Coaching Staff

• USA Wrestling 

  • Copper and Bronze level certified leader

• Coaching

  • Plainfield High School-Head Coach (2020-Present)

    • 1 State Champion (Alicia Tucker '23)

    • 3 State Placers (1st, 2nd, 4th)

    • 4 State Qualifiers 

  • Plainfield High School- Assistant (2019-2020)

    • 2 State Qualifiers

    • 1 State Placers (6th)

  • Joliet Catholic Academy- Assistant (2018-2019)

    • 2 State Qualifiers

    • 1 State Champion (Dean Hamiti)

  • Hempstead High School- Assistant (Dubuque, Iowa) 2016-2018

    • 18 State Qualifiers

    • 6 State Placers (2nd, 3rd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th)

    • 7th Place State Team

  • Beckman Catholic- Assistant (Dyersville, Iowa) 2015-2016

Coach Whitt has been with the Plainfield Wrestling Program for over 2 years. He went to Waubonsie Valley High School and then went on to graduate from Knox College. He played football for all 4 years of high school and 4 years during college where he was selected to be a team captain during his senior year. After college, he got his first teaching & coaching job at Moline High School in Moline Illinois where he taught and coached for 3 years. He then got his 2nd teaching job at The Plainfield High School where he currently teaches as a special education teacher. In addition to coaching wrestling he also coaches football at the freshman level.