Nassau CC Wrestlers
win the 2015 NJCAA (Div. III) National Championship
The
Nassau Community College Wrestling Team captured their seventh NJCAA
(Div. III) National Championship in Des Moines, IA this past weekend.
Freshman Joseph
Russ (133) became the twelfth Nassau
Community College wrestler to win an individual national
championship. Russ avenged
an early season loss by beating the #1 ranked wrestler Mizam Tamaradze
from Springfield Tech CC (8-5) in the finals of the national
tournament.
The Lions had two wrestlers also earn All-American honors Mark
West (141) and Giovanni
Santiago (184). Although the following
wrestlers did not earn All-American honors they won valuable points
which helped Nassau Community College win the overall team title; Josh
Antoine (125), Tom McLoughlin (149), Sam Schwartzapfel (157), Deuly
Espinal (165), Zack Small (174) and Jenard Rosemond (285). Also
five wrestlers were named to the Coaches All-Academic team (Josh
Antoine, Deuly Espinal, Dominic Holder, Tom Mcloughlin and Danny
Weiss).
Coach Paul Schmidt was named NJCAA
(Div. III) National Coach of the Year.