End of Season Update

The season has finally come to end.  Throughout the season we prided ourselves on battling through some adverse situations and I believe this helped the team make a jump in the last month of the season. The future looks bright!  Our team got some valuable experience that they can use over the next seven months to improve both academically and athletically.

2014/2105 Highlights

• The program had its first EIWA Champion in Tyler Deuel.
• Finished 9th/16 in the second toughest conference in the country, scoring more points than the previous year and placing 6 of our 10 wrestlers.
• Six members of the team had over 20 wins: David White, Dylan Caruana, Vincent Deprez, Zack Zupan, Steven Schneider, Jack McKeever, Tyler Deuel
• First time in our Division I history that we beat two Top-25 teams: Princeton and Bucknell
• Three members of the team were inducted into the Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society: Vlad Mordach, Joe Jackson and Vincent Grella

We have a lot of work to do for next year but it's an exciting time to be a Bearcat!

Thank you for the support throughout the year and a special thanks to the fans that made the trip to the conference tournament and the NCAA Championships!

VIDEO: Tyler Deuel Athlete of The Week

Deuel takes it all this weekend as EIWA Champion; Deuel (285), McKeever (184) qualify for NCAAs with automatic bids

Senior Tyler Deuel didn't disappoint this weekend at the 2015 EIWA Championships. Coming into the tournament Deuel was seeded first at the 285 weight class. Deuel went into finals with three wins, two of which were tech falls against Alex Henry (Franklin and Marshall) and Ray O'Donnell (Princeton) During the finals Deuel faced off with number two seed Joe Stolfi (Bucknell) where he pinned him in the first period.

Another Bearcat that will be heading down to St. Louis is junior Jack McKeever. McKeever took sixth place this weekend, beating Samson Imonode (Army) and Zack Hernandez (Columbia). Also placing were seniors David White (125) and Caleb Wallace (197). Both White and Wallace took seventh place in their respective weight classes.

Other notable wins of this weekend were by freshman Steve Schneider and Zack Zupan. Defeating Grimes (American), Johnson (Harvard)  and McDonald (Brown) Schneider was able to take seventh place at 174 weight class. Zack Zupan was able to take eighth place at 165 weight class. 
 
On Wednesday the NCAA is expected to announce the at-large bids for the 2015 NCAA Championships, which will be held from March 19-21 in St. Louis, Missouri.

Photo Credit: Brent Hugo
Post by Donna Umana (dumana2@binghamton.edu)