Joe Evano was named the first Head Coach for the Vanguard Women's Wrestling in November 2021. Evano had been serving as an assistant
| YEAR |
MPSF FINISH |
TEAM POINTS |
| 24-25 |
2/2 |
13 (dual v Menlo) |
| YEAR |
CCC-FINISH |
TEAM POINTS |
| 23-24 |
4/7 |
82 |
| 22-23 |
5/6 |
73 |
| Career |
3rd avg |
56 avg |
coach on the men's side for three years, where he helped to relaunch the program back in the 2019-2020 school year.
Evano’s collegiate career began at Mount San Antonio Community College in Walnut, California. During his time at Mt. SAC, Evano placed seventh in the California Junior College State Championships which would be a benchmark of things to come. He then transferred to William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa. During the 2002 season at WPU, he was named an NAIA Mid-America Conference Champion, bettering that result his senior year by once again winning a conference title and adding an NAIA All-American honor to his accolades as he secured the 2003 NAIA National Championship.
Following his own career on the mat, he immediately moved into a coaching role, first starting off as a Graduate Assistant at William Penn University before moving to Los Alamitos High School. At Los Alamitos, he focused on the upper-weight wrestlers, participated in live sparing, and created conditioning and practice programs. Starting in December 2015, he has searved as a volunteer coach at Mount San Antonio Community College, where he has helped educate wrestlers on practice and match strategy, training techniques, and live sparring.
While not wrestling Joe loves spending time watching his daughters Emily and Andie play soccer or being at the beach with his wife Jen.
