Brian Pickering

  • Title
    Volunteer Assistant Men's Wrestling Coach

Brian Pickering enters his second season as a volunteer assistant coach for the Elmira men’s wrestling program during the 2024-25 season.

 

A Southern Tier native, Pickering was a two-time first-team IAC all-star wrestler at Thomas A. Edison High School and ranked among the top wrestlers in Section IV for the Spartans.

 

Pickering, a 1996 graduate of Edison, played football for two seasons, baseball for two seasons, and excelled at wrestling for the Spartans. He also studied at Northern Michigan University's Olympic Training Center.

 

He also competed at the 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials and placed second at the University Nationals in 2000. Pickering won two gold medals and a silver at the Empire State Games. He was named to the Elmira Heights Sports Hall of Fame in 2016.