Founder/Director Head Coach Northgatewrestling@gmail.com Carlos Sumulong, a 1992 Northgate High School graduate, just completed his 12th season as the head coach of the Northgate Wrestling team. He coached the Broncos from 1997-2001 before stepping down to coach at De LaSalle from 2001-2004, and then returned to Northgate in 2004 and has been at NHS ever since. Besides over ten years of coaching at the high school level, Sumulong has a long background of coaching youth wrestlers. He coached the Concord Youth Center (CYC) club team from 1997-2004, founded the Walnut Creek Wrestling Club in 2004 and has been coaching that program since then, and is currently the Director and Coach of the Walnut Creek Elite Wrestling Team & Foothill Middle School Wrestling Team (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 Diablo Valley County Champions). Sumulong attended San Francisco State University and earned his B.S. in Kinesiology with an emphasis on Human Movement in 1997. While at SFSU, Sumulong continued his excellent wrestling career and had a few more highlights:
As a high school coach, Sumulong has had great success training and developing student-athletes. During his coaching career, he has coached five State Medalists, 18 State Qualifiers, 30 North Coast Section Placers, 8 NCS Champions, and 40 League Champions. Sumulong currently has 20 ex-wrestlers competing in college (Division I, II, NAIA, & Junior College). His Northgate team accolades include back to back NCS 2A Dual Meet Championship banners, first DVAL tournament championship, and qualifying the a entire 2010 team to the NCS individual championships. Sumulong is the Co-Founder and Owner of VQ Fitness (www.vqfitpros.com), a Strength & Conditioning/Pilates Company. In 2006 and 2007 he won the Diablo Magazine Best Personal Trainer of the East Bay Award. Sumulong is married to Heather Sumulong and together they have two children.
Bill was the coach for the 1996 U.S. Olympic wrestling team and the former head wrestling coach at the University of California at Berkeley. Winner of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame’s highest honor, he is also the author of two books, Greco-Roman Wrestling (Human Kinetics, 1993) and the Illustrated Guide to Teaching Kids to Wrestle (Human Kinetics, 1985). Bill has spent years working with local youth through the Concord Youth Center and now helps train the Northgate High Wrestling team. He is an alumni of Lewis & Clark College and holds a masters degree in political science at the University of Oregon.
Assistant wrestling coach
Assistant coach Jake has been coaching the Northgate JV since 2003. He also helps Coach Carlos with Foothill Middle School Wrestling Team. In high school, Jake wrestled for Campolino High. While attending Humboldt State and College of the Redwoods, Jake played Rugby. He works as Special Education Assistant for the MDUSD for the past nine years and has been providing one-on-one assistance for a wheel chaired student suffering from spinal bifida.
When not coaching, Jake likes to play golf, double deck pinnacle and is a comic book collector.
 Mike Wenzell Assistant Wrestling Coach
Assistant Coach Mike joined the Northgate wrestling team coaching staff in 2008. He also works with Carlos and the other coaches with the Foothill Middle School wrestling program. Mike has over a dozen years or wrestling competition experience and has coached youth programs and officiated wrestling at the high school level.
Mike wrestled at William Tennent High School in Warminster, PA, where he earned three varsity letters, served as team captain, and in his senior year, 1977, placed 4th in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association State Championships. He was also recognized as a High School All-American in 1977. Mike was inducted into the William Tennent High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001.
After high school, Mike competed at Rider University, an NCAA Division I wrestling program, earning four varsity letters, and was team captain in 1980-81. In 1980, he placed first in the East Coast Conference Championships at 126 lbs and qualified for the NCAA National Tournament in Corvallis, OR. Following college, Mike helped coach a youth wrestling program in Warminster, PA and later officiated wrestling at the high school level in New Jersey.
Mike graduated from Rider University in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance. He is currently a Managing Director with ProLogis, a real estate investment trust.
Mike, his wife Kassie and their their three children, moved to Walnut Creek from the East Coast in 1995. Robbie (2005), and Amie (2007) graduated from Northgate and Megan, a senior, will graduate in 2009. Mike and Kassie have been very active in the Northgate Community and Kassie served on the Board of the Las Lomas Northgate Football Foundation and is currently a Board member of Northgate Community Pride Foundation, serving as project leader for the new Sports Complex.
"Wrestling is such a great sport, not only because of the physical and mental demands, but because of the individualistic aspect of the sport that requires participants to take accountability for their preparation and performance - and to benefit personally form their achievements. These are traits that can be carried over to all aspects of life. I am thrilled to be back involved with the sport and to be able to work with a such a great group of young men" -- Mike Wenzel |
