Top 30 Teams | Individual Award Winners
STANFORD, Calif. –A nation-best seven Stanford wrestlers were recognized by the National Wrestling Coaches Association when the organization announced its all-academic team, Tuesday.
Stanford was 11th overall as a team with a 3.337 GPA, moving up five spots from last season. It marked the ninth consecutive season the Cardinal placed in the top 16 in the nation. Harvard topped the list once again with a 3.586 team GPA, while Brown (3.475), American (3.466), Kent State (3.423) and North Dakota State (3.396) rounded out the top 5.
Representing Stanford were redshirt seniors Peter Galli (science, technology and society) and Josh Marchok (management science and engineering), redshirt juniors Nathan Butler (computer science) and Connor Schram (science, technology and society), redshirt sophomore Paul Fox (science, technology and society), sophomore Joey McKenna and true freshman Gabriel Townsell. All seven of the Cardinal's selections were NCAA qualifiers.
Schram (133 pounds) and Butler (285 pounds) are both earning their third straight NWCA Academic All-America honors. Fox (157), who was an unseeded All-American in 2017, and Galli (174 pounds), who was the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year for wrestling, are both being recognized for the second time in their careers.
Following the Cardinal, Central Michigan and Minnesota had five wrestlers apiece named to the individual team, while nine different teams had four represented.
Joining Stanford's seven honorees from the Pac-12 Conference were Arizona State's Tanner Hall and CSU Bakersfield's Matt Williams. As a team, Boise State (30th) was the only other Pac-12 member listed in the top 30.
Awarded annually, the NWCA All-Academic Team contains 135 student-athletes and of those, 41 were All-Americans. The team grade-point average was determined using a system that includes 12 student-athletes from each program. Of the 76 Division I wrestling programs, 56 teams had at least one representative on the all-academic team.