Wrestling team named Top 30 NWCA Scholar All-America team, six individuals earn NWCA Scholar All-American honors
MANHEIM, Pa. – The Olivet College wrestling team was honored as a National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Scholar All-America team, while seven wrestlers earned NWCA Scholar All-American honors for the 2022-23 season.
MANHEIM, Pa. – The Olivet College wrestling team was honored as a National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Scholar All-America team, while seven wrestlers earned NWCA Scholar All-American honors for the 2022-23 season.
Under the leadership of head coach Brandon Brissette, the Comets posted the 28th-highest grade point average among all NCAA Division III wrestling programs. Olivet's GPA was 3.492 and have now received this award 21 times since 1998.
The six individuals who were selected the NWCA Scholar All-American team are junior Justin Carnahan, sophomore Robert Davids, sophomore Ramiro Guerrero, senior Owen Guilford, sophomore Tyler Herrema, freshman Darren McLeod and sophomore Jay Shaull. Olivet's seven honorees are the most by one school in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
Guilford becomes only the third wrestler in school history to be a four-time NWCA Scholar All-American. Carnahan and Herrema are now two-time honorees. The other four Comets are earning the honor for the first time. These seven student-athletes are among the 365 individuals representing 88 institutions on the list of honorees. Since the inception of the NWCA Scholar All-American award in 1984, 77 Olivet student-athletes have combined to earn 142 total awards.
| Finish | Team | Team GPA |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Mass.) | 3.767 |
| 2 | Heidelberg (Ohio) University | 3.766 |
| 3 | Stevens Institute of Technology (N.J.) | 3.734 |
| 4 | Johns Hopkins (Md.) University | 3.727 |
| 5 | Rochester Institute of Technology (N.Y.) | 3.720 |
| 6 | Washington and Lee (Va.) University | 3.672 |
| 7 | Trinity (Conn.) College | 3.6672 |
| 8 | Ohio Northern University | 3.667 |
| 9 | Case Western Reserve (Ohio) University | 3.656 |
| 10 | Williams (Mass.) College | 3.634 |
| 11 | University of Chicago (Ill.) | 3.629 |
| 12 | Augsburg (Minn.) University | 3.605 |
| 13 | Baldwin Wallace (Ohio) University | 3.597 |
| 14 | Springfield (Mass.) College | 3.592 |
| 15 | Lycoming (Pa.) College | 3.584 |
| 16 | Coast Guard Academy (Conn.) | 3.580 |
| 17 | Wesleyan (Conn.) University | 3.574 |
| 18 | New York University | 3.572 |
| 19 | Wabash (Ind.) College | 3.563 |
| 20 | John Carroll (Ohio) University | 3.540 |
| 21 | Albion College | 3.538 |
| 22 | Ithaca (N.Y.) College | 3.532 |
| 23 | Castleton (Vt.) University | 3.530 |
| 24 | University of Wisconsin-La Crosse | 3.519 |
| 25 | Roger Williams (R.I.) University | 3.5185 |
| 26 | Gettysburg (Pa.) College | 3.513 |
| 27 | University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire | 3.497 |
| 28 | OLIVET COLLEGE | 3.492 |
| 29 | McDaniel (Md.) College | 3.485 |
| 30 | University of Wisconsin-Platteville | 3.483 |