Coach Seth Cohen grew up in Buffalo Grove and attended Adlai E. Stevenson High School, where he was a four-year member of the wrestling program. After high school, he joined the United States Marine Corps where he spent the majority of his time with 2nd Tank Battalion in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina as a radio operator with Company C. He left the Marine Corps with an honorable discharge as a Sergeant after his four year tour of service was completed. Besides teaching physical education at Torah Academy, Coach Cohen is currently a student at the University of Chicago where he is majoring in computational and applied mathematics. He splits his time between Buffalo Grove and his residence in Hyde Park, Chicago.