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ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT Penn State has been ranked among the top 25 teams in the NWCA All-Academic list in 26 of the last 31 years, including 10 of 12 under head coach Cael Sanderson. NWCA TOP 25 PLACINGS AND NCAA FINISHES SINCE 1991 Acad. Place DNP DNP DNP 21st 19th 19th 9th 12th 10th 10th 26th 11th 15th 14th DNP 17th 17th 21st 16th 11th 12th 14th 18th 4th 10th 15th 25th 9th 24th None selected DNP 6th
GPA
3.22 3.27 3.27 3.26 3.19 3.18 3.15 3.03 3.10 3.06 3.06 2.90 2.93 2.97 2.98 3.07 3.08 2.99 2.94 3.09 2.92 2.90 2.60 2.86 2.57
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* Penn State wrestlers have earned eight NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarships. * Nittany Lion wrestlers have earned 72 NWCA Academic All-America honors. * Penn State wrestlers have earned 10 first-team CoSIDA Academic All-America honors. * A total of 41 Nittany Lions have earned Academic All-America laurels from the coaches association during Sanderson’s 13 years at Penn State. * Penn State wrestlers have earned 255 Big Ten All-Academic Team selections in 30 years.
THE PENN STATE WRESTLING CLUB Since 1980, the Penn State Wrestling Booster Club has made Penn State Wrestling a family affair. Approximately 1,200 members provide volunteer support for the team. They join wrestlers, parents, coaches and administrators at picnics, socials and the annual team banquet honoring team and individual accomplishments. They fill buses with fans to cheer on the team at away meets and at the Big Ten and NCAA Championships. Working alongside the Student Affiliate Club, the two organizations share the workload for Club events. The affiliates spread posters around town and campus to promote Penn State matches. The Student Affiliate Club creates fundraisers (like Dodgeball Domination) and is in charge of promoting the Penn State student section in Rec Hall. The Club produces 8-10 newsletters a year for its membership, which ranges across the United States in 29 states – from California to New England, Wisconsin to Texas. Fans get detailed reports on every club activity and every match, covering all squad members in and out of season and even independent redshirt competition. The Booster Club is now developing new strategies to better promote Nittany Lion wrestling. Proceeds from membership and donations have helped purchase equipment, produced both recruiting tapes for the coaches and annual highlight films available to the public, funded satellite broadcasts of matches and supported promotional activities such as schedule magnets and vacation prizes at wrestling matches. The Club’s many long-time members are always looking for new members willing to share their commitment to the best wrestling program East-of-the-Mississippi. Their wide-range of fundraising, promotional and social activities gives them all a deeply felt and widely shared sense of involvement in the program’s success.
* A total of 157 Nittany Lions have earned Big Ten All-Academic honors in Sanderson’s 13 years as mentor. * Penn State has had only two male athletes ever named the nation’s National Academic All-America of the Year and BOTH were wrestlers. Jim Martin was honored as such in 1989 and Matt Brown was honored in 2015.
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