Gettysburg College Athletics

2023-24 

• Won the 141 individual title at Centennial Conference championship
• First-team all-conference honoree
• Went 13-4 at 141 during the season with six pins
• Placed eighth at NCAA Div. III Southeast Regionals
• Scholar All-American from NWCA
• Named to the Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll
• Team captain

2022-23

• Earned All-American Honors with a seventh-place finish at 133 lbs. at the NCAA Division III wrestling championship, with four wins over two wins, including one tech. fall and one fall
• Became the first Bullet to earn All-American status since 2016 and the first in a weight class under 157 to earn All-American status in 44 years 
• Named an individual Scholar All-American and named to the Academic All-Centennial team
• Wrestled to a third-place finish at NCAA Div. III Southeast Regionals, with four pins and a tech. fall
• Won the 133 lb. individual title at Centennial Conference Championships with two first-period falls, earning him Most Outstanding Performer honors and First-Team All-Centennial Conference recognition
• Led the Bullets at the Will Abele Invitational with a second-place finish at 133, earning two major decisions and a pin
• Had the only pin of the match against Messiah with a fall in the first period, helping the Bullets defeat Mesiah for the first time in almost 20 years
• Tallied seven wins at 133 in regular season dual/trimatch competition

2021-22

• Totaled 31 wins at 133 lbs., going 31-9 on the season
• Won the Messiah invitational
• Rookie of the year for the Centennial Conference
• Placed 3^rd at Southeast Regionals
• 2022 National Qualifier for NCAAs
• 2022 Scholar All-American

2020-21

• Team did not compete due to Covid-19

Off the Mat

• Philosophy major
• Member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity

High School

• Competed in wrestling at St. John’s College HS
• Earned varsity letters all four years of his career
• Went 134-27 overall and 32-6 in his senior year
• Placed at National Preps in all four years – 6th place in 2017, 7th in 2018, 6th in 2019, and 5th in 2020
• Four-time DC Conference Champ from 2017-2020
• Four-time All-American from 2017-2020
• Voted 2020’s Most Outstanding Wrestler & DC City Champion
• Led his team to three WCAC Championships
• Served as team captain

Personal

• Son of John and Diana Kowalski
• Brother, Colin ’19, competed in wrestling for Gettysburg and was a 2x National Qualifier for NCAAs
• Father, John, competed in wrestling for NC State from 1983-84