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Big Strides for Duke’s Latest Rising Star

This story originally ran in 11.5 Issue of GoDuke, the Magazine — Dec. 2019
Fifteen months into his collegiate wrestling career, redshirt freshman Mason Eaglin is starting to come into his own, while also bringing comparisons to one of the all-time great Blue Devil wrestlers, Conner Hartmann. Eaglin and Hartmann share a hometown in Port Orchard, Wash., 13 miles west of West Seattle, and an alma mater in South Kitsap High School. Hartmann arrived at Duke in August of 2011 right on the heels of Eaglin’s 11th birthday and with current head coach Glen Lanham serving in the assistant coach role. Fast forward a few years and Hartmann was on his way to becoming Duke’s most decorated wrestler in program history as a four-time NCAA qualifier and three-time NCAA All-American, while Eaglin was starting to compile an impressive scholastic resumé at South Kitsap. Eaglin was a four-time 4A state placer and two-time state finalist, winning the top prize at 170 pounds his senior season and going 35-1 overall. While wrestling is not for the feint of heart at any level, the competition in the wrestling room at the Division I collegiate level ramps up a notch. Eaglin, possessing an exemplary work ethic, started the grind as soon as he stepped on campus as his expectations of life in the room being challenging both physically and emotionally were quickly confirmed in an early-season weekend practice. “We did a really hard live practice on a Saturday where it was a lot of matches and … https://goduke.com/news/2020/1/13/wrestling-big-strides-for-dukes-latest-rising-star.aspx?mc_cid=4454b8e7c1&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

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