Ziad Haddad is in his sixth season as an assistant coach with the Kutztown University wrestling program in 2025-26. The two-time national champion and three-time All-American spent two seasons on Robert Fisher's staff from 2015-17 before returning to the program in 2022-23.
Under Haddad's tutelage, Golden Bear wrestlers have earned 11 All-America finishes at the NCAA Division II Championships, including seven during his current stint. Matthew Weinberg reached the national championship match and brought home a runner-up finish at 184 pounds to conclude the 2023-24 season.
Haddad concluded his three-year career at KU with nearly every possible award and honor to his name.
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As a senior in 2014-15, he became KU wrestling's second two-time national champion, won his second consecutive regional championship, won his first PSAC championship, recorded his second straight undefeated season, became the program's second three-time All-American, went 55 straight bouts without being taken down and ranked No. 1 in the nation for 507 consecutive days.
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Kutztown captured, at the time, its best-ever PSAC and national tournament team finishes in 2014-15, while also placing third at the Super Region 1 Championships. Haddad led the team with 12 pins and 10 major decisions during his senior season, culminating in Division II's Most Dominant Wrestler award.
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Haddad, originally from Orefield, Pa., was named the PSAC, Super Region 1 and NCAA Division II National Wrestler of the Year as a junior in 2013-14.
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Haddad concluded his Golden Bear career with an 82-5 record (40-1 in duals), 22 pins, three technical falls and 25 major decisions. He is one of three KU wrestlers to record an undefeated season and the only one to do it twice. Haddad is tied for fifth in career pins and ranks sixth in career wins at Kutztown. Including his redshirt freshman season at UNC, Haddad earned 99 collegiate victories.
A 2018 Kutztown University graduate with a social studies degree, Haddad earned Dean's List honors, was named the 2015 KU Male Senior Athlete of the Year and a two-time KU Male Athlete of the Year.
Haddad is a teacher in the Lehigh Valley in addition to his coaching duties. He was inducted into the KU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2021 and was named to the 2026 NWCA Jim Koch Division II Men's Wrestling Hall of Fame class.
Updated 2/13/26
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