Yero Washington
Associate Head Coach
ISU Wrestling

Former Columbia head assistant wrestling coach Yero (yah-ROO) Washington is in his second season as an assistant coach for Iowa State wrestling. Washington was a club and volunteer wrestling coach at Columbia for the 2008-09 season. He coached at Columbia for a decade, including a stint as head assistant wrestling coach from 2004-07.

Washington first joined the Columbia staff in 2002, as a graduate assistant. After a year as a resident athlete at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, pursuing a berth on the United States Olympic Wrestling Team, Washington returned to Columbia in 2004.

Washington also participated in the Olympic Trials for the 2000 Games after winning the Northwest Regional Qualifier. The 1998 Sunkist International Tournament champion, he has been a member of the U.S. National team, America’s World Cup team and America’s Nations Cup teams.

Born in Berkeley, Calif., Washington was a California state champion in high school in Porterville. A two-time junior college All-American at Fresno City (Calif.) College, Washington won the California State Junior College Championships. Transferring to Fresno State, he twice made All-American, in 1996, when he finished sixth in the nation at 134 pounds, and 1997, when he was third in the nation.

He served as chief assistant wrestling coach at Fresno City College from 1997 to 1999, and was on the 1999-2000 Fresno State staff, working closely with Stephen Abas, a three-time NCAA champion, along with Stan Greene, a two-time NCAA All-American.

Washington earned his bachelor of science degree from Fresno State in 1999.

 

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