- Steven H. Biondolillo
- Athletic Notes
- Steven is a former member of the coaching staff of Boston College’s NCAA Division I wrestling program, and the founding coach of Babson College’s NCWA wrestling program.
- He is also a member of the wrestling program at the New York Athletic Club, one of the nation’s leading centers for Olympic Freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling.
- In 2002, 2003 and 2005, Steven was one of 500 Americans charged with selecting the winner of the prestigious Sullivan Award, presented annually to the nation’s top amateur athlete.
- He is currently a member of the board of directors of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
- Steven’s widely acclaimed op-ed pieces on the subjects of violence in sports, Title IX, and the Olympics have appeared in leading national publications.
- One of his op-ed pieces—"Let’s Let Kids Play"—has been circulated in several communities as mandatory reading for parents of children enrolled in sports programs.
- Until 1982, Steven was an elite amateur wrestler and medalist in national and international competition, including the World Maccabiah Games, the Canadian University National Championships, the New York Athletic Club International Holiday Tournament, the Quebec Open, and the National Preparatory School Championships.
- In 1980, he was a competitor in the Canadian Olympic Team Trials in Freestyle wrestling.
- Additionally, Steven was selected to represent both the United States (2X) and Canada (2X) in international dual meet competition.
- From 1978 to 1981, Steven wrestled for McGill University and the Montreal Elite Wrestling Club, where he was coached by Soviet national champion and world medalist Victor Zilberman, becoming one of the first Soviet-trained American wrestlers.
- In high school, Steven wrestled for Girard, where be became a two-time Philadelphia-area private school wrestling champion and winner of the boys school’s Scholar-Athlete Award.
- A high school salutatorian and Division I recruit in three sports—soccer, wrestling and baseball—Steven was also a Philadelphia Bulletin Scholar-Athlete.
- In 1988, Steven was inducted into Girard’s Wrestling Hall of Fame.
National Wrestling Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Steven Biondolillo; Rod Buttry from The Kraft Group; Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots; and Lee Roy Smith, Executive Director of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. More than 330 gathered at Gillette Stadium to recognize leaders in the Massachusetts wrestling community for their lifetime contributions to Olympic wrestling. Steven served as the event’s master of ceremonies and Kraft was the keynote speaker. Proceeds from the event benefited youth wrestling in Massachusetts.
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