2016-17 Wrestling Roster
Roster
Tyson Dippery
- Weight:
- 133
- Class:
- Redshirt Junior
- Hometown:
- Harrisburg, Pa.
- High School:
- Central Dauphin
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).
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 |
