SSG Spenser Mango

Coach

SSG Spenser Mango grew up playing football, but “everyone was always bigger than me,” he says. He looked into wrestling because it was broken into weight classes. He fell in love with the sport, and won high school state his third year. He continued his career at the US Olympic Education Center at Northern Michigan University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education, and made his first Olympic Team and two world teams. He joined the Army the summer after graduation, and has since made four  more world teams and another Olympic team. He retired from competing in 2016 and was accepted back to the team as a coach.