Staff Directory

Jesse Delgado

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
Joined Brown:
November 2024
Alma Mater:
Illinois '15

Jesse Delgado enters his fifth season with the Bears in 2026-27 after returning to College Hill as an assistant wrestling coach in November of 2024. He was an assistant for the Bears for two seasons (2021-23).

As a collegiate wrestler, Delgado was among the nation’s top 125-pounders all four years while wrestling for the University of Illinois. At Illinois, he won back-to-back national championships at 125 during the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons. He was also the Big Ten Champion at 125 in 2013 and 2014 and named the Most Outstanding Wrestler at the 2013 Big 10 Championships.

Delgado, a three-time NCAA Division I All-American, began his collegiate wrestling career at California Polytechnic State University and transferred to the University of Illinois after redshirting during the 2010-11 school year.