The Staff

SUZANNE HEDLUND
Head Table

The "real" tournament director, Suzanne has directed the head table at over 65 wrestling tournaments including the past 39 TOC tournaments. This will be her 40th TOC. Suzanne was a PE teacher at Georgetown School before moving over to Camerado Springs Middle School in Cameron Park. She is a former volleyball, track and basketball coach and her volleyball and basketball teams won numerous county championships in both schools over the years. Suzanne was also recognized by the California Wrestling Hall of Fame and was inducted as a Lifetime Service Award member in May, 2010. Rod and Suzanne celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary in August 2011.

A true wrestling family, the Hedlunds have two boys, Drew and Blake, who both placed numerous times in the TOC and went on to have outstanding high school wrestling careers. Drew also wrestled at Cuesta College (placing 5th in State 1996), was an assistant coach at Cuesta for 2 years while attending Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and has refereed high school and several TOC tournaments over the years. He now lives in San Francisco. Blake is a computer consultant in Contra Costa County and lives in Martinez, CA Blake has assisted at the TOC for the past 8 years at the head table.

ROGER CLOUGH
Assistant Director

Serving as Rod Hedlund's behind the scenes-right-hand-man for many years is Roger Clough. A native of the Georgetown area, he wrestled at and graduated from Ponderosa HS and attended Sac City College where he wrestled for the legendary Bill Hickey. Roger organizes the scorekeeping help, tournament set up, staging, and weigh ins at Elk Grove. An invaluable member of the TOC staff for over 20 years, Roger has also coached junior high school wrestling at Northside and Georgetown Schools as well as assisting at Golden Sierra HS. Roger's two sons, Josh and Patrick were outstanding wrestlers at Golden Sierra. Patrick continued his wrestling career at Sierra College from 1998-2000 and Josh was the Georgetown School wrestling coach from 2003-2009 and assists in set up, seeding, and weigh ins at the TOC.

STEVE COLE
Assistant Director

Since moving the tournament to Del Oro HS, Steve is the reason the tournament facility is set up and well organized. A veteran at running all sorts of tournaments, including the Sac-Joaquin Section tournament, Steve is in charge of facility set up, including mat moving, head table set up and personnel for gate, security, snack bar and score tables. Steve graduated from Roseville HS and wrestled at both Sierra College and Chico State College. He has been an assistant coach at both Del Oro and Sierra College, coaches kids freestyle club wrestling and is highly active in the Sacramento Area Wrestling Association. He has been in charge of many freestyle tournaments at the local and state level, high school section tournaments and has run all the tournaments at Del Oro HS for the past 20 plus years. Steve was recognized for his lifelong commitment to wrestling in April 2009 when he was inducted into the California Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Lifetime Service Award winner. His expertise in organizing the facility, staging area and remote head table in the other gym is invaluable to the TOC. He owns Cole Construction and Cole Christmas Tree Farm and lives in Newcastle. Steve and wife, Vivian, have 2 grown children and 2 grand daughters.

JERRY LOSCALZO

For over 20 years, Jerry has been the primary head table announcer and in addition also helps with staging the wrestlers. Jerry has been part of the TOC organization in a variety of positions including breakfast cooking in the early morning and weigh ins the evening before the tourney. His three sons, Vince, Jason and Tony all wrestled for GSHS where Tony was a league MVP and wrestled at Embry Riddle College and now serves the USA in the FBI. His oldest son, Vince, is a teacher and former wrestling coach at Herbert Green MS. and currently coaches high school football. Middle son, Jason, is the head strength and conditioning coach for the football team at Boston College.

JOHN PIPARO

John has become a permanent fixture in the staging area while working the TOC for many years. He's the guy with the big beard and long ponytail ! He is friendly to the wrestlers, extremely efficient and works tirelessly all day while staging over 1100 matches!! John works as a school bus mechanic and coaches the defense for the Golden Sierra varsity football team. John's sons, Joseph and Jason were very successful wrestlers at Golden Sierra. Jason now attends Butte College. Daughter Donna is mentioned below.

JOHN DANIELS

Friends of wrestling and fellow educators, John and Joanne are the parents of two girls who never wrestled! John served as assistant coach at Golden Sierra and also coached at Georgetown School where he was a science teacher for 15 years before moving over to teach science at Golden Sierra. John has worked weigh ins, staging, computer help, and organized table help and the end of tournament photography for over 25 years.

CHUCK WILFLEY

Our computer man extraordinaire is Chuck Wilfley. For the past few years since the computer has organized the TOC, Chuck has been the operator in charge. His expertise in organizing the technology aspect of the TOC is beyond compare. Chuck's sons Jesse and Aiden both wrestled at Golden Sierra. Chuck continues to run the head table with Suzanne Hedlund and Michele Roman in a highly efficient manner.

MICHELE ROMAN

Michele and Steve Roman have been an integral part of the TOC for years. The lived in Sacramento for many years and now have relocated to the San Diego area. No matter, every year they travel north to help at the TOC. Michele works at the head table and then with the awards presentation while Steve continues to officiate matches. He has been selected from both the Sac Joaquin and the San Diego sections for the California High School State tournament

DAVID PUBLICOVER

Now in charge of the alternative education programs for the El Dorado County Office of Education, Dave was a 1975 TOC champion at 122 lbs while wrestling for Rogers Junior High in San Jose. A section champion at Blackford HS (San Jose), Dave attended Fresno State and then coached at Montgomery HS in Santa Rosa before moving over to Georgetown School to teach 8th grade English and coach the Georgetown wrestling team for several years. While assisting in set up, weigh ins and coaching over the years Dave has also worked at the head table at the TOC in a variety of positions including computer operations.

REX AND JACKIE DE MARTINI, SEAN BARRY, SCOTT ROBERTS

Rex , Jackie, Scott and Sean are Del Oro wrestling parents who have been running the head table at wrestling tournaments for many years. An expert at organization, Rex runs the computer with Sean, Jackie does the paper trail and teaming with the Del Oro staff they run the 5 mats in the small gym flawlessly at the TOC. We are fortunate to have their expertise at the TOC every year. These guys have also run the head table at the Sac Joaquin Masters meet the past 5 years.

JENNIFER CLOUGH – DONNA PIPARO

Jennifer, now a Sophomore Nursing major at Boise State College has been working at wrestling tournaments since she could walk! A June 2010 graduate of Golden Sierra HS, she is in charge of keeping the brackets updated at TOC, works on the program and many other preliminary tasks in the organization of the tournament. Incredibly dedicated and efficient, Jennifer has been an invaluable member of the TOC staff for many years. Donna, was a stat girl all through high school and has worked many years at the TOC. Now a mom and a cheerleading advisor at Golden Sierra, Donna and Jennifer are the reason the TOC brackets are always currently updated throughout the day.

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