2013-2014 Wildcat Wrestling Coaching Staff

  

 

 

 

 Varsity Head Coach  

                  

 

 

 

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Matthew Wadas

Matt Wadas is in his thirteenth year here at Warren County and his ninth as Head Coach. He took over the reigns from former head coach Rodger Seemiller.  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.  He moved to Front Royal where he met Charlie Dodge 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. In 2013 he past Coach Seemiller for career wins at Warren County.  He lives in Luray with his wife, Anna,  who is a teacher at Ressie Jeffries Elementary School and their two daughters Madison and Colleen.


 

 

 

 Assistant Varsity Coach 

 

 

 

 

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Chad Billy

 

 

Chad Billy is in his ninth 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 in 1991 became a Pennsylvania State Champion.  Billy then attended Clarion University of PA for two years before transfering to West Virginia University for his final two years.  While at WVU he racked up numerous accolades including; becoming 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 place-winners, 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Head Junior Varsity/Assistant Varsity Coach

 

 

 


 Mike Detweiler 

Mike Detweiler is in his second year of coaching at Warren County. He was an assistant varsity coach at James Wood High School for three years between 2009-2012 and then spent three years as a head coach at Western Alamance High School located in Elon, North Carolina between 2006-2009. As a head coach, he took two wrestlers to the North Carolina 3A State Tournament. As an assistant coach under Greg Walker; he helped coach two Virginia State Champions and several state placers during his time with the program. He now lives in Front Royal with his wife Carey and their son, Keegan.


 

 


 Varsity Assistant Coach 

Strength and Conditiong Coordinator




Michael Minch


Michael Minch is in his first year with Warren County Wrestling.  He grew up in Jefferson, MD where he began his wrestling career early in elementary school.  He wrestled in the mason dixon junior league with Frederick County Mat Club up until high School.  Michael was a 4 year starter at Brunswick High School in Brunswick, MD. He was a 4 time Frederick County tournament finalist, 2 time champion. 4x regional place winner and 2 time finalist. In 2007 he was 5th in the state of MD at 125LBS. Coach Minch still holds the record for all time wins at Brunswick high school with 132 career wins.  While in school he also played football and baseball. Coach Minch went on to play baseball at Shenandoah University from 2008-2012 under Coach Kevin Anderson. He was an all South Region selection his senior year in 2012.  After college he became an assistant wrestling coach from 2011-2012 at James Wood High in Winchester, VA. Then Coach Minch moved back home and became the varsity assistant coach at Brunswick High the past two seasons. Currently he is teaching Health/Physical Education at Warren County High and also assists with the varsity baseball program..




Junior Varsity Assistant Coach



 



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Greg Sadler

Greg is in his second year at Warren County. He grew up in the midwest and graduated high school in Sioux City, Iowa where he wrestled and played football for over six years. After spending four years in the US Marine Corps, he and his wife, Elaina, settled in Front Royal. 


Greg holds an Associates Degree from Lord Fairfax Community College, a Bachelor's degree from Strayer University and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Business Administration.

 

 

 

 

 

 Varsity/JV Assistant Coach 

 

 

 

 

 

Cody Buterbaugh

 

Cody Buterbaugh comes from the small town of Bedford, Pennsylvania. Wrestling since grade school, he was a starter on the Bedford High School squad for his sophomore and junior year, where the team shared success at the state level. In 2008, they achieved 6th place at the PIAA team duals state championship. While sidelined by injury his senior year, the team went on and placed 4th at the team duals championship in 2009. While in high school, he competed in Track & Field, Football, and Cross Country.

                Buterbaugh is a 2009 graduate of Bedford High School, and a 2013 graduate of the California University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in Technology Education. He moved to Warren County in pursuit of a career, and is currently teaching Technology Education at Warren County High School.  In his free time, Buterbaugh enjoys the outdoors often hunting or fishing.


 

 

 

 

 

 Head Middle School Wrestling Coach 

 

 

 

 

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Steve Burton

Steve Burton is in his sixteenth 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.


 

 

 

 

 Assistant Middle School Coach 

 

 


 

 

Adam Orndorff  


 Adam Orndorff is in his ninth year with Warren County and his eighth year with the wrestling program.  This is his first year with the middle school team. Coach Orndorff was the Head JV Coach at WC for eight years and a the Mat Cats Coach for 3 years.  Coach O grew up just down the road in Stephen's City and wrestled and played football at Sherando 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 O then went on to earn his master's degree at Virginia Tech and is currently teaching PE at Ressie Jefferies Elementary school.  He lives in Front Royal with his wife Lindsey, son Logan, and daughter Mackenzie. 



 


 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 Warren County Wrestling Coach's Hall of Fame

 

 

 

 


Charlie Dodge (1986-1999)

 

 

 


 

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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

 

 

 

 

 

 


Stephen Biedrycki (2000-2006)

 

 



 

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Coach Biedrycki came 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.  While at Warren County he helped the team deveope numerous district, region, and state placewinners.  Coach B was also instrumental in running the next level wrestling club that brought WC its first state championship in freestyle in 2003.