Wrestling
- Title:
- Head Assistant Coach - Recruiting Coordinator
- Phone:
- 401/863-3987
- Email:
- matthew_meuleners@brown.edu
- Joined Brown:
- Fifth
- Alma Mater:
- Northern State University '13
Matt Meuleners, a two-time NCAA Division II national champion and former assistant coach at the University of Nebraska, enters his fifth season as the top assistant coach and recruiting coordinator with the Brown University wrestling program in 2021-22.
During the 2019-20 season, Meuleners helped developed a young Bears’ team over the course of the season with Brown winning three of its last four dual meets. Ricky Cabanillas ’23 led the Bears with a seventh-place finish at the EIWA Championships and tallied 25 wins, the most for a Brown freshman since 2012. Brown’s 2020-21 competitive season was canceled due to COVID-19.
In 2018-19, Meuleners helped lead a program that posted four NCAA qualifiers, tallied six EIWA placers in back-to-back years for the first time since 2000, placed eighth as a team at the EIWA Championships – marking the program’s highest finish at the conference tournament since 2004 – and totaled five All-Ivy selections for the first time since 2008.
Meuleners helped guide the Bears to a banner year during the 2017-18 season. Brown tied for second in the Ivy League standings, its highest finish since 1997, and posted three Ivy League wins, its most since 2009. The Bears totaled three NCAA qualifiers for the first time since 2008 and tallied six EIWA placers, their most since 2010. Off the mat, Brown tied for first in the EIWA with seven EIWA All-Academic Team honorees.
Serving as a volunteer assistant coach at Nebraska from 2013-17, Meuleners worked primarily with the upper weights and helped Nebraska to a 49-13 dual record and four top-12 finishes at the NCAA Championships. Meuleners served in a variety of roles for the wrestling program and assisted with the Nebraska Regional Wrestling Training Center and summer camps.
Meuleners wrestled at 197 lbs. and heavyweight while attending Northern State University in Aberdeen, S.D., for five years. During his tenure, Meuleners won back-to-back NCAA Division II national titles and graduated as a four-time NCAA All-American.
A native of Young America, Minn., and product of Central High School, Meuleners graduated with a degree in Human Performance and Fitness from Northern State in 2013.
