Five months was all it took to push Izzak Olejnik to enter the coaching realm.
What would that entail? As of March, the moment his graduate season of college wrestling at Oklahoma State concluded at nationals, he hadn’t a clue. But spending nearly a half a year wrestling under former OSU head coach John Smith had convinced him to pursue a longtime dream – becoming a head coach.
“Just being able to wrestle for him for a whole year, I learned a whole bunch of stuff,” Olejnik told The O’Colly. “And just kind of the style he coaches in, you can’t really replicate it.