Hayden Hidlay joined the Stanford wrestling staff as an assistant coach in June 2024. He enters his second season with the Cardinal in 2025-26.
In his first season on The Farm, Stanford produced a pair of All-Americans and turned in a top 20 finish at the NCAA Championships (18th) in Philadelphia with eight NCAA qualifiers. The Cardinal finished fifth at its first ACC Championships in Durham, North Carolina, crowing one individual champion. Off the mat, Stanford churned out eight NWCA Scholar All-Americans and nine All-ACC Academic Team selections.
Hidlay wrestled collegiately at NC State, where he was a five-time All-American, four-time ACC champion and one of the winningest wrestlers in Wolfpack history. He spent the 2023-24 season as an assistant coach at North Dakota State after serving one season as the Student-Athlete Development Coordinator at NC State.
Hidlay finished his career second in Wolfpack history in winning percentage (.909), while his 110 career victories is tied for the third-most wins by an NC State wrestler. The first five-time All-American in school history, Hidlay was an NCAA finalist in 2018, and earned third, fourth and fifth-place finishes at the NCAA Championships during his career. He was an NWCA First Team All-American in 2020 when NCAAs were canceled due to COVID.
Hidlay is one of just 10 wrestlers in ACC history to win four individual titles. In 2020, he was named the ACC Wrestler of the Year and ACC Wrestling Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
He and his wife, Emily, reside in Mountain View.