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Wrestling returns to campus after a 38-year absence

Increased enrollment at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will soon bring two new additions to the college’s athletics offerings: a wrestling team and a women’s bowling team.
Wrestling returns to campus after a 38-year absence. Penn State Behrend offered NCAA wrestling from 1967 until 1978, using Erie Hall for practices and home matches. Wrestlers will again use that space beginning in the fall of 2017.
Pennsylvania has long been a dominant force in the sport: No other state has had more NCAA programs or produced more All-Americans in the last 50 years. Two wrestlers have been inducted into Penn State Behrend’s Athletics Hall of Fame. An active club team has continued to represent the college. The addition of a formal Division III team will elevate the sport at Penn State Behrend and provide an opportunity for the region’s high school wrestlers to continue to compete locally, said Brian Streeter, director of athletics for the college.
…. “Both sports reward students who are driven by individual success. Those tend to be good students who are determined to achieve, both in and out of the classroom, and who have the time-management skills to make that happen.” Penn State Behrend’s student-athletes compete at the NCAA’s Division III level. The college fields 24 teams and has for the past 12 years won the AMCC Presidents Cup, which honors the top overall athletics program in the conference. Those student-athletes also excel in the classroom: Sixty-three percent of the college’s student-athletes maintain a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or higher.
From Penn State Behrend College News

October 19, 2016 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized