Lehigh Wrestling Recruits for Class of 2011

[ngineer]

Lehigh appears to have attracted another nice class--granted not as bally-hooed as last years, but still a lot of quality with excellent academics.

125--Connor MacDonald--Sussex Central, 158-9, 3x DE State Champ. Chose LU over Penn State, Maryland, and Indiana

133/141 Kyle Rosser--Corunna HS, Michigan, 201-16, Engineering/Pre-med
Chose LU over Ohio U and Central Mich.

157--Sean Bilodeau--Brooks School, Harvard, MA, 103-7, Defeated #1 157 in Pa, Darling from Nazareth at BOE, Chose LU over Penn, Ohio St, Michigan

165--Brandon Hatchett--Winter Springs, FL, 3x FL State Champ, wrestled for Wade Schalles in HS. Chose LU over Arizona St, and Nebraska

Hwt--Zach Rey-Hopatcong, NJ, defending NJ State Champ, ranked #1 by Intermat earlier in season. Chose LU over Minnesota and Bucknell

Also--Ben Marich--Northwestern Lehigh HS, 2x District 11 Champ, walkon recruit.
Some additional recruits may be announce in next few weeks.

[ngineer]

Since 1993, the most all-american wrestlers at the NCAA Wrestling Championships hail from which states? (i.e. native states)




Pennsylvania--79
Ohio----------61
California-----45
Iowa---------44
New Jersey---42
Oklahoma-----39
Illinois--------35
New York-----33
Michigan-----32
Minnesota----25

These are individuals, not medals, which many have won more than one, but the list would still be mostly unchanged.

[ChickenMan]

Lehigh appears to have attracted another nice class--granted not as bally-hooed as last years, but still a lot of quality with excellent academics.

125--Connor MacDonald--Sussex Central, 158-9, 3x DE State Champ. Chose LU over Penn State, Maryland, and Indiana



It will be interestng to see how MacDonald does at the college level.. he is an outstanding wrestler.. but he will definately be an undersized 125. MacDonald wrestled his first three years at 103 and moved up to 119 this year. He has the skill.. but may have some trouble dealing with the college wrestlers that are cutting a lot of weight to get down to 125.

[ngineer]

It will be interestng to see how MacDonald does at the college level.. he is an outstanding wrestler.. but he will definately be an undersized 125. MacDonald wrestled his first three years at 103 and moved up to 119 this year. He has the skill.. but may have some trouble dealing with the college wrestlers that are cutting a lot of weight to get down to 125.

I think they may be also seeing him redshirt a year as Fisk has two more years and doesn't seem to be growing. That would give MacDonald some more time to 'bulk up'.