Meet the Directors
Brock Hoffman - Co-Director
My name is Brock Hoffman. I am a co-director of Assassins Wrestling Camp (AWC) – I started wrestling at the age of 5 in Pennsylvania . I eventually placed at states and went on to wrestle for D1 Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, I did not finish my wrestling career the way I wanted to. I am not alone. Most of us don’t like to talk about it. But I love the grind, and I know you do, too, or you wouldn’t still be reading with me.
I promised myself that I would be a better wrestling coach than I was a wrestler. I never want another wrestler under my tutelage to carry the same regret and emptiness I lugged around for years. In 2000, some teammates and I attended an intensive wrestling camp in Erie, PA. When we arrived, we were met by this old guy with banged-up, ugly knees preaching to me from his soapbox about how “this camp would change my life.” Coach Robinson nailed it. That camp changed my life and the lives of thousands of wrestlers over the years, forever! The drive and determination to deliver on that promise to myself took root during this camp and would later result in coaching my team to a State Championship, multiple individual State Champs, two All-Americans, and a Cadet World Silver Medalist. But that’s only part of my story.
Why AWC? How do we know we are the best? Why do we do what we do?
While working with (an amazing, strong, and powerful woman) co-director Megan Rheinhardt, an opportunity to host a camp presented itself and we never looked back! The all-volunteer coaching staff commits to you every year for one reason only - to contribute in unique ways towards transforming every wrestler from the inside-out and the outside-in! Our team is the best of the best, world-class coaches teaching athletes how to break through perceived limits in their physical abilities and mental capacities. Assassins are coached to wrestle and live outside of their comfort zones from sunrise to sunset in a controlled, disciplined, safe, and professional environment. Every Assassin coach is committed to the sport, the art, and the science of wrestling. We are well-versed in how to help you discover the best within you and show it to the world on the mat and in life!
And while your time at AWC will be worth it, it will not be easy. We will coach you to physical and mental exhaustion. You will be held accountable for everything you do and say for the 72 hours we spend together. But, you will be a team; you will be a family; for three days and forever!
Shared suffering is one of the most life-binding experiences in our journey through camp. We will suffer together at camp to be Assassins during the season! Many coaches will tell you to be tough, positive, passionate, and unafraid. But, unfortunately, few coaches will teach how to do it! We do! That’s why we’re different. That’s why Assassins Wrestling Camp is the best of the best!
Freestyle, Folkstyle, hard wrestling, duals, endurance training, yoga, and SO much more! Grab your gear! LFG!!!!!
Megan Rheinhardt
Co-Director
My Name is Megan Rheinhardt. I am a co-founder and co-director of Assassins Intensive Wrestling Camp. While I am not a wrestler myself, I have spent many years mat side as a mom and by supporting the growth of youth and high school wrestling programs. Professionally I am a Registered Nurse working as a Clinical Process and Education Manager. I am wife, mother to two amazing sons and also a two-time cancer survivor from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and breast cancer. I am a certified bad-ass!
When my oldest son, Wyatt, was in middle school, I worked alongside my husband Brent, and Brock Hoffman, to create a youth wrestling program as a feeder to our local high school wrestling team, The Bow Brawlers. The foresight of the Brawlers development program ultimately resulted in the first State Championship for Bow High School in 2019.
Then, during Wyatt’s 2018 off-season, he expressed interest in wrestling camps for additional training opportunities. We quickly learned that there are technique camps, drills and skills camps, and intensive camps. There was a wide variety of coaching caliber and wrestling talent, and not many options close to home. Then, during a conversation with Brock about what we were learning in our search for suitable wrestling camps, an idea was born – why not design and host our own camp? We wanted the highest-caliber coaches from across the country in order to attract the best wrestling talent from across the country, all training to the become the best of the best wrestlers and even better humans! So began the story of Assassins Wrestling Camp.
In the spirit of, “If you build it, they will come”, we built it, and they came! And they came. And they came. Coaches, volunteers, wrestlers, including many Assassins alumni have committed every year for the same Assassins experience – to be surrounded by the very best in the sport of wrestling and have an intensive wrestling camp experience. In addition to the intensity camp brings wrestlers become technically, mentally, and emotionally transformed according to their individual goals and aspirations. Every year I love watching the transformation that occurs for everyone involved! Being surrounded by clinicians, athletes, coaches and volunteers that all have a common goal for 72 hours is one of the most rewarding experiences.
None of what happens over these 72 hours happens without the magic behind the scenes. It takes a village to run a successful program and we have an amazing army of volunteers that are working off the mats, as hard as the wrestlers are on the mats, to deliver on the promise of the best intensive wrestling camp in the country – Assassins Wrestling Camp!