Head Coach Sean Ahrar



 
  Head Coach  
  Eighth Season in 2012-13  
  Hometown: Iran  
Alma Mater: Minnesota State-Mankato '92
E-mail: ahrar@stolaf.edu
Office Phone: 507-786-3409
 
 
 
 
 
 

THE AHRAR FILE
1988: Won Men's National Collegiate Olympic Weightlifting Championship.
1992: Graduated from Minnesota State-Mankato.
2002: Was head coach for Carleton College, earning MIAC coach of the year.
2004: Took head coaching job at Dakota Wesleyan.
2005: Became head wrestling coach at St. Olaf.
Sean Ahrar will coach his eighth season at St. Olaf in 2012-13. He coached two All-Americans in the 2010-11 season, Ryan Timmerman and Josef Waples. Ahrar spent 2004-05 as the head coach at Dakota Wesleyan in Mitchell, S.D., leading seven Tigers to the NAIA National Championships and producing two Great Plains Athletic Conference Champions and one Region Champion. A native of Iran, Ahrar spent two seasons at Carleton earning the MIAC's coach of the year in 2002.

Ahrar, a 1992 Minnesota State University-Mankato graduate, has a bachelor's degree in English literature and a minor in speech communications. He was a varsity wrestler at Mankato as well as the 1988 Men's National Collegiate Olympic Weightlifting Champion. He earned a master's degree in management from the College of St. Scholastica in June of 2004.














The Oles Under Sean Ahar
Season Overall Pct. MIAC Pct. Regional Place
2005-06 1-0 1.00 - - 13th
2006-07 2-8 .200 1-1 .500 11th
2007-08 4-8 .333 0-1 .000 -
2008-09 0-9 .000 0-3 .000 13th
2009-10 4-7 .364 0-2 .000 7th
2010-11 4-9 .308 0-5 .000 6th
2011-12 5-5 .500 0-3 .000 4th
Total 20-46 .303 1-15 .063 -