Frank Beasley enters his third season as head coach of the George Mason wrestling team for the 2019-20 season. In 2018-19, Beasley guided the Patriots to their best season in many years.
2018-2019 Season Highlights
- Most wins at the NCAA Championships in 18 years
- First winning dual meet record in eleven years
- Highest ever EWL tournament finish
- Most ever EWL dual meet wins and highest dual meet finish
- Most ever EWL finalist
- First EWL Champion
- Most ever EWL medalist
- Most NWCA Academic All-Americans in 26 years
- Most ever student-athletes ranked in the RPI and Coaches Ranking
- Highest regular season wins by pin in the country
- Most NCAA Qualifiers in eighteen years (tied with last season)
- Prior to George Mason, Beasley spent five seasons as a member of the North Carolina State coaching staff, including two as the associate head coach.
- Four straight top twenty NCAA team finishes (longest stretch of top twenty finishes in school history)
- Two individual NCAA Championships
- Seven individual NCAA All-American honors
- Seven individual ACC Champions
- ACC Team Championship
- Thirty-one NCAA Qualifiers
- The NC State Team was ranked 2nd in the country in dual meets to end the 2016 season
Before coaching at NC State, Beasley was the head assistant at both Buffalo and Binghamton. He started his career coaching at his alma matter, Bloomsburg.
- Binghamton had its best season in history with a 14th place finish at the NCAA Champions, 5 NCAA Qualifiers all finished in the top sixteen, two All-Americans
- Buffalo had its best three year run in program history with 14 wrestlers qualifying for the NCAA Championships and five MAC Champions
- Bloomsburg produced their first All-American in more than a decade and produced nine NCAA Qualifiers
Beasley has extensive international experience. He has guided countless wrestlers to freestyle and Greco-Roman All-American and National Championship honors. In 2017, he was part of the Team USA Freestyle Coaching Staff that won the UWW World Championships in Paris. He was the personal coach of world bronze medalist, Nick Gwiazdowski. In addition, he was the head coach of the Wolfpack Regional Training Center that finished 2nd in the RTC Cup standings at the U.S. Open in 2017. He was also the head coach of the NWCA All-American Team in 2009 (South Korea) and 2010 (Russia).
Camden Eppert enters his second season as the head assistant coach of George Mason wrestling for the 2019-20 season.
2018-2019 Season Highlights
- Most wins at the NCAA Championships in 18 years
- First winning dual meet record in eleven years
- Highest ever EWL tournament finish
- Most ever EWL dual meet wins and highest dual meet finish
- Most ever EWL finalist
- First EWL Champion
- Most ever EWL medalist
- Most NWCA Academic All-Americans in 26 years
- Most ever student-athletes ranked in the RPI and Coaches Ranking
- Highest regular season wins by pin in the country
- Most NCAA Qualifiers in eighteen years (tied with last season)
Prior to Mason, Eppert spent four coaching at the University of Wisconsin.
- The team finished 23rd, 17th, and 13th at the NCAA Championships in his three years on staff
- He mentored two NCAA Finalist and four overall All-Americans
- He assisted the Wisconsin team to three straight top eight finishes at the Big Ten Tournament
- Twenty NCAA Qualifiers
Before coaching at Wisconsin, Eppert was an assistant at Wabash College
- 3rd place NCAA D3 National Championships
- Coached two NCAA Champions
- Coached four overall NCAA D3 All-Americans
DePalma joined the coaching staff in September 2019, after coaching one season at Edinboro University.
The native of Jeannette, Pa. wrestled for the Fighting Scots as a redshirt freshman in 2012-13 before transferring to Kent State. He wrapped up his competitive career with the Golden Flashes, earning All-American honors as a senior.
After graduating from Kent State in 2016, DePalma spent two years as a resident athlete at The Ohio State University Ohio Regional Training Center. He trained under World Team member Tervel Dlagnev, and competed in numerous international freestyle wrestling competitions. He competed in both the 2017 and 2018 U.S. Opens, before retiring from competition to begin his coaching career.
DePalma started for Kent State for three seasons at 149 lbs. He capped his career with an All-American performance at the 2016 NCAA Division I National Championships. He finished fifth at 149 lbs., going 6-2 with wins over the number four, five and nine seeds. He was a three-time national qualifier for the Golden Flashes.
DePalma won the 2016 Mid-American Conference Championship and placed third at the MAC Championships both his sophomore and junior seasons. He went 2-2 at Nationals, including a win over seventh seed Gus Sako of Virginia. He totaled 11 wins over nationally-ranked opponents.
As a Fighting Scot, DePalma finished third at the PSAC Championships and fifth at the EWL Championships. He was named to the 2013 Amateur Wrestling News All-Rookie Team.
Overall, DePalma had 97 wins in his collegiate career.