Tim Cysewski Position: Head Coach Experience: 19 years Alma Mater: Iowa, 1976

Tim Cysewski is in his 19th season as Northwestern's head wrestling coach. Under Cysewski's direction, 23 Wildcats have earned All-America honors and 73 wrestlers have qualified for the NCAA Championships.

In addition, he has produced two national champions and 10 Big Ten titlists. In his rookie year as head coach, Cysewski led Northwestern to a best-ever fourth-place finish at the NCAA Championships and a third-place finish in the Big Ten, which he replicated in the 2006-07 season.

Cysewski took over as the Wildcats' head coach after serving eight seasons as an assistant under Tom Jarman. During that time, the Jarman-Cysewski tandem compiled a 108-79-1 record and produced seven All-Americans in eight years.

Cysewski, 55, also has been active in his career on the international coaching scene. He was invited to coach a squad at the 1993 U.S. Olympic Festival and served as an assistant coach for the 1990 U.S. Wrestling Team at the World Cup Championships. He served as the head coach on the 1985-86 and 1988-89 ESPOIR World Cup teams, as well as the 1985 and 1986 U.S. National Team.

In 2005, Cysewski served as head coach at the Pan Am Games, and invited to be head coach at the NWCA All-Star Classic.

As a competitor, Cysewski captured many titles, including the World Cup Championship, the Pan Am Games, the New Zealand Games, the National Federation Championship and the AAU Championship. He is also a former All-American, U.S. World Team member and a five-time Midlands champion. Cysewski is a member of the Illinois Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Midlands Hall of Fame.

A four-year starter at the University of Iowa, Cysewski earned All-America honors as a senior in 1976. He placed third nationally at 134 pounds that season and was co-captain of the national-champion Hawkeyes. At the Big Ten Championships, he placed second as a sophomore (126) and senior (134), and third as a freshman (126). During his college career, he won two Midlands titles, posted a 99-23-4 career record and graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration (1977).

Following graduation, Cysewski served as an assistant coach for the Hawkeye Wrestling Club and went on to win the last three of his five-consecutive Midlands titles. He also has served for six years on the National Wrestling Coaches Association, as well as four years on the NCAA Rules Committee.

A native of Glenview, Ill., Cysewski won the 119-pound prep title at Glenbrook South High School in 1972.

Cysewski and his wife, Kim, have two children, Kate and Mark. The Cysewskis live in Lincolnshire, Ill.