Notes: Team co-captain…Defending conference champ at heavyweight…Multi-skilled wrestler with excellent takedown skills…Possesses outstanding endurance…Enters senior campaign with career record of 60-32 with 15 pins…Member of Alpha Chi Rho fraternity.
2011-12: Won the Centennial Conference Championship at heavyweight…Set program record for wins by a heavyweight with a mark of 31-15…Totaled seven pins, six major decisions, and a team-best four technical falls…Also led the team with 66 escapes and 11 reversals…Claimed first individual tournament championship by winning both matches by decision at the conference tournament…Qualified for the NCAA Division III Championships where he lost two matches by decision…Won six-straight matches to claim third place at the Ursinus Fall Brawl…Posted two major decisions, one technical fall, one pin, and one decision en route to a third-place showing at the Oneonta Red Dragon Invitational…Went 7-1 in conference duals…Won nine-straight matches heading into nationals.
2010-11: Compiled an 18-7 record as the team’s No. 2 heavyweight…Finished fourth at both the King’s Monarch Invitational and the Waynesburg Invitational…Won four matches at King’s, including a pin, before dropping a 5-3 decision in overtime in the consolation finale…Won each of his final five matches of the season, including three by fall…Notched six pins of the year with his fastest in 2:24 against RIT…Lost only two matches by more than two points.
2009-10: Finished with an 11-10 record as the team’s No. 2 heavyweight… Won nine of 11 decisions by five points or less, including four one-point victories…Recorded a pin for first collegiate victory at King’s Monarch Invitational…Posted four wins en route to a fifth-place finish at the Messiah Petrofes Tournament…Posted a pair of wins at both the Ursinus Fall Brawl and Oneonta Red Dragon Invitational.
High School: All-sectional champion and state place-winner at heavyweight at St. John’s Prep under Manny Costa...Finished fourth in the Division I state tournament and placed third in the all-state tournament...Finished in the top eight at the New England Wrestling Championships...Posted a school record 32 wins as a senior and finished career with 105...Also played football and rugby.
Major: Economics.
Year
|
Wins
|
Losses
|
Fall
|
Tech. Fall
|
Maj. Dec.
|
Dec.
|
Takedowns
|
Escapes
|
Reversals
|
2009-10 |
11 |
10 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
13 |
28 |
6 |
2010-11 |
18 |
7 |
6 |
0 |
3 |
6 |
28 |
23 |
5 |
2011-12 |
31 |
15 |
7 |
4 |
6 |
12 |
68 |
66 |
11 |
Total
|
60
|
32
|
15
|
4
|
9
|
27
|
109
|
117
|
11
|