coach
Mat Cats Youth Coach
Adam Orndorff
Adam Orndorff is in his seventh year at Warren County and his fifth with the wrestling
program. Coach Orndorff is the head junior varsity coach and a coach for the Mat Cats youth wrestling program.
He grew up down the road in Stephen's City, wrestled and played football at Shernado High School. He was on both of Sherando's
State runner up football teams and went on to play football at Shenandoah College in Winchester. Coach Orndorff then
went to Virginia Tech for his master's degree and is now teaching PE at Ressie Jefferies Elementary School. He lives
in Stephen's City with his wife Lindsey son Logan and their new baby Mackenzie!
Team Strength and Conditioning
Coordinator
Brandon
Wakefield
Brandon Wakefield is in his 4th year at Warren County and his
first with the wrestling team. Coach Wakefield graduated from Bridgewater college with his degree in health and exercise science.
While there he played quarterback for the eagles, where he still holds several passing records and was second team all-conference
quarterback twice. After college Coach Wakefield traveled to Germany and played professional football with the Montabaur Fighting
Farmers. Coach Wakefield was hired at Warren County in 2008 and starting coaching with the wildcats football team. While
at Warren County he became a certified strength and conditioning coach through the national strength and conditioning
association. This year Coach Wakefield will be running the strength and conditioning program for the entire wrestling program.
He lives in locally with his wife Maria and twin daughters Lorelei and Mikaela.
Junior High/Middle School Head Coach
Steve Burton
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| Coach Burton |
Steve Burton is in his thirteenth year here at Warren
County. Coach Burton grew up in VA and went to Buffalo Gap High School
where he wrestled and played football. He went on to play college football at
Methodist College,
in NC. After graduation he coached for 3 years at Pine
Forrest Middle School in Fayetteville, NC where his team was the District Champs
for 2 years. He then moved to Warren County
and became the Middle School Head Wrestling Coach after coaching with Charlie Dodge for one year. In 2005 he the lead the Cats to their first NVJL District Championship in school history and then thier second
in 2010. Coach Burton teaches at Skyline High School coaching football
and track. He has two beautiful twin daughters and his wife Heather Burton is a teacher at Broad
Run High School in Loudoun County.
Junior High/Middle School Assistant Coach
Shane Woolf
Shane Woolf is in his fourth year as Warren County's Middle School Assistant Coach. Coach Woolf is a Warren County High
School Alumni (class of 1990). Woolf began wrestling in 1986 when Coach Charlie Dodge resurrected the WC wrestling program;
Woolf was a freshman at that time. On December 12, 1987 Woolf help the varsity team record its first win in four years. After
a rough first 1 ½ years, Woolf departed for Australia as a yearlong exchange student and upon returning from Australia, he
was pleasantly surprised to find a new assistant coach; Rodger Seemiller. Under the tutelage of Coach Dodge and Seemiller,
Woolf placed second in the first annual Warren County Take Down Tournament, was one of the first recipients of the Coaches
"Four Year Award," he became a district and regional place winner during his senior year, and was named the Lion’s Club
Student Athlete for the spring of 1990. Coach Woolf teaches Life Science at the Middle School and is presently pursuing a
masters degree in curriculum and instruction from Virginia Tech. He lives in Front Royal with his wonderful wife and he truly
believes that, "Our tradition never graduates."
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A Special Thank You
Thank you to Coach Seemiller, Coach Dodge, and Coach
Biedrycki
All your dedication
and hard work has built this program and will never be forgotten.
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Charlie Dodge - (1986-1999)
Coach Charlie Dodge is known as the father of Warren County
Wrestling. In 1986 after a year with no wrestling Coach Dodge resurected the program bringing wrestling back to WC.
He coached many district, region, and state placewinners in his 14 year career, but was also instrumental in bringing Warren
County to one of the top wrestling schools in the State. He introduced a youth wrestling program into the County
and was a big part of the famous summer program Massanutten MatMen. Coach Dodge brought numerous coaches into
the program including Coach Seemiller, Biedrycki, Burton, and Wadas.
