Honors & Accomplishments
• Has been on the sidelines for 12 Ivy League and 11 EIWA titles, as well as 11 top 10 NCAA team finishes.
• Twelve Big Red wrestlers have earned NCAA titles with 48 All-Americans and 42 EIWA champs during his tenure.
• Helped to put together five top 10 nationally ranked recruiting classes.
Coaching Experience
• Associate Head Coach, Cornell University (2013-present)
• Assistant Coach, Cornell University (2006-13)
Wrestling Experience
• University of Minnesota (2000-04)
• Two-Time NCAA champion
• Four-Time All-American
• Three-Time Big Ten Champion
• 2004 Jesse Owens Male Athlete of the Year award winner for top male athlete in the Big Ten
• 118-21 career record
• 2008 Olympic Trials runner-up
Education
• B.A., Education and Youth Studies, Minnesota (2004)
At Cornell
Damion Hahn has played an instrumental role in Cornell wrestling’s success for more than a decade since joining the program as an assistant with the middle and heavyweight wrestlers in 2006. He was promoted to Associate Head Coach during the 2013-14 season.
Hahn has tutored many of the nation's top wrestlers at the upper weights, working with national champions like Steve Bosak, Cam Simaz, Gabe Dean, Max Dean and Ben Darmstadt. The Big Red has won the Ivy League title in every season with Hahn on the sidelines, as well as 11 EIWA titles and 11 top 10 NCAA finishes in his first 12 years.
While on the sidelines with the Big Red as Rob Koll’s right hand man, Hahn has helped the Big Red to 12 NCAA individual titles, 48 All-America honors, 42 individual EIWA champions and 62 first-team All-Ivy selections. Cornell is a perfect 60-0 in Ivy League dual meets and 139-34-1 record overall while never finishing lower than 12th at the NCAA meet.
Since Hahn arrived on East Hill, Cornell has also annually yielded one of the top recruiting classes in the country with five groups ranked in the top 10 nationally and four in the top five, including the No. 2 class of 2012 according to d1collegewrestling.
Wrestling Career
A 2004 graduate of Minnesota with a degree in education and youth studies, he wrapped up his Golden Gopher career ranking 12th all-time in career victories with a 118-21 record. Included was a 33-1 mark during his senior season in 2003-04 when he won his second straight national title. Hahn became the third wrestler in school history to capture two NCAA titles when he won back-to-back crowns in 2003 and 2004 and the fourth four-time All-American at Minnesota, as well as the fifth three-time Big Ten champion in school history. He received the 2004 Jesse Owens Male Athlete of the Year award, given to the top male athlete in the Big Ten conference. As a freshman on redshirt, Hahn very nearly gave Cael Sanderson his only collegiate loss (a 4-3 loss).
Hahn is considered one of the top high school wrestlers of all time, winning three New Jersey state titles and three junior national freestyle titles while attending Lakewood HS. He was a three-time high school All-American who went 131-3 in his career.
After graduation, Hahn continued to compete on the international level, ending his freestyle wrestling career with a second place finish at the Olympic Team Trials in 2008.
Personal
Hahn, his wife, Terry, and their two sons, Miles and Luka, reside in Dryden.
* Updated April 2018
