Columbus North High School

November 4, 2024 - Girls wrestling is now an IHSAA sanctioned varsity sport, and the Columbus North athletic department is pleased to introduce Lindsey Prozanski as the first head girls wrestling coach in school history. Prozanksi, a health teacher at Northside Middle School, has been a member of the Columbus North wrestling program, focusing primarily on the girls participating as a club sport. She has five years of coaching experience, during which she has coached three state meet placewinners and ten state qualifiers. Prozanski had a stellar career at Milan high school, graduating in 2015. She won two state titles, was a two-time All-American at the USGWA girls National Championships, and was a placewinner at the USA wrestling freestyle National Championships. She went on to wrestle at Campbellsville University, and was a three-time WCWA Academic All-American and a two-time Mid-South Conference Academic All-American. “I love to see and be part of the growth of women’s wrestling,” Prozanski explained. “I’m excited to be able to build a strong, supportive space for young women in wrestling, which is traditionally a male-dominated sport. I’m excited not only to see each athlete grow in skill, but to help them discover their confidence and find community in resilience and discipline.” Prozanski received her teaching degree from Campbellsville in 2019 and a Master’s Degree in Teacher Leadership from the University of the Cumberlands in 2022. She and her husband have an eighteen-month old daughter. When asked about challenges that she anticipates in her first year as a head coach and in the first year of an infant program, Prozanski responded, “We’ll be working through, especially in the early part of the season, a wide variety of experience levels among the girls. We have some girls that have never seen a wrestling match or stepped on a mat, which is exciting. Other girls have more experience. As girls wrestling continues to gain visibility, I'm excited to see the growth not only at the high school, but also the middle school and youth levels.”