Rider Wrestling

Happy Father's Day to all of the dads! Wishing you all a wonderful day, especially our coaches and wrestlers who get to celebrate being an amazing dad today!

This year we are losing a core member of our program to a well deserved retirement. Gerry Green has been the Strength and Conditioning Coach for our team and entire athletic department for the last 37 years. We are so grateful for the impact he has had on our program and all the success he has helped us obtain.

We couldn't sent him onto his retirement without a piece of Rider Wrestling to take with him. Thank you Gerry and enjoy your relaxation.

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Please join us in congratulating these Broncs on their graduation this past weekend! We are so grateful for what each of them has done to positively impact our program over the years. We are fortunate enough to have some of them returning next year and wish the very best to those who will be moving on.

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There is no mom like a wrestling mom! Wishing all the moms a wonderful Mother's Day.

This year's Gary Taylor Most Outstanding Wrestler Award is senior Quinn Kinner. This season Quinn Kinner earned All-American honors, a Conference Title, his 100th career victory, all why being his teammates biggest hype man. We will miss his passion, hard work and love for being a Bronc next year.

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Congratulations to our manager on a wonderful accomplishment.

Rider senior recognized for excellence in special education Rylee Diffenderfer awarded 2024 Department of Teacher Education Special Education Award

The Fred Henson Award is given to the individual who continuously demonstrates hard-work and dedication on and off the mat. This year's recipient, Cole McComas, does just that. Cole has been a part of our program for four years and always puts his team first doing whatever they ask of him. He works hard in the classroom and in the wrestling room and we are grateful to have a student athlete like Cole.

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The Mario Ianni memorial Award was created to honor a member of the team who goes above and beyond for his teammates. This year's recipients are Hayden Horsey and Richie Koehler who always put the team first! Hayden can be found spending his free time tutoring his teammates to help boost the team's academics. Richie can always be found motivating his teammates in the room or mat side cheering them on in their matches no matter the result of his own. These are two seniors the program will miss tremendously next year.

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This year our Most Improved Wrestler is 157 pounder Colton Washleski. Over the past year Colton has jumped levels. Last year, Colton went 6-15 in competition. This season he had a record of 31-10 AND was a National Qualifier.

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We wrapped up our season yesterday at our end of the year awards banquet. Thank you to all of our families and alumni for joining us to celebrate another successful season.

Stay tuned this week as we highlight this years recipients of our annual awards.

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Less than one week until Comedy Night! Come help support the Rider Wrestling Program AND have a fun night out with friends! Ticket includes dinner, one drink from the cash bar, and a hilarious show. There will also be tickets sold for various raffle baskets!

📅 Friday April 26th
⌚️7PM
📍 NJM Room • BLC • Rider University
🎟️ https://alumni.rider.edu/wrestling-comedy

Great interview with Nic Bedelyon and Mike of where they look back on the 23-24 season and NCAA's and share what is so special about our program! Listen now on Rokfin!

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Coach Nic Bedelyon: Rider Wrestling Update | True Wrestling on Rokfin Get all of True Wrestling's content on Rokfin.

Two Broncs have been making some noise at the international level of wrestling!

Steyn De Lange secured himself a trip to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris by defeating Tunisia’s Mohamed Saadaoui. South Africa has not had an Olympic qualifier in the sport in 16 years!

Will Betancourt pinched his ticket to the U23 World Championships being held in Albania. Will won the 61kg World Team Trials while representing Puerto Rico.

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5️⃣ Broncs were named Scholar All-Americans through !

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Want to help support the Rider Wrestling Program AND have a fun night out with friends? Come out to our 2nd annual comedy night! Ticket includes dinner, one drink from the cash bar, & a hilarious show. There will also be tickets sold for various raffle baskets!

📅 Friday April 26th
⌚️7PM
📍 NJM Room • BLC • Rider University
🎟️ https://alumni.rider.edu/wrestling-comedy

We may be a day late for National Athletic Training Month but that's okay because we celebrate Tim and the rest of the staff all year long! Thank you to Tim and all of the Athletic Trainers for always being in our corner and keeping the Broncs on the mat.

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Happy Easter from our family to yours!

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In the last 10 years the Broncs have produced 9 ALL-AMERICANS with 5 of them coming in the last 5 seasons. The program continues to grow and compete with the best competition we can get to assure there's a Bronc on the podium every year. We're grateful to have such great alumni support that comes back to cheer on new All Americans every year at that National Tournament.

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It's a 8th place finish for our captain Quinn Kinner. Kinner caps off his career with the Broncs as an All-American, 2x MAC Champion, 102 wins, and a career that will be cemented into the Rider Wrestling Program for years to come.

Thank you, Quinn Kinner!

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QUINN KINNER IS AN ALL-AMERICAN!

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With his 4-3 win in the consolation, Quinn Kinner picked up a prestigious accomplishment by earning his 100th career win.

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1 Day until senior Quinn Kinner from Mullica Hill, New Jersey makes his final appearance at The NCAA Tournament. Quinn is currently 17-9 on the year and is coming off of his second conference title! He enters the tournament as the 11th seed at 149 pounds and will face #22 Gabe Willochell of Wyoming Thursday morning.

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2 Days until junior David Szuba from Brick, New Jersey makes his first appearance at The NCAA Tournament. David is currently 23-8 on the year and is coming off of his first conference title! He enters the tournament as the 18th seed at 285 pounds and will face #15 Lewis Fernandes of Cornell Thursday morning.

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3 Days until sophomore Colton Washleski from Felmington, New Jersey makes his first appearance at The NCAA Tournament. Colton is currently 29-8 on the year and has been the most dominant Broncs all year. He enters the tournament as the 30th seed at 157 pounds and will face #3 Meyer Shapiro of Cornell Thursday morning.

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4 Days until junior Michael Wilson from Annandale, New Jersey makes his first appearance at The NCAA Tournament. Wilson is currently 21-11 on the year and was your MAC runner up last week. He enters the tournament as the 31st seed at 174 pounds and will face #2 Cade Devos of SDSU Thursday morning.

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5 Days until Junior Tyler Klinsky from Middletown, New Jersey makes his first appearance at The NCAA Tournament. Tyler is currently 20-12 on the year with some significant wins from the regular season. He enters the tournament as the 31st seed at 125 pounds and will face #2 Luke Stanich of Lehigh Thursday morning.

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SIX days until these five Broncs take on Kansas City for the 2024 National Championship!

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Brackets are officially out!

#31 Tyler Klinsky will face #2 Luke Stanich of Lehigh

#11 Quinn Kinner will face #22 Gabe Willochell of WYO

#30 Colton Washleski will face #3 Meyer Shapiro of Cornell

#31 Michael Wilson will face #2 Cade Devos of South Dakota State

#18 David Szuba will face #15 Lewis Fernandez of Cornell

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Tune into the Selection Show tonight at 8PM to see where the 5️⃣ Broncs fall in their brackets! The broadcast will be live on NCAA.com

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