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Head Coach: Mark Mead
Along with being the assistant coach for the Normans for the past two years, Coach Mead teaches English at Beverly Hills High School.
 He is trained in martial arts and is a competitive triathlete.  He brings much to the team by way of discipline, focus, and conditioning,
flexibility and strength training. Coach Mead is also a member and a coach of the Dynamo MMA Sports Club in Beverly Hills
(www.dynamoclub.com). He holds a brown belt in Sambo and a black belt in judo.  This is his first year as head coach of the Normans
having taken over from Coach Villegas who now assists.
Assistant Coach: Kevin Villegas













While on active duty, he was meritoriously promoted out of boot camp, and later served as part of the 24th Marine Expeditionary
Unit/Special Operations Capable during OPERATION RESTORE HOPE and OPERATION CONTINUE HOPE in Kismayu and
Mogadishu, Somalia, earning a Certificate of Commendation for “superior performance in the execution of his duties.” In March of
1993 he was chosen as his unit’s Marine of the Quarter.  He also served in OPERATION SEA SIGNAL in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
and was stationed in Keflavik, Iceland, for seven months, and on board the USS Nashville for six months.  Other duty stations
included the Naval Air Station at Norfolk, Va., and Camp Lejune in Jacksonville, N.C.  Through his time in the service he also trained
in Puerto Rico, Alaska, California, Kuwait, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates.

In 1998, Coach Villegas earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication with a minor in peace and conflict studies from Messiah
College.  While a student at Messiah, Coach Villegas wrestled and was mentored under hall-of-fame Coach Neil Turner.  He also
worked in the school’s Office of Community Relations, the Career Center, and interned in the press office for the Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation and in former Governor Tom Ridge’s press office.  He began working for Messiah College in 1999 as
the school’s public relations coordinator.  In 2004, Villegas moved over to the Office of Residence Life to work more closely with
students as a residence director of two buildings and to have more involvement with the wrestling team as an assistant coach under
Head Coach Bryan Brunk.

Along with having a heart for students and a passion for the sport of wrestling, Coach Villegas is passionate about working within
other cultures.  He is currently a full-time graduate student working towards a Master of Arts degree in crosscultural studies from
Fuller Theological Seminary’s School of Intercultural Studies in Pasadena, Calif., and a Master of Business Administration in
international development from Hope International University in Fullerton, Calif. He has prior experience working crossculturally in
Portugal, with Angolan refugee children; in the Philippines through Food for the Hungry International; and in the Dominican Republic
through Bridge Builders.

Villegas is a member of USA Wrestling and the American Amateur Sambo Federation. He serves as a coaching consultant for the
Dynamo MMA Sports Club (www.dynamoclub.com) in Beverly Hills where he is also a member, holding a brown belts in Sambo and
Judo.

In his spare time, Coach Villegas loves to read and watch movies (not at the same time). His absolute favorite thing to do is spend
time with his wife of more than 12 years, Minoska, and their eight-year-old daughter, Isabel.  The 2008–2009 season will mark his
third year coaching the Normans, two as head coach and this season as assistant.
Born and raised in New York City, Coach Villegas graduated from high school in 1990 from Monsignor Farrell—a prestigious, all-boys,
Catholic high school in Staten Island, N.Y. While there, he learned to wrestle and became only the third person in the city’s history to
win four consecutive CHSAA New York City wrestling titles (1986–1990).  He was also crowned a CHSAA New York State champion in
1989 in the 119-lb. weight class, and led his team, as captain, to their first-ever CHSAA state team title in 1990. Villegas says he
owes his success to his great high school coaches—Dave Ironman, Joe Wainwright, John Gallucci, Father Emmit Nevin, and Nick
Ruggerio—and to his peers Chris O'Byrne, Peter Hamm, and Brian Shields.

He was recruited by and attended Hunter College in Manhattan immediately following high school and started as a varsity wrestler
there for long-time coach Bob Gaudenzi. After one semester, he left to serve a total of nine years in the United States Marine
Corps—four years on active duty as a security forces specialist, an infantry rifleman, and a company radio operator; four years in
the inactive reserves while in school; and then one year in the active reserves in a peacetime/wartime support team as a public
affairs specialist.  He was honorably discharged after attaining the rank of sergeant.
 

Volunteer Assistant Coach: Boris Brezhnev
Coach Boris Brezhnev, who has a 6th degree (Rokudan) black belt in Judo and is a Master in Sambo, has specialized in Sambo and
Judo wrestling for 37 years. He is also an Honored Licensed International Referee for Sambo wrestling. He was a member of the 1980
U.S.S.R. Sambo Olymic Team. In addition, he is a Judo of World Master, president of the American Amateur Sambo Federation's
California Chapter, a member of the USA Judo Federation, and the American Amateur Sambo Federation. Coach Brezhnev is the head
coach of the Dynamo Sports Club in Beverly Hills (www.dynamoclub.com), and coached his son Justin to a gold medal in the U.S.
National Sambo Championships in NYC in May. He recently began competing again, earning a gold medal in the California State
Games for Judo in his division.

Volunteer Assistant Coach: Marty Lockwood
Coach Marty bio forthcoming.  

    Special thanks to Royce Gracie and his team for volunteering their time and talents to help our team as well.
 
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