Coach DeFreitas grew up in Bernardsville, New Jersey and has been involved in coaching several youth teams including soccer, flag football and tackle football over the last several years. He brings a philosophy of “fun first” for youth sports.

As a wrestler starting at the age of 8 he won several junior state titles he compiled a High School record of 106-16-1 winning several OW awards and a multiple time state place winner. He was a member of the Cadet and Junior National teams that represented his home state at the High School National Tournaments. Upon graduation he held several school records, a three-sport athlete he was inducted into the Bernards High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001.

In college he wrestled for Indiana University and was a varsity letterman on a nationally ranked team. In 2014 he won the Beach Wrestling National Tournament.

Coach DeFreitas resides in Cary and owns a real estate firm building and developing in the triangle area. He and his wife Rachael have 3 kids; Lily, Annabella and Gabe. His favorite hobby is surfing at the NC coast.

The 2020 Wolfpack Club team swept all 3 state championship tournaments; USA wrestling, NCWAY and the rookie division at the State championships. The club outscored over 100 teams from across NC with multiple individual state champions.

Coach Cesari grew up in Northeastern Pennsylvania and started wrestling at the age of six, and has been involved in the sport of wrestling for over 46 years as a wrestler, coach, referee, and parent of a wrestler.

Cesari wrestled in high school for his father, Joe Cesari Sr., at North Schuylkill High School , one of the most successful wrestling programs in Pennsylvania history. While at North Schuylkill, Cesari was a 3x PA State Champion and 2x State Tournament Outstanding Wrestler. His record was 154-5-1 with 103 pins, and in 1984 he was named to the First Team High School All-American Team as well as a World Schoolboy and National AAU Freestyle Wrestling Champion.

Cesari earned a full scholarship to wrestle at North Carolina State University, where he was a 4-year starter. Cesari was a 1988 ACC Champion, a 3x NCAA Tournament qualifier, and an NCAA tournament top-12 finisher. In 1989, Cesari received the NC State ACC Senior Merit award for achievement in academics and athletics.

Coach Cesari currently works as a department director at Duke Health, and stays involved in wrestling as a volunteer youth and high school coach, and as a high school and NCAA wrestling official. In 2006, he was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame.