Matt Dernlan (Photo/Jonathan Cohen, Binghamton University)Matt Dernlan has resigned as head wrestling coach at Binghamton University, with assistant coach Kyle Borshoff named as acting head coach, the New York-based NCAA Division I program announced Wednesday.
Binghamton's athletics department told the Press-Connects newspaper that it would not comment further, describing Dernlan's resignation as "a personnel matter."
"We want to thank Matt for his work on behalf of Binghamton wrestling," said Patrick Elliott, BU's Director of Athletics, in a brief statement issued by the school. "We wish him well in his future pursuits."
Dernlan was in his sixth season as head coach of the Bearcats, having taken the position when Pat Popolizio had been named to head up the wrestling program at North Carolina State.
This season, Dernlan had led Binghamton to three straight dual-meet victories following a 40-2 season-opening loss at home to top-ranked Penn State. The 2016-17 season was Binghamton's most successful with Dernlan at the helm, with the Bearcats placing eight wrestlers at the 2017 EIWA (Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association) Championships, a school record. The team also finished eighth as a team at the conference championships with 66 points, another program high.
Dernlan, a native of Ohio, had come to Binghamton in 2011 after serving as head coach at Pennsylvania's Clarion University for one season.
Borshoff, who had been promoted to head assistant coach prior to the beginning of the 2017-18 season, has been on the Binghamton coaching staff for three seasons. He came to the Bearcats after having served on the coaching staff at American University for five seasons. Prior to launching his coaching career at American, Borshoff had wrestled at the Washington, D.C. school, where he was a three-time NCAA championships qualifier and earned NCAA All-American honors twice.
Binghamton said it would launch a nationwide search for a new head coach starting in the spring semester.
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