The Director

Glenn Rodriguez is a Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) and Founder/Director of Grapplin’ Gorillas. He is the head coach of the Middle and Upper School wrestling programs at the Allen-Stevenson School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.  Glenn has been the wrestling coach at Allen-Stevenson for the last 7 years.  He has been teaching for 16 years, and began his career coaching wrestling for East Islip High School, Long Island, in 1989 (where he himself wrestled). Glenn holds a brown belt in Kempo Karate, and was formerly the Wushu Kung Fu and Tai Chi Assistant Instructor at the Ross School, East Hampton.