Max Mejia (Harvard '15) enters his second year as head coach of the Augsburg University women's wrestling team in 2020-21, after being named the first head coach of the women's wrestling team for its inaugural season in 2019-20.
Augsburg Coaching Highlights
2019-20: Led Augsburg to a 4-2 overall record in it's inaugural season, finishing 6th at the WCWA National Championships and 9th at the NWCA National Collegiate Women's Championships. Emily Shilson won both WCWA and NWCA national titles, at 109 pounds. Four Auggies earned NWCA All-American honors.
Previous Coaching Experience
A native of Chandler, Ariz., and a 2015 graduate of Harvard University, Mejia brings a broad level of experience with several levels of girls' and women's wrestling to his coaching role with the Auggies. Most recently, he has served for three years as Women's and Developmental Coach at the Sunkist Kids Regional Training Center in Tempe, Ariz. The Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club has produced 55 Olympic medalists in both men's and women's wrestling. He also serves as head coach and women's coach for the Sunkist Kids Wrestling Academy. In recent years at the Sunkist Kids RTC and Sunkist Kids Wrestling Academy, Mejia has helped coach a World Team Trials champion and another finalist, two senior national team members, a U.S. Open champion, finalist and placewinner, and four Arizona high school state champions.
In addition to his work with Sunkist Kids, Mejia also serves as head coach for the Chandler (Ariz.) High School girls' wrestling team, which placed third in the inaugural Arizona state tournament this year with three qualifiers and one state titlist. He also serves as women's director for Arizona USA Wrestling and as a volunteer coach for USA Wrestling, serving as the U15 Pan American Games women's team coach that won the title in Villahermosa, Mexico in 2018.
Personal Notes
Mejia earned his bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard in 2015. He was a member of the Crimson's wrestling program, earning three varsity letters. As a high school wrestler, he was an Arizona state champion and three-time state finalist, while also earning Fargo All-American and FILA Cadet All-American honors.
YEAR-BY-YEAR RECORD
| Year |
Overall Record |
Overall Pct. |
Regional Finish |
National Finish |
Notes |
| 2019-20 |
4-2 |
.667 |
6th |
9th/19 |
Emily Shilson WCWA National Champion |
