Donnie Vinson will be the new head coach of the Buffalo Bulls after stints as an assistant coach at NC State and most recently Cornell.
Donnie Vinson, a native of New York, has been named the Buffalo Bulls’ new head coach. Vinson will be leaving Ithaca, New York, which is a few hours east of Buffalo, where he spent the last three seasons as the associate head coach at Cornell University, for his new position, so he won’t have to go far.
At Binghamton University, also in New York, Vinson was an All-American who ended with a 132-27 record and four NCAA Championship qualifications.
Watch Vinson, in his senior year, upset Mario Mason of Rutgers in the 2012 Journeymen Northeast Duals:
Soon after graduation, Vinson started working as an assistant coach at his alma university, Binghamton, for the whole 2013–14 season. After that, he moved to Ithaca to serve as a volunteer assistant coach at Cornell for his first assignment, which ran from 2014 to 2017.
His next destination was Raleigh, North Carolina, where from 2017 until 2021 he will rejoin Pat Popolizio, his undergraduate coach at NC State. After that, Vinson would return to the Empire State to work as an associate head coach at Cornell for a second time.
John Stutzman, who oversaw the Bulls wrestling program for the previous 11 years, is replaced by Vinson. During those seasons, 29 wrestlers from the Bulls qualified for the NCAAs.
