A pair of coaches have been added to the New York University wrestling team staff, it was announced on Monday, October 21.
Ken Bigley and
Steven Keith will both serve as assistant coaches on Head Coach
Bruce Haberli's staff. Bigley will work mainly with the upper weight classes while Keith will help with the lower weight classes. Both coaches will help run practices.
Bigley, a 1999 graduate of the University of Northern Iowa, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in environmental planning with a minor in ethics, graduating
magna cum laude. He went on to graduate school at Ohio University and earned a Masters of Sports Administration and Facility Management in 2001.
Bigley has accumulated extensive coaching and administrative experience. While at Ohio, he served as an assistant coach of the wrestling program from 1999-2001, then held the same position at Princeton University for a year before moving to Brown University, working with their wrestling program from 2002-05.
In 2005, Bigley was hired as the Director of Athletics at Trevor Day School in New York City, where he held the position until 2011. He went on to serve as Director of Athletics at Souhegan High School in Amherst, NH, working there until 2012.
Upon returning to New York City in 2012, Bigley held positions as Programming Director at Beat the Streets (through September 2019) and as PSAL Sports Coordinator (he still maintains that position). He has served as a wrestling committee member at the New York Athletic Club since 2005, is a native of Sugar Camp, WI, and resides in Island Park, NY.
Keith is a 2013 graduate of Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. A four-year varsity wrestler and senior captain for the Crimson, he qualified for the NCAA Division I Championship all four years and earned All-America honors at 133 pounds in 2012.
Keith brings extensive coaching experience to his new position at NYU. In 2013-14, he served as an assistant coach for Stanford University's wrestling team and as the head coach of the Cardinal Wrestling Club, coaching student-athletes between the ages of five and 18. More recently, Keith served as a volunteer assistant coach at both Brown University and Johnson and Wales University from 2016-18. While there, he also held the position of Executive Director at Beat the Streets Providence.
A native of Shoreham, NY, who resides in Manhattan, Keith began working at Beat the Streets New York as the Training Center Coordinator in January 2019.