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Tyson Dippery

Tyson Dippery

  • Weight:
    133
  • Class:
    Redshirt Junior
  • Hometown:
    Harrisburg, Pa.
  • Highschool:
    Central Dauphin

Summary

Biography

Career Honors: 2016 NCAA Championships qualifier … 2016 Big Ten Championships placewinner, finishing sixth … 2016, 2015 and 2014 East Stroudsburg Open Champion … 2014 EIWA Championships placewinner, finishing sixth.

2016-17 (As a redshirt junior): Notched a 4-2 mark to finish one win shy of placing at the 54th Annual Ken Kraft Midlands Championships (Dec. 29-30) … captured a 7-2 decision against Princeton’s Pat D’Arcy in the “Battle at the Birthplace” at High Point Solutions Stadium (Nov. 19) … went 5-0 for the top spot at the East Stroudsburg University Open, his third title at the event (Nov. 6).

2015-16 (As a redshirt sophomore): Ended his sophomore campaign 18-15 overall and 13-8 in dual competition … went 0-2 at his first NCAA Championships (March 17-19) … wrestled to a sixth-place finish at the Big Ten Championships, earning an automatic qualifying bid for the NCAA Championships (March 5-6) … earned the first Intermat ranking of his career, coming in at No. 20 on March 8 … topped Ian Brown, 6-0, in RU’s NWCA National Duals win over No. 7 Lehigh (Feb. 20) … scored 14 near fall points in the first period of  a tech fall in the win over No. 23 Purdue (Feb. 14) … entered the rankings for the first time at No. 19 by WIN Magazine (Feb. 1) … escaped with time winding down to defeat Princeton’s Chris Perez, 6-5 (Jan. 31) … scored 14 near fall points in an 18-0 tech fall over Kaelan Richards of Michigan State (Jan. 8) … competed at the 53rd Annual Ken Kraft Midlands Championships, finishing one win shy of placing (Dec. 29-30) … went 2-0 with a tech fall and decision at the “Grapple at the Garden” (Nov. 29) … won by a 10-0 major decision against Utah Valley’s Brayden Humphreys in Corvallis, Ore. (Nov. 21) … pinned Northern Iowa’s Gunnar Wolfensperger in 30 seconds in his final match at the Journeymen/Asics Northeast Duals (Nov. 15) … one of four Scarlet Knights to get 3-0 at the Rutgers Duals, registering three decisions (Nov. 1).

2014-15 (As a sophomore): Went 26-6 wrestling unattached … finished sixth at the Edinboro Open at 149 pounds … took third at the “Shorty” Hitchcock Memorial Invitational at 149 pounds, defeating Ian Brown (Lehigh) in the third-place match after losing by fall to Brown earlier in the tournament (Jan. 18) … placed second at the Nittany Lion Open with a 4-1 performance (Dec. 7) … ended the TCNJ Open as runner-up after dropping a tight 4-3 decision against former high school teammate Shyhiem Brown of Maryland  in the final (Nov. 22) … captured his second consecutive East Stroudsburg Open championship at 141 pounds, going 6-0 on the day (Nov. 16) … wrestled unattached at the Clarion Open, going 2-2 due to a pair of injury defaults (Nov. 2) … began the day 2-0 but defaulted in the championship and consolation semifinals.

2013-14 (As a freshman): Went 24-14 during rookie campaign, including a 9-5 record in dual action ... finished sixth at the 2014 EIWA Championships, going 3-3 during the tournament ... had both a win by fall and technical fall at EIWAs ... tallied his first win by fall in dual action by taking down Harvard's Colby Knight in 2:09 (Jan. 5) ... began his career with four consecutive dual victories, a streak snapped by former high school teammate Shyhiem Brown of Maryland at the "Grapple at the Garden" (Dec. 1) ... posted a nine-bout winning streak from Nov. 17-Dec. 1 ... won in his first-career dual match against Clarion's Tyler Bedelyon, 7-3 ... posted a 5-0 clip at the East Stroudsburg University Open to take first place (Nov. 17) ... finished with a 6-2 record at the Clarion Open (Nov. 3).

Prior to Rutgers: Recorded a 183-15 record at Central Dauphin, good for the most wins in school history ... was a member of two state championship teams ... ranked No. 41 overall recruit and No. 9 at 138 pounds by Intermat ... finished 2012 and 2013 as the state runner-up ... four-time sectional champ and three-time South Regional Champion ... won the 2013 FloNationals Championship ... placed third at the PIAA State Championships in 2011 ... posted a win at the 2012 Greco State Championships.

Personal: Son of John and Gwen ... has two sisters, Taylor and Zoey ... intends to major in exercise science and sports studies.
YEAR OVERALL DUALS (B1G) TRN (B1G/NCAA) MD (DUALS) TF (DUALS) F (DUALS) FASTEST DUAL PTS.
2013-14 22-14 9-5 (---) (---/---) 3 (1) 6 (2) 3 (1) 0:20 37
2014-15 Redshirt Season
2015-16 18-15 13-8 (4-5) (2-3/0-2) 1 (1) 3 (3) 1 (1) 0:30 49
2016-17 12-3 3-1 (0-0) (---/---) - 5 (2) 2 (-) 0:14 13
CAREER 52-32 25-14 (4-5) (2-3/0-2) 4 (2) 14 (7) 6 (2) 0:14 99

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