Columbia University Wrestling

Billy Janzer joined the Columbia wrestling program as an assistant coach in September of 2025. Janzer joins the staff after serving as a graduate assistant c...

Dominick Saldutti joined the Columbia University Athletics Sports Performance staff in September of 2025 as Assistant Director of Sports Performance. Saldutt...

Donny Pritzlaff was named Columbia University’s Andrew F. Barth Head Coach of Wrestling on June 18, 2024. Pritzlaff comes to Columbia after spending the past...

Jeff Buxton was hired as the John Huemer Assistant Coach of Wrestling in September 2024. He joins the Columbia staff with over 32 years of coaching experienc...

Jessica De Palo is in her 15th year with Columbia Athletics. As Columbia's Senior Associate Athletics Director for Success Through Well-Being, she oversees the day-to-day operations of the Success Through Well-Being program, which supports all department matters related to academics, career development, mental performance, sports nutrition, and well-being. De Palo also serves as a member of the senior management team. Prior to arriving at Columbia, De Palo was the managing director of The Focus Room, a qualitative research provider in New York City, from 2008 to 2011. De Palo has an extensive background in intercollegiate athletics, having served as an assistant women's basketball coach at Iona College from 2006 to 2008 and as a women's basketball graduate assistant coach at Lehigh University from 2005 to 2006. She was also a team captain and Patriot League Player of the Year for the Lehigh University women's basketball team and is a member of the Lehigh Athletics Hall of Fame. De Palo graduated from Lehigh University in 2005 with a degree in Marketing and earned a master's degree in Elementary Education in 2006. In 2018, she completed a master's degree in Psychology in Education with a concentration in Spirituality and Contemplative Practices in the Department of Counseling & Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. In 2022, she completed a Fulbright-EDUFI Fellowship in Jyväskylä, Finland. De Palo earned her Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Interdisciplina

2024 Olympic Bronze Medalist Sebastian Rivera joined the Columbia wrestling staff in September 2024 as the David and Michael Barry Assistant Coach of Wrestli...