Duroe, the 2009-10 Iowa Conference Coach of the Year, enters his sixth season leading the Cornell College wrestling program.
Duroe has brought Cornell wrestling back to national prominence with four consecutive top-12 team finishes at the NCAA Division III Championships. Duroe's 2009-10 squad placed 12th at nationals and landed two all-Americans. The team finished 14-11 in dual competition and scored a school-best third-place finish at the 2010 IIAC Championships while crowning a pair of conference champions.
The Rams etched back-to-back top-10 national finishes in 2007-08 (seventh) and 2008-09 (eighth), a feat not matched since the 1950 and 1951 seasons. Cornell crowned three all-Americans in 2009, led by national runner-up Nick Nothern. The Rams' seventh-place showing in 2008 marked the program's highest national finish since 1963. The 2007-2008 squad fielded four all-Americans, the most in a single season in 58 years.
Duroe has fashioned a 65-48-1 dual mark on the Hilltop with 17 national qualifiers and 12 all-Americans. He owns the top four season win totals in school history, including a 15-9-1 mark by the record-breaking 2005-06 team. Duroe led the Rams to 14 dual wins in three other seasons.
Duroe is an accomplished coaching figure at the collegiate, national and world levels. The Charles City native has been an assistant on the U.S. Men's Freestyle coaching staff in the past four Olympic Games (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008) and also served as head coach of Guam's freestyle wrestling team at the 2008 Games in Beijing. He was a member of the U.S. coaching staff for the Pan American Games in 2003 and 2007 and was named Volunteer Coach of the Year by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) in 2006 and 2007. Duroe coached the 2007 U.S. Pan American Games team which won seven medals, and was head coach of the U.S. Freestyle World Team in 2005 and 2006. He was head coach of the University of Iowa Hawkeye Wrestling Club from 2003-05 and selected USA Freestyle Coach of the Year in 2005.
Prior to coming to Cornell, Duroe was head coach at Northern Michigan University, head coach at New Trier (Ill.) High School, an assistant at the University of Pennsylvania and head coach of the Northwestern University Wildcat Wrestling Club.
At Northern Michigan from 1980-85, Duroe compiled an 82-27 record with 23 All-Americans and two NCAA champions. For two years he was in charge of the Northwestern Wildcat Wrestling Club before leading New Trier from 1986-98. From 1998-2001 Duroe was national resident coach at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. He was the head assistant coach at the University of Pennsylvania from 2001-03 before joining the Hawkeye Wrestling Club in 2003.
Duroe graduated from Drake University in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in education. He was a four-year letterwinner and two-time team captain for the Bulldogs. Duroe competed four years on the U.S. National Team (1981-84) and was crowned National AAU Freestyle champion in 1983.
