Victor Lorenzano

Coach Victor began his coaching career at Waldron High School, Indiana in 1985. He began a new program at a small school with only 262 students in grades 6-12. His team compiled a record of 36-34-1 competing against much larger school since there were no divisions in Indiana. Waldron captured the Sectional Championship in only its fourth year of competition. It was the first Sectional Championship in over 25 years for the school in any sport. Lorenzano then moved to Florida to build another program from scratch at Gateway High School. In the schools fourth year of competition Gateway captured the first of four district championships. His teams compiled a record of 80-34-2. During that stretch his teams captured three conference titles, four consecutive District titles, two Region runner-ups, and four top ten finishes in the state. His wrestlers captured six 4th place finishes, one third, four runner-ups, and the schools first state champion. Coach Lorenzano then moved to St. Cloud High School to assist veteran Lee Sill in his final years at the helm. During those three years St. Cloud captured three District titled, one Regional runner-up, finished 9th and 6th in the state, and crowned two state champions in back to back years. His teams have since added seven Orange Belt Conference titles and eight additional District titles. In 2002 his team captured the 3A Regional and State Championship Titles. Coach Lorenzano has over 300 dual match wins in his distinguished career.

Awards:

Year
2007
Award
Lifetime Service to Wrestling
Chapter/Region
Florida

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