Lane Tech Wrestling
Coaching Staff
Our coaching team brings dozens of years of experience to the table, from college wrestling to high school coaching. Led by the only USA Wrestling Silver certified coach in Chicago, Lane sets the standard for ongoing coaching education.
Matt Yan
Head Boys Coach
Coach Yan has been the head coach at Lane since 2017. His teams have won 5 straight CPL varsity city titles and 4 straight JV city titles. He has 12 years of coaching experience and is a USA Wrestling Silver certified coach. Under his leadership, Lane has had 9 boys state qualifiers, 10 girls state qualifiers and 3 girls state placewinners, and the boys won the 2025 regional championship.
Liam Cummins
Head Girls Coach
Coach Liam has been coaching at Lane for the last 5 years. He has been the girls coach the past 2 years and his team won the 2026 CPL city championship and IHSA sectional championship. Through his year-round mentoring and leadershio, Lane girls are becoming a serious statewide contender. Coach Liam wrestled for Coach Yan at the North Shore Edge wrestling club in Winnetka.
Jon Osoria
JV Coach
Tyler Tockman
JV Coach
Coach Tockman is entering his second year at Lane, where he also works in the special education department. He brings 11 years of coaching experience, most recently serving 4 years as head coach at Bethesda-Chevy Chase HS in Maryland. During that time, the team won 2 regional dual championships and finished as state runner-up in 2025. Coach Tockman enjoys being part of the culture at Lane and helping student-athletes develop essential lifelong skills for adulthood.
Colton Bast
Assistant Coach
Coach Bast is a 30 years old, originally from Libertyville IL, I grew up wrestling club and competing as much as I possibly could. I’ve been involved with the sport of wrestling for 25 years, 15 as an athlete and 10 as a coach. I’ve coached with 3 other programs before Lane Tech, which has given me the opportunity to coach every kind of athlete the sport has to offer. In my third year as an assistant coach at Lane Tech I plan on using my deep foundational knowledge of the sport and desire to see each wrestler improve to help make this team a premier contender in the state. I would love to see this team qualify for team state, but more importantly I want to help each athlete become a better version of themselves.
I live in an apartment in the Logan Square Neighborhood of Chicago. I work full time as a group health insurance broker. I love spending time in nature while hunting, fishing, hiking, or canoeing.
Quinton Smith
Assistant Coach
For Coach Quinton Smith, better known as “Coach Q,” Lane Tech wrestling is more than a program—it’s a tradition he has proudly been part of for over two decades.
A 2002 Lane Tech graduate, Coach Q first represented the Champions as a student-athlete before returning to the program as a coach in 2006. Now entering his 20th season, he has played an important role in developing wrestlers at every level of the program. Beyond teaching technique and building competitive student-athletes, Coach Q takes pride in serving as a mentor, motivator, and positive influence, helping student-athletes succeed both on and off the mat.
Coach Q’s passion for wrestling and combat sports began at an early age. His first inspiration came in third grade while watching Saved by the Bell. After seeing A.C. Slater wrestle, he decided he wanted to be just as cool and begged his mother to sign him up. Although it took a few years, he was finally introduced to wrestling in sixth grade through his martial arts school. From that moment, he was hooked, beginning a lifelong passion for the sport.
During his competitive career at Lane Tech, Coach Q was a two-time Chicago Public League City Champion, finishing his varsity career undefeated in city competition. He was also a two-time IHSA State Qualifier and earned Honorable Mention All-State recognition from IllinoisMatmen at 160 pounds during his senior year.
Following graduation, Coach Q continued his wrestling career at Triton College and Iowa Central Community College before pursuing another lifelong passion: the culinary arts.
Outside of wrestling, Coach Q works as a Senior Research & Development Chef for a culinary marketing agency in Chicago’s West Loop. When he’s not coaching or creating in the kitchen, he enjoys following sports, particularly baseball and tennis, and also enjoys playing competitive table tennis, having competed in tournaments across the United States.
Coach Q resides in Chicago’s Buena Park neighborhood with his wife, Bridget, and their Labrador–Great Pyrenees mix, Cooper.
Armond Harris
Lifelong martial artist with 26 years of various arts that include MMA, BJJ (blue belt), and of course wrestling. 22 years of experience in EMS, and current Firefighter Paramedic for the Chicago Fire Department. Coach Armond started coaching wrestling wanting to give focus, direction, and life skills to the kids he worked with… little did he know that it would be a two way street, and they would give him all of those things back in return.
Volunteer Assistant
Joe Siprut
Volunteer Assistant
Coach Siprut enters his fourth season as an assistant coach at Lane. He has competed in and coached wrestling for over 30 years. His son, Joe Jr., is the team captain at Lane. Coach Siprut is also the Chief Executive Officer of Kerberos Capital Management.
Maya Cortes
Volunteer Assistant
Jacob Lowell
Volunteer Assistant
Vermaat VanderBrug
Volunteer Assistant
Cole Calace
Volunteer Assistant
