Meet our coaches and staff
Below are the amazing coaches and parents that made this club a possibility.
Nick Stever
Coach Nick grew up wrestling in the Central Valley of California. He wrestled for one of the top wrestling programs in the state of California- Oakdale High School. He also wrestled at the collegiate level for Modesto Junior College. He was a league and sub-section place. He is happily married with two sons that compete for the San Clemente Youth Wrestling Club. This year marks Coach Nick’s 20th year coaching youth sports. He also serves as a Principal of a local middle school. In his free time he enjoys the beach, skiing, training, and most of all, quality family time.
Joe Morales
Coach Joe played football and wrestled in high school, and in college before he began his coaching journey in 1985. He has been coaching youth sports for over 33 years and has a deep passion for watching his youth athlete succeed not only in sports, but in life. Joe is happily married with 2 sons that have been wrestling with the San Clemente Youth Wrestling club, and have moved onto the San Clemente High School team. When he isn’t in the SC wrestling room, you will find him on the mats at Gracie-Barra Brazilian Jiu-jitsu as an instructor for the youth competition team.
Coach Tony
Coach Tony just recently moved to San Clemente in October of 2017. Originally from New England, he wrestled for one of the top high schools in the state of Connecticut. He was the captain of his wrestling team in his senior year, 2 times all conference champion and was ranked 7th in his state in his junior year. Tony was being looked at by Ohio State University for a possible wrestling scholarship until he tore his ACL in his senior year. Since then, Tony finds great passion in coaching the youth athletes. He enjoys watching them not only excel in sports, but grow as individuals. Tony has been coaching youth sports for 12 years now, and was a high school physical education and health teacher before coming out to beautiful California. Tony is happily married with 2 children who are his everything. His son, Devin, participates in the beginner level wrestling team. Outside of coaching Tony loves fitness, rock climbing, yoga and being a dad!