Michael Wakim Jr

Founder and President

Michael is a graduate of McCluer North High School where he wrestled from 1997-2000. He was an assistant coach from 2002-2007. He would leave coaching to compete in college at Missouri Baptist University. Michael eventually received his bachelor’s in communication from Lindenwood University. He returned to McCluer North to continue his coaching career and in 2015 he accepted a teaching and coaching position at Hickman High School in Columbia Missouri. A year later he was hired as the Head Wrestling Coach at Battle High School also in Columbia. In the spring of 2018, he had the idea for the Wonder Woman Girls Wrestling tournament. After 4 successful years of tournaments Michael moved the company to St. Louis. In the fall of 2022, he accepted a position at Lift For Life Academy Charter School in the Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis. He is currently an assistant coach at LFLA and the Director of Wrestling operations. He lives with his crazy blind dog that inspired the original LLC Blind Dog Industries.

Chris Kyle

Director of Marketing and Logistics

Chris Kyle Has been with the WWWF since 2020. He is the father of 10 year old twins, a City of St Charles MO resident, and former St Charles City Councilman. He grew up in south county, (St. Louis MO) where he graduated from Lindbergh High School, 1997. He then attended Lindenwood University as a student-athlete, wrestler, 1997-2001, was a 2x national qualifier, and an Academic All-American. During his last few years of college, he served as an assistant wrestling coach for Lindbergh High School, 2000-2004. After graduating LU he became a middle school teacher and the Head Assistant Wrestling Coach at Holt High School, 2004-2018. During his time at Holt the program had multiple state champions, state medalist, were 2x team State Champions, and 10x top 5 team State Championship finishers. Chris was a 10-time Assistant Wrestling Coach of the Year award winner. In 2018 he became the Head Girls Wrestling Coach of Holt High School, 2018-2022. The girls team were 2x top five team State Championship finishers and The Wonder Woman Team Champions in 2020. Chris is now coaching his own son’s team, currently in the little league circuit, developing the next generation of champions.

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Lee Furnace Jr.​

Foundation Director

Lee is a North St. Louis, MO native, the husband to Ashley and the father of four. He has proudly served the Wonder Women Of Wrestling Foundation since its inception. He was a 3 sport athlete at McCluer High School. He began and fell in love with the sport of wrestling in his junior year in high school and was a state qualifier as a senior. After graduation in 2000, he became a student athlete at Lindenwood University, competing on the Football team and wrestling team. Lee was a national qualifier for the Lindenwood University Wrestling National Championship team in 2002 and a 2x Letterman for the Lindenwood University Football team, winning an undefeated conference championship in 2004. Lee graduated from Lindenwood University in 2005 with a degree in Human Services Business Management and Sports management. Later he earned his teaching certification in K-12, Physical Education and Health.

Lee has devoted his life to service and uplifting each community in which he is connected .He was the founder of Major Decision Wrestling and Mentorship club that mentored young people in the greater St. Louis metro area which provided access to high quality wrestling training, travel opportunities, life skills and higher education scholarships. He is the Vice President of Radiant Faith Academy, a non profit, early education center that services families from St. Louis City and St. Louis County. He was the Operations Director for Aim High St. Louis and is currently the Co-Director for Burr Oak Summer Day Camp.

Lee has coached wrestling for 17 years on the youth, high school and collegiate levels. He served as a graduate assistant for Missouri Baptist University and as an assistant at Lindenwood University- Belleville. He has served as a Missouri National Team coach and has coached and supported women’s wrestling on all levels. Currently Lee teaches middle school PE and is the head wrestling coach at John Burroughs School in St. Louis Missouri.

Jake Lapinski

Director of Teams Management

Jake has over 40 years of experience in the sport of wrestling as an athlete and or coach. He started wrestling when he was 5 years old. He was a three time state medalist and an undefeated state champion for Hazelwood East High School. He was a member of three state championship teams during his time at Hazelwood East. Jake wrestled collegiately for Meramec Community College and for the University of Missouri. He was a 1997 NJCAA National Wrestling All-American.

Jake has over 20 years of high school coaching experience with 17 of them as a head coach. His McCluer North girls wrestling team competed to a 4th place finish at the Missouiri state wrestling championships in the inaugural year of girls wrestling as a sanctioned MSHSAA sport in 2019. Jake has been an educator at McCluer North HS for 16 years. He is happily married to Melanie and is the father of Joseph and Francine. Currently Jake runs the Francis Howell North junior Knights wrestling program.