Coach Alexander Rinaldi attended Blair Academy in Blairstown, NJ, where he was a 2x National Prep All-American, while a member on the 3x National Championship Team from 2012-2014. He would go on to receive a scholarship to compete at the Division 1 level for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a 2-year starter at 125 and 133 lbs. He graduated in 2019 with a major in Media and Communications.

“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why ... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

- Robert F. Kennedy, who was paraphrasing the playwright George Bernard Shaw