Before coach Dodge came to Warren County he built
a great resume which started at Washington and Lee College. While wrestling at W&L, Coach Dodge was under the
watchful eye of Guy Cavallo. Coach Cavallo helped lead W&L to the AAA State championship in 1959 interrupting Granby H.S.
streak of 21 titles. At W&L Coach Dodge wrestled with other soon to be head coaches in Virginia, Jim Raines; Liberty H.S.AA
and Jud Stokes; Hickory H.S.AAA. After finishing Radford University in 1984 Coach Dodge returned to wrestling as an assistant
coach at Bishop Ireton. At Ireton he was
under the tutelage of 2 time ACC champ Kevin Colabucci from the University of Maryland. Here they won the 1985 Virginia Independent
State Wrestling Championships. In 1986 Coach Dodge worked with another Maryland wrestling graduate Paul Triplitt. Coach Dodge
left Ireton to resurrect the program at Warren County from a one year lay off. Coach Triplitt went on to coach powerful Mt.St.Joes
in Maryland. Coach Dodge proceeded
to rebuild the program from the ground up. After going 0-15 and 3-9-1 with few wrestlers, the program began to turn around
with the addition of yet another University of Maryland Wrestler, Coach Rodger Seemiller. While it took another 3 years to
post its first winning season, the team has since gone 87-39. At
the end of the 1998-1999 wrestling season Coach Dodge decided to step down as head coach for the Warren County Varsity Team
and take on the position of head coach for the Warren County Middle School Team. After a short stint as Assistant AD
for Warren County High School he rejoined Seemiller in 2005 for one last year as assistant coach of the Cats.
He is now retired from coaching wrestling and works at the Junior High as a PE teacher. In 2008 Coach Dodge was inducted into
the Warren County Athletic Hall of Fame.
Rodger Seemiller - (1999-2006)
Coach Seemiller hails from Altoona Pennsylvania where he
wrestled for coach Marty Rusnak and the Altoona Mountain Lions from 1972 to 1975. Although plagued by injuries most of his
junior and senior year, Coach Seemiller achieved All - American status with a 5th place finish at the National Junior Championships
in Iowa City and a berth on the prestigious Pennsylvania Top 100. A scholarship landed Coach Seemiller at the University of
Maryland where he continued his career under Coach John Mchugh. Once again, a knee injury brought an early end to Seemillers
career. However, his competitive juices got him a 2nd place at the National AAU Collegiate Weightlifting Championships in
1978. Upon graduation Coach Seemiller went right to coaching
including such places as Georgetown Prep, and Penn state (Altoona). Seemiller hooked up with coach Dodge and the Wildcats
in 1988 where he has assisted and helped Warren County to numerous winning seasons. As coaching irony would have it, while
at Georgetown Prep, Coach Seemiller was assisted by Kevin Colabucci (see Dodge bio) who was later to become head coach at
Bishop Ireton HS where Coach Dodge began his coaching career. Coach Seemiller retired after the 2005/06 season and continues
to work at the High School teaching PE. In 2011 Coach Seemiller was inducted into the Warren County Athletic Hall
of Fame along side Warren County's State Champion - Eric Hawes.
Stephen Biedrycki - Assistant Varsity
Coach
Coach Biedrycki comes to us with a list of credits that reads
like a "Who's Who of American Wrestlers." Probably his most famous accolade came in 1988 when he was chosen as the 1st Alternate
to the Olympic Games for the Greco Roman Wrestling Team. Other credits include; Sombo National and World Cup Champion, Silver
Medalist Pan American Games, Greco Roman, and 6 time All-Marine Champion ('84-'89). He was ranked as high as 2nd in the Nation
in Freestyle and was on the Soviet Union Tour for Freestyle in 1986.
Coach Seemiller & Biedrycki in their Final Match together
Coaching Staff 2004
Coaches Dodge, Seemiller, and Biedrycki
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