Harvard University

Jimmy Sheptock enters his fourth year as an assistant coach at Harvard in 2022-23.
 
Harvard returned to the mat in the 2021-22 season following the COVID-19 pandemic with Philip Conigliaro leading the Crimson as the EIWA champion at 165 pounds and earning a berth in the NCAA Championships.
 
In 2019-20, Conigliaro and Yaraslau Slavikouski both earned spots at the NCAA Championships before the event was canceled due to COVID-19. Slavikouski captured All-America honors as well as earning Ivy League Rookie of the Year and EIWA Rookie of the Year. The Crimson did not compete in 2020-21 due to COVID-19.
 
Sheptock comes to Cambridge after a three-year stint at his alma mater, the University of Maryland, where he spent two seasons as an assistant coach before being elevated to associate head coach prior to the 2018-19 campaign. During his time in College Park, Sheptock helped Maryland send eight Terrapins to the NCAA Championships with heavyweight Youssif Hemida earning All-America honors in 2018 and 2019. Youssif became Maryland’s eighth wrestler to earn All-America accolades multiple times in a career and the first since Sheptock accomplished the feat in 2014.
 
The three-time ACC champion and NCAA qualifier began his coaching career at Drexel where he helped the Dragons to 10 dual-meet wins in 2015-16, the program’s most since 2008-09. In that season, Sheptock helped six Drexel wrestlers reach the EIWA podium with two winning conference titles and seven earning a spot at the 2016 NCAA meet.
 
Before moving into the coaching ranks, Sheptock graduated in 2014 as one of Maryland’s most storied wrestlers. In addition to his three ACC titles, three NCAA appearances and two All-America honors while competing at 174 and 184 pounds, Sheptock compiled a record of 129-20 and was an unblemished 51-0 in dual matches with 67 bonus-point victories. His finest season came in 2013-14, when he finished with a 32-1 record after clinching an NCAA finals berth, ACC championship and Midlands title.