In his first season as an assistant coach with the Cerritos College wrestling team, Luke Santos has also served as a co-head coach at North Torrance High School with head Falcon coach Don Garriott since 2005. Prior to that, he was an assistant coach at North Torrance from 2004-05. Santos started his wrestling career under Garriott at North Torrance High, where he was a three-time league champion and won the CIF championship as a senior. For his efforts, he was named the tournament’s Lower Weights Most Valuable Player, while he also reached the CIF finals twice. In his high school career, Santos also was a state qualifier, was a member of the California High School National Team and earned a State Sportsmanship Award.

                Santos moved on to San Francisco State, where he was voted the NCAA Western Regional Freshman of the Year, and went on to be an NCAA Division II West Regional Champion, two-time National Qualifier and was named an NCAA Division II All-American. During his collegiate career, Santos won the prestigious Far Western Championship in both Greco and freestyle, while he won a conference championship, the Aggie Open Championship and placed third in the Junior Fila State Championships in Greco and freestyle.