Girls Coaches

Coach Scott Bayer is in his fourth year as head coach of the girls wrestling team after serving a very successful nine years as head coach of the boys team and seven years as an assistant coach. Scott was named the 2024 IWCOA Girls Head Coach of the Year.  Prior to joining the Bulldogs, he had coaching stints at Lane Tech and collegiately at North Central College in Naperville.  Competitively, Coach Bayer wrestled for Coach Mike Olson at Monmouth College (NCAA, Division III).  While at Monmouth, he was a 2-year team captain and Most-Valuable-Wrestler, an NCAA All-American in 1998, a two-time NCAA Qualifier (1997 & 1998) and a Midwest Conference Champion (1997), all in the 275-pound weight class.  He currently holds the Monmouth College single-season win record (40).  In high school, he was a IHSA state-qualifier at Hoffman Estates High School.  He currently teaches History at Batavia High School and lives in Batavia with his wife Julie.

  Coach Edgar Alvarado has coached at Batavia  since 2016 and serves on the Board of the Batavia Wrestling Club.  He was named the IWCOA Assistant Coach of the Year in 2025. He was a state qualifier at East Leyden High School and a member of the wrestling program, at Illinois State University until the school cut the sport. He proceeded to join the United States Marine Corps where he served two of his four years in the Middle East. After an honorable discharge, Coach Alvarado returned to Illinois State and earned a B.A. in Criminal Justice and minor in Spanish. To date, Coach Alvarado continues his career in public service with the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) where he is a Senior Operations Officer within the Disaster Response Division. He enjoys to golf and spending time with his wife, Cindy, and three boys: Daniel, Adrian, and Julian.

Coach Billy Rodriguez is in his first year as an assistant coach at Batavia after a successful tenure coaching the girls team of West Aurora High School. He was a two sport athlete at East Aurora High School and coached wrestling both there and Waubonsie Valley.  In more recent years he has founded and/or coached at multiple clubs in the area. Billy works as a paraprofessional at Core Academy and lives in Aurora with his wife Nora and four children.

Coach Gonzales is in his first year as an assistant coach at Batavia after a successful tenure coaching the girls team of West Aurora High School.  He wrestled at East Aurora High School and has coached at the high school level in Georgia and clubs in Kentucky and in Germany.  Coach Gonzales served for 21 years in the United States Army and retired with the rank of Master Sergeant.  He currently serves in several capacities at West Aurora High School and lives in Aurora with his wife Christal and sons Adrian and Jayden.