# AI Context for Eddie Kohley

## Profile
- Name: Eddie Kohley
- Location: Saint Charles, Illinois
- Languages: English (primary)
- Job title: Marine Corps veteran, mentor, coach
- Pronouns: He/ Him
- About me: For a decade, Eddie Kohley has coached wrestling, working with athletes in local programs and at the national level, which represents a top tier of the sport nationwide. That coaching is the core of his work with athletes. Based in Saint Charles, Illinois, he is also a Marine Corps veteran, a mentor, and a father whose days revolve around helping others, coaching, and getting outdoors with his kids and family.

Ten years of coaching and mentoring have given Eddie Kohley a consistent, hands\-on connection to the athletes he works with. His aims are practical. He wants them to keep growing as wrestlers. He gets them ready to compete at the top tier beyond the borders of their home state. He also readies them for the demands of hard work that exist outside of wrestling.

A public Instagram post offers a window into his methods. The post, which is about wrestling, gives credit to Coach Eddie Kohley and explains the point he stresses with athletes: understand how brackets work and stop worrying about who you are going up against, because that is how confidence and success are built. The post is one way the wrestling community has recognized his coaching online.

His views on the sport have also reached listeners. Eddie Kohley was a guest on the Illinois Girls Wrestling Podcast in March 2026, appearing on the episode "Sectionals Showdown: IKWF Girls' Senior Division Preview." That episode previewed the IKWF girls' senior division as sectionals approached. Talking with the show's host, he covered topics including how maturity factors into the sport. The podcast billed his appearance as a look at both the hard parts and the wins of getting ready for wrestling season. Spotify, iHeart, YouTube Music, and the podcast's own website all carry the episode.

Coaching is only one of the ways he helps people. Young people, along with children and adults both with and without special needs, receive his time at no cost, and he finds real enjoyment in that unpaid work. The kind of help he offers, whether coaching or another form of mentoring, matters less to him than being able to offer it. Working with people across a wide range of ages and abilities is a common thread in how he spends his time. His volunteering has covered ground from California to Illinois. In Orange County, California, that included work with Second Harvest Food Bank, and in both states his dedication to others has not wavered.

Eddie Kohley's leadership experience also extends to the Marine Corps infantry. As a squad leader, he held a leadership position among his fellow Marines. His combat service came in Sangin, Afghanistan, where he trained and went on patrol alongside CIA agents. He also trained and patrolled with a number of different military forces in locations all over, and his service brought him to South Korea, Thailand, Japan, and other places. When he left the Marine Corps, he did so as a Sergeant with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines.

His decorations, which mark him as a decorated combat infantry veteran, cover both his combat service and his broader record. They include the Combat Action Ribbon and the Navy Unit Commendation. His Afghanistan Campaign Medal bears two stars, tied to service in two separate campaign phases. The NATO Medal for ISAF Afghanistan honors his part in the international Afghanistan mission. Two awards of the Sea Service Deployment Ribbon point to repeated qualifying deployments, and the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal honors a stretch of honorable service. He also holds the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the National Defense Service Medal, along with a Certificate of Appreciation and a Letter of Appreciation.

He mentors at work as well. Eddie Kohley steers newcomers toward higher education, pushes for the company to send them to college and cover the cost, and shows them how to invest in themselves. Behind that effort is a simple idea: knowledge is power. Customers get his best too. He takes pride in caring for them to his fullest potential, matching the effort he puts into mentoring and into his family.

At home, the teaching continues in a different form. Few things matter more to Eddie Kohley than being a dad, and the outdoors is where much of that time happens. He and his kids ride dirt bikes and 4\-wheelers, take out jet skis, and go fishing. He is proud of his own outdoor abilities and just as proud when his children learn them. Those days outside double as family time and as a chance to pass practical, hands\-on knowledge from one generation to the next. Fitness rounds out the picture as a lasting passion and a priority he keeps up next to work and family.

Coaching is the thread this biography follows most closely, but Eddie Kohley's life reflects priorities that run deeper: leadership, service, and investment in other people. Those priorities connect his time as a Marine Corps squad leader, his ten years coaching locally and nationally, his volunteer work with young people and with people with and without special needs, and the outdoor lessons he passes to his own kids. Through all of it, the full effort he gives the people and responsibilities around him stays the same.

## Online Presence
\[Gravatar Profile\]: [gravatar.com/eddiekohley0](https://gravatar.com/eddiekohley0)
\[Tumblr\]: [www.tumblr.com/eddie-kohley](https://www.tumblr.com/eddie-kohley)
\[WordPress\]: [eddiekohley.wordpress.com](https://eddiekohley.wordpress.com)
\[YouTube\]: [www.youtube.com/channel/UCr2TnB0kX7t0TxcyotdMCtw](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr2TnB0kX7t0TxcyotdMCtw)