Career: NCAA qualifier as a SoCon champion in 2021 at 157 pounds and 2024 at 149 pounds, with a non-competing NCAA trip as a second alternate as the SoCon runner-up at 157 pounds in 2022 ... Career record of 80-39 after winning two matches at the 2024 NCAAs ... Earned a Master’s Degree in higher education and was honored in 2024 by the SoCon with Pinnacle Award as the student-athlete with the highest GPA on the championship-winning team … NWCA Division I Scholar All-American in 2024 ... Hired as a college head coach at Truett McConnell shortly after App State career ended.
2023-24: All-SoCon and SoCon champion at 157 ... Went 26-8 with a 2-2 record at the NCAAs … NWCA Division I Scholar All-American ... Had an 8-3 mark in duals (7-0 in SoCon duals) ... Seeded 18th in Kansas City, opened event with a 11-4 decision against No. 15 Corbyn Munson on Central Michigan before losing 4-2 to No. 2 Kyle Parco of Arizona State … Followed loss with 10-5 win against Rutgers’ Michael Cetta before dropping an 8-7 decision to Jadan Abas of Stanford … Went 3-0 at SoCon Championship, with a 2-0 finals win against The Citadel’s Jeffrey Boyd ... Turned defense to offense on tiebreaking takedown with 1:25 left and finished on top, getting two back points, to prevail 7-1 against Campbell’s Justin Rivera in semifinal showdown ... Southern Scuffle runner-up thanks to semifinal pin of top-10 Jadan Abas from Stanford and OT loss in final ... Won Mountaineer Invitational title with a ranked victory in the final (against No. 31 Michael Gioffre from Virginia) ... Transitioned from 157 to 149, a spot held down by Jon Jon Millner for last four seasons.
2022-23: Received hardship waiver due to injury ... Went 9-8 overall at 157 pounds and 1-1 in duals, with a win by fall against Queens ... Went a month between competitions before returning against Queens on Dec. 20 and didn't compete again after the Southern Scuffle on Jan. 2, when he went 3-2 ... Placed fourth at the Keystone Classic ... Had one pin, one tech fall and one major decision.
2021-22: SoCon runner-up at 157 pounds and traveled to Detroit as a second alternate for the NCAA Championships … Possessed a top-33 national ranking throughout a season which he went 19-8 overall … Went 9-2 in duals and 7-0 in SoCon duals … Reached the SoCon final and dropped a 5-4 decision with the lone automatic NCAA berth at stake against The Citadel's Dazjon Casto, who went on to win three matches against ACC opponents in Detroit — App State didn’t face The Citadel during the regular season … Amassed 30 team points with one pin, one tech fall, four major decisions and one decision in his seven SoCon duals … Won two matches at the Southern Scuffle … Had a 10-match winning streak to reach the SoCon final.
2020-21 (Didn't count against eligibility because of COVID): SoCon champion at 157 pounds as a first-year starter … Clinched automatic NCAA Championships berth by using an improbable four-point near fall to break a second-overtime tie in a 10-5 decision against Campbell’s Benjamin Barton, who had won the regular-season meeting 5-4 … Dropped decisions by 11-5 and 5-4 scores against Oregon State’s Hunter Willis and UNC’s Joshua McClure … Finished season at 13-6 after win in SoCon final gave him a 13-4 record … Went 7-1 in SoCon duals and 3-0 at the SoCon Championship … Had a 7-2 record in App State’s duals … Headed into the NCAAs with 11 wins in last 12 matches … Three of four regular-season losses were against Barton (NCAA qualifier), NC State’s Hayden Hidlay (No. 2 in Coaches Ranking) and Virginia’s Justin McCoy (NCAA qualifier) … Won a 14-2 major decision in the SoCon quarterfinals and advanced to the final with an 8-5 decision against Presbyterian’s Zachary Phillips … In a 7-6 overtime decision against SoCon Freshman of the Year Weston Wichman of Chattanooga in the regular season, trailed 6-4 via Wichman's takedown with 1:05 left but registered an escape and then forced overtime as Wichman was penalized one point for another stalling infraction with six seconds left, as Bond tried to complete a takedown. Neither wrestler scored in the Sudden Victory-1 period, but when it ended, officials went to the replay monitor and confirmed that Wichman had committed an illegal hold.
2019-20: Went 13-9 at 149 pounds … Placed second at the Newberry Open with a 3-0 start before dropping an 8-6 decision in the final … Won twice at the National Collegiate Open and Appalachian Open.
2018-19: Did not compete for the Mountaineers.
2017-18: Went 1-2, wrestling unattached with a victory at the Hokie Open.
High School: Four-time 4-A Region 8 champion and four-time sectional champion who won a state title in Georgia as a sophomore at 113 pounds … 4-A state finalist at 138 pounds as a senior … Went 154-8 in his career, including 46-2 as a senior … Ended prep career as the only wrestler in Georgia history to make the state championships in four different weight classes … State runner-up at 106 pounds as a freshman and made states at 120 pounds during an injury-plagued junior season ... Coached by Richie Houston.
Personal: Full name is Cody Tyler Bond … Born May 16, 1999 … Son of Daryll and Cindy Bond … Has one sibling: Chase.
