nico

Career Accolades

  • NCAA qualifier (2023)
  • NWCA Scholar All-American (2023)

As a Freshman (2022-23)

  • NWCA Scholar All-American
  • 20-11 overall and 6-5 in duals at 125 pounds
    • One of six Cardinal with 20+ wins on the season
    • Four wins by bonus points
    • Two wins over ranked opponents
  • Finished fourth at the Pac-12 Championships (March 5) at Maples Pavilion
  • Earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament in Tulsa
  • Won the Menlo Open (Nov. 6), and placed third at the Mountaineer Invitational (Nov. 12) and the Southern Scuffle (Jan. 1-2)

Freestyle & Greco-Roman

  • Placed fifth at 57kg in Freestyle at the Dan Kolov-Nikola Petrov Tournament ini Bulgaria (2022)
  • Third place at U23 World Team Trials (2021)
  • U.S. National Team member (2019)
  • USMC/USA W Junior National runner up in Freestyle (2019)
  • Pan American Team member (2019)
    • Freestyle champion
    • Bronze in Greco 
  • Flo Nationals runner-up in Greco and third in Freestyle (2019)

Prior to Stanford

  • A 2021 graduate of Greens Farms Academy in Westport, Conn.
  • Four-year letterwinner
  • Three-time Prep State Champion (2018, 2019, 2020)
  • National Prep Open Champion (2021)
  • Three-time Prep New England Champion (2018, 2019, 2020)
  • Two-time National Prep All-American, placing fifth (2019, 2020)
  • Fargo All-American (2021)
  • Senior National Champion (2021)
  • Northeast Regional champion in Freestyle (2019)
  • Super 32 runner-up (2019)
  • 2020 Prep Slam runner-up
  • 2018 Prep Slam third place
  • 2018 Northeast Regional Greco runner-up
  • Connecticut's 2021 recipient of the Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award
  • Three-time Head of School Academic Distinction-Year (2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21)
  • NHSCA First Team Academic All-American (2021)
  • Academic All-American (2020)
  • First recipient of the Distinguished Athlete Award at Green Farms Academy
  • 2018-19 recipient of the Lynne A. Laukhuf Citizenship Prize

Personal

  • Parents are Joseph Provo and Jacqueline Shannon
  • Has six siblings - Giovanna, Noah, Shannon, Halle, Georgia and Juliana
  • Full name is Nico Anthony Provo
Career Numbers
YearRecordDual RecordDual PointsFallsTechnical Falls
2022-2320-116-52012