Lehigh women's wrestling adds Albrecht, Ciliotta to coaching staff
Lehigh women's wrestling head coach Brazel Marquez has announced the additions of Kaylynn Albrecht and Justin Ciliotta as assistant coaches. Ciliotta will also serve as director of operations.
Albrecht, a Fort Worth, Texas, native, brings one of the most accomplished competitive résumés of any coach in women's college wrestling. A 2025-26 U.S. National Team member, Albrecht secured her spot on the national team by finishing true third at 72 kilograms at Final X 2025. She is a three-time U.S. Open placer with third and fourth-place finishes at the World Team Trials. Internationally, she owns four gold medals -- two at the Henri Deglane Grand Prix of France and one each at the Poland Open and Spanish Grand Prix -- along with a pair of bronze medals at the Bill Farrell Memorial International.
At the collegiate level, Albrecht won a NAIA national championship in 2023 and was runner-up at the 2022 NAIA National Invitational and the 2025 NCWWC Nationals. She also won a U23 national championship in 2023, placed third at U23 Nationals in 2022 and won a Junior Girls Folkstyle Nationals title in 2019. A Texas 6A state finalist and two-time placer in high school, Albrecht graduated from McKendree University in December 2025 with a bachelor's degree in psychology and has been training at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. She will continue training for the 2028 Olympics while coaching at Lehigh.
Ciliotta brings 18 years of freestyle and folkstyle wrestling experience to the Mountain Hawks. A Montville, N.J., native, he wrestled at Stevens Institute of Technology from 2022 to 2026 at 141 and 149 pounds, earning two Scholar All-American honors and serving as a team captain. He received the Stevens Wrestling Coaches Award and the program's most coveted honor, the "One More" Award, which is given to the wrestler who best embodies the program's motto through extra effort in every facet of life. Ciliotta earned a bachelor's degree in engineering management from Stevens and is currently pursuing graduate studies in aerospace and space systems engineering at Lehigh.
With the additions of Albrecht and Ciliotta, Lehigh's women's wrestling staff now stands at five coaches.