2016 NCAA Division I Qualifier (165)
2014 NCAA Division I Qualifier (165)
• 71 career victories
• 14-4 career SoCon record
• 18 career pin falls
2015-2016 at Gardner-Webb: NCAA qualifier for the second time in his career … 2016 Southern Conference champion at 165 pounds … Earned 2016 All-SoCon honors … Entered 2016 SoCon Championships as the No. 1 seed at 165 … Started the event with a 16-0 tech fall win and went 3-0 to win the title … Posted a 17-7 overall mark, including a 5-0 record in the SoCon … Went 8-2 in dual matches … Led team with 14 near falls … Also paced team with six tech fall victories … Recorded two wins via pin fall and one by major decision … Entered the NCAA Championships riding a seven-match win streak … Won 10-of-11 matches heading into NCAAs, including a 3-1 mark against other NCAA qualifiers … Went 5-1 at the 2015 Wolfpack Open … Lost to eventual national champion Alex Dieringer (Oklahoma State) in the opening round at the 2016 NCAA Championships at Madison Square Garden.
2014-2015 at Gardner-Webb: Finished second on the squad with 25 wins (25-9) … Led the team and ranked among the national leaders for much of the season with 10 pin falls … Also led the team with six technical falls and six major decisions … Started the season with a sizzling 15-1 overall record that included a championship at the 2014 Cleveland State open at 165 pounds … 13 of his first 15 wins came via fall, tech fall or major decision … Advanced to the semifinals at 165 pounds in the 2015 SoCon Championships before dropping the third-place match … Went 6-1 during the regular season vs. SoCon competition … Appeared in the national rankings at 165 pounds during the preseason and for much of the regular season.
2013-2014 at Gardner-Webb: Named to the SoCon All-Freshman Team … Emerged as one of the top wrestlers nationally in his weight class as a redshirt freshman … Ranked as high as No. 17 at 165 pounds during the regular season by InterMat … Qualified for the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships and captured a 12-4 major decision over Utah Valley’s Curtis Cook in the opening round … Dropped a tough, 7-6 decision to Stanford’s Jim Wilson in the second round … Wrestled at 165 pounds and recorded six pins, six tech falls and six major decisions among his victory total on the season … Went 29-9 overall and was 1-0 when wrestling up at 174 pounds … Posted a 3-3 record against SoCon foes during the regular season … Went 3-1 in the SoCon Tournament to qualify for nationals … Won 10 of his first 11 matches to open the season and had a season-long, 11-match win streak from Decmber 29 through February 5 … Recorded nine wins over major conference foes from West Virginia, North Carolina, Duke (4), Michigan State (3).
2012-13 at Gardner-Webb: Redshirted … Wrestled unattached at 157 and 165 pounds on the season … Posted a record of 26-8 overall on the year … Registered a season-high seven-match winning streak for the year … Totaled a team-high 11 pins on the season … Also registered 10 technical fall victories on the year … Tallied three major decision wins overall … Took first-place at The Citadel Open at 157 pounds … Recorded a third-place finish at the King College Open at 157 pounds and at the Newberry Open at 165 pounds … Turned in a fifth-place finish at the 2013 National Collegiate Open at 165 pounds … Posted falls over Richard Kerekes of UNC-Pembroke, Michael Gonzalez of Cumberland and TJ Duncan of Shorter College at The Citadel Open … Also posted three pins at the King College Open over Kevin Boston of Cumberland, Cole Dodd of Chattanooga and Reggie Adams of King College … Pinned Tyler Williams of Brewton-Parker at 1:00 at the Newberry Open … Also earned a pin over Tyler Johnson of Newberry at the Newberry Open at 2:01 … Recorded a pin over Michael Logan of VMI at 1:08, against Ryan Fox of N.C. State at 4:16 and over Frank Affronti of Hofstra at 4:11 at the National Collegiate Open … Earned a 20-5 technical fall win over Sam Osakue of Mercer and a 15-0 shutout tech fall victory over Shawn Landgraff of Newberry at The Citadel Open … Registered a 15-0 tech fall victory over Ted Gottwald of VMI at the Wolfpack Open … Also tallied a 17-0 technical fall win over Robbie Collum of Brewton-Parker at the King College Open … Defeated James Klosz of Eastern Michigan by way of a 17-2 technical fall win at the CSU Open … Turned in an 18-2 tech fall win over Louden Gordon of Notre Dame College at the CSU Open … Totaled two technical fall wins over Charles Johnson of The Citadel at the Newberry Open … Recorded a tech fall win over both Ryan Quinn of Central Michigan and Ryan Forrest of George Mason at the National Collegiate Open … Also posted wins over Shohei Takagi of George Mason, both John Brasher and John Austi Jones of King College, Samphanh Viengmany of Tiffin and Dyllan Cottrell of Appalachian State … Earned All-American honors with an eighth-place finish at 74 KG at the 2013 ASICS (FILA) Junior Greco-Roman National Championships in Las Vegas, Nevada in April … Also went 2-2 on the day at 74 KG at the 2013 ASICS (FILA) Junior Freestyle National Championships ... Earned a spot on the 2012-13 Big South Presidential Honor Roll.
High School: Was a letter award winner at Camden County High School in Georgia ... Posted an overall record of 194-8 during his four years on the mat for Camden County H.S. ... Finished his senior season ranked No. 14 in the nation among high school wrestlers at 152 pounds by InterMat Wrestling ... Also named as an InterMat All-American his senior year in which he went 47-1 overall ... A three-time State Champion ... Finished in second-place at the NHSCA Senior Nationals his senior year ... Took fifth-place at the NHSCA Junior Nationals as a junior ... Was a State Runner-Up his freshman season ... Was also named a Fargo Greco-Roman All-American his freshman year ... Went a perfect 52-0 his junior season ... Also posted 57 wins as a freshman ... Three-time Team Captain ... Competed at 103 pounds, 130 pounds, 140 pounds and 152 pounds during his high school career.
