Career: Career record of 66-27, including 27-9 in duals and 20-3 in SoCon duals ... NCAA at-large qualifier in 2025 … SoCon finalist in 2023 as a true freshman who was named SoCon Freshman of the Year ... SoCon third-place finisher in 2024 and 2025.
2024-25: NCAA at-large qualifier and third-place SoCon finisher had a 28-10 overall record at 197 pounds, including a 9-2 record in duals and a 7-1 mark in SoCon duals … Went 0-2 in the NCAAs with a 12-8 loss to Army’s Wolfgang Frable and a 5-4 loss to West Virginia’s Ian Bush … Accounted for 10.5 of first-place App State’s 79.5 points by going 3-1 with two pins and one major decision at the SoCon Championship tournament in Asheville, where he held a 7-5 lead in a semifinal against The Citadel’s Patrick Brophy before allowing a takedown with seven seconds left in an 8-7 loss ... Has 14 pins among his 23 bonus-point victories ... Two ranked wins in the regular season: was up 6-2 in the third before an injury default by NC State’s Christian Knop (No. 30 in final Coaches’ Rankings) and won a 4-3 decision against Brophy (No. 24 in final Coaches’ Rankings) ... Recorded 12th pin of the season against Davidson, giving him a top-10 ranking in Division I falls ... First-period pin against Chattanooga flipped a 17-14 deficit to a 20-17 lead in a 24-17 victory against Chattanooga ... Second-period pin against Bellarmine clinched the team win in a 23-19 road victory ... At NC State, moved ahead 4-0 on a second-period takedown of the 30th-ranked Knop and held a 6-2 lead in the third period when the match ended ... Third ranked win was a 12-0 major decision against then-No. 33 Josh McCutchen from Gardner-Webb ... Used a Sudden Victory takedown to win 4-1 against West Virginia’s Rune Lawrence in App State’s home-opening dual and was tied at 10-10 in overtime against Lawrence at the Southeast Open when Lawrence couldn’t continue because of an injury ... Runner-up at the Southeast Open, where he overcame a 9-3 deficit entering the third period against West Virginia’s Rune Lawrence in the semifinal round, forcing overtime on takedowns with 50 seconds left and seven seconds left, then advanced via a medical forfeit ... Went 5-0 at the Wilkes Open with three pins and two tech falls.
2023-24: Finished season with 14-8 record, including an 8-4 record in duals (7-1 in SoCon duals) ... Third-place finisher at the SoCon Championships with two wins by fall and one major decision … Closed regular season with six wins in last seven matches, including three wins by fall and two major decisions ... Made season debut with one win in December in Las Vegas and won by pin at Duke in early January ... Made final of Appalachian Open ... Recorded first-period pins vs. VMI and Presbyterian.
2022-23: SoCon Freshman of the Year and SoCon Championship finalist ... Finished 24-9 overall after going 10-3 in duals and 7-1 in SoCon duals at 197 pounds ... Entered final week of regular season with an NCAA RPI ranking of No. 28 ... Went 2-1 at the SoCon Championship with a pin and major decision to reach the final, where he lost 3-1 to a top-30 opponent ... Mountaineer Invitational and Patriot Open champion as a true freshman ... Had eight pins and four major decisions among 24 wins, including one in a SoCon dual against Davidson ... Pulled out narrow wins in SoCon duals against VMI (8-5), Chattanooga (3-0) and Presbyterian (6-4) ... Went 3-0 at the Mountaineer Invitational and 4-0 (with two pins) at the Patriot Open ... In April 2023, earned All-America recognition by finishing eighth in his U20 Freestyle bracket (92 kg) at the US Open Wrestling Championship in Las Vegas, then followed that with a seventh-place finish at the 2023 U20 Freestyle World Team Trials in Geneva, Ohio.
High School: 4-A state champion at 285 pounds as a senior and two-time state finalist … Went 49-3 as a senior and 32-1 as a junior … Regional champion and state runner-up at 195 pounds as a junior after placing fourth at the state championships at 170 pounds as a sophomore, when he posted a 33-13 record … First place at the NC Freestyle State Championship in 2022.
