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2021 INDIANA HOOSIERS INDIANA WRESTLING IU ATHLETICS MEDIA RELATIONS • JEREMY ROSENTHAL • ASSISTANT DIRECTOR E-MAIL - [email protected] • OFFICE - (812) 856-0948 • IUHOOSIERS.COM @IndianaWR INDIANA VS.3 MARYLAND #IUWR Indiana vs. Maryland Feb. 14, 2021 | 11:00 AM ET Stream: BTN Plus 2021 INDIANA Bloomington, Ind. | Wilkinson Hall WRESTLING SCHEDULE Record: 1-5 Date Opponent Time/Result 1/10 vs. Illinois L, 3-39 1/17 at Michigan L, 6-32 1/30 Northwestern, Penn State Tri at North- western L to PSU 15-24, W to NU 18-16 2/6 Michigan State (L, 10-28) Nebraska (L, 0-47) SETTING THE SCENE 2/14 vs. Maryland TBA • The Hoosiers will have nine dual matches over the course of the season. 2/22 at Purdue 8:00 p.m. (BTN) • The Hoosiers have 23 freshmen/sophomores on their roster. • The Hoosiers return Brock Hudkins, who is a 2X NCAA Qualifier. 3/6-7 Big Ten Championships • Graham Rooks finished the 2020 season beating five ranked opponents State College, Pa. and was a 2X Big Ten Wrestler of the Week. • The Hoosiers have had back-to-back classes ranked in the top-25. 3/18-20 NCAA Championships • The Hoosiers set an attendance record in the 2019-20 season. St. Louis, Mo. • Jacob Moran won an extra match against cadet world champion Kurt McHenry of Michigan. • DJ Washington was selected Big Ten Wrestler of the Week following wins over No. 5 Carter Starocci of Penn State and Troy Fisher of Northwestern. • The Hoosiers won their first dual of the season against Northwestern, 18-16 and their 15 points against Penn State was their most since 2009. • Washington beat No. 17 Drew Hughes of Michigan State in a major decision 16-3. IU HEAD COACH ANGEL ESCOBEDO Angel Escobedo - Indiana Alma Mater: Indiana (2010) Record at Indiana: 9-27 (Third Year) Overall Record: 9-27 (Third Year) • Only 4X All-American in Indiana wrestling program history • Second in IU history for career wins (137) • 2008 National Champion at 125 lb • Fifth-place at 2013 World Championships • Second-Place at 2015 Pan American Games @INDIANAWR 1 2021 INDIANA HOOSIERS Wilkinson Hall Young Talent • On January 13, 2019 the Hoosiers opened their • The Indiana sophomore class was ranked the new arena, Wilkinson Hall with a 36-3 win over No. 16 class. Maryland. • Asa Garcia, Cayden Rooks and Nick South • On January 27, 2019 Indiana hosted #1 Penn were named High School All-Americans. All went State in front of a record crowd of 1,962, the most to high school in Indiana. for a home match in program history. • Garcia, Rooks and South combined for seven • The Hoosiers set an attendance record with state championships and a 458-29 high school 1,630 fans per match in the 2019-20 season. record. • The sophomore class combined for 10 high Ranked Hoosiers school state championships The Hoosiers have five wrestlers ranked this week All In The Family The Hoosiers have three sets of brothers on their 125 Brock Hudkins (12) 2020-21 roster. 141 Paul Konrath (28) 149 Graham Rooks (15) Graham Rooks & Cayden Rooks 165 Nick South (26) Jonathan Moran & Jacob Moran 174 DJ Washington (28) Eddie Bolivar & Nico Bolivar The Rooks Brothers The 2020 Freshmen Class Brothers Graham and Cayden Rooks both won • The freshman class was ranked No. 25 in the Indiana High School State Championships and country and includes: are now helping IU Wrestling. Santos Cantu (4X Oregon State Champion) Derek Gilcher (3X Michigan State Champion) • The two combined for a 36-23 record in the Jacob Moran (Indiana 2018 State Champion) 2019-20 season, including 10 Big Ten dual match wins. Indiana Success The Hoosiers have several freshmen/ South, Washington and Garcia as sophomores on the roster that competed well at Redshirts Indiana High School State Championships. • The trio of Nick South, DJ Washington and Asa Garcia combined for a 60-20 record in the 2019- Asa Garcia 2019 State Champion (132) 20 season. Cayden Rooks 2019 State Champion (138) • Garcia won the National Collegiate Open and Nick South 2019 State Champion (170) finished the season with an 8 match win streak. Donnell Washington 2019 Runner-Up (160) • Washington finished in sixth-place at the Jacob Moran 2019 State Champion (113) Midlands Championships as a true freshman. Robert Deters 2020 State Champion (170) • South won the Greyhound Open and finished runner-up at the MSU Open and Ohio Open. Willham at Junior Nationals Sophomore Nick WIllham earned All-Ameican honors at the UWW Junior Nationals in Omaha, Neb., on Nov. 15. @INDIANAWR 2 2021 INDIANA WRESTLING PROBABLE LINEUP INDIANA HOOSIERS Weight Name Year Hometown Record 125 Jacob Moran Fr. Portage, Ind. 4-3 or #14 Brock Hudkins Sr. Danville, Ind. 0-2 133 Kyle Luigs RJr. Evansville, Ind. 0-5 141 Cayden Rooks So. Columbus, Ind. 2-4 149 #14 Graham Rooks RSo. Columbus, Ind. 1-1 157 Matt Ortiz So. Saint Charles, Ill. 1-4 165 #24 Nick South So. North Vernon, Ind. 2-4 174 #6 DJ Washington So. Portage, Ind. 4-2 184 Drayton Harris Fr. Gallatin, Mo. 0-6 197 #28 Nick Willham So. Greenwood, Ind. 2-4 285 Rudy Streck Jr. Merrillville, Ind. 0-3 or Jacob Bullock So. Cahokia, Ill. 1-3 Head Coach: Angel Escobedo Assistant Coach: Jason Tsirtsis | Assistant Coach: Sam Wendland | Volunteer Assistant: Isaac Jordan Brock Hudkins Kyle Luigs Cayden Rooks Sr. 125 RJr. 133 So. 141 Danville, Ind. Evansville, Ind. Columbus, Ind. Graham Rooks Matt Ortiz Nick South RSo. 149 So. 157 So. 165 Columbus, Ind. Saint Charles, North Vernon, Ill. Ind. DJ Washington Drayton Harris Nick Willham So. 174 Fr. 184 So. 197 Portage, Ind. Gallatin, Mo. Greenwood, Ind. Jacob Bullock So. 285 Cahokia, Ill. 3 @INDIANAWR 2021 INDIANA WRESTLING HOMETOWN: Gary, Ind. ANGEL ESCOBEDO COLLEGE: Indiana (2010) HEAD COACH 1ST YEAR One of the most successful wrestlers in Indiana University history, Angel Escobedo became the eighth head coach in program history on April 6, 2018. He begins his third year as the head coach of the Hoosiers in 2020. In the 2019-20 season the Hoosiers had two NCAA qualifiers in Liam Cronin and Graham Rooks. Cronin (125) and Rooks (149) both finished the season ranked in the top-20 and beat a total of nine ranked opponents on the season. Cronin finished fifth at the Big Ten Championships and Rooks finished in 10th place. In his first season at the helm for the Hoosiers in the 2018-19 slate, Escobedo guided the Hoosiers to two wins over ranked opponents (#12 North Carolina, #25 Stanford). It was the first since the 2008-09 season Indiana has two ranked wins in a season. The Hoosiers win over North Carolina was the programs first win over a top-15 opponent since 2008. The Hoosiers closed the dual match season with a 32-0 win against Chattanooga. It was their first shutout since the 2015 season. In the first year in the Hoosiers new arena, Wilkinson Hall, the team saw record crowds, as they finished the season ranked 21st in average attendance among NCAA DI schools for the 2018-19 season. The Hoosiers set a school record for single match attendance with 1,962 people on hand for their match against Penn State. For the season the team had an average at- tendance of 1,286. Escobedo assumed the reins of the program after spending one year as IU’s associate head coach along with three years on the Iowa State staff. A native of Gary, Ind., Escobedo was a dominant wrestler for the Hoosiers from 2007-10. As a sophomore, he won the 2008 NCAA title at 125 pounds, and he captured Big Ten titles in the weight class three times (2008-10). He’s the program’s only four- time All-American, and his 137 career wins (second) and 42 pins (third) rank among the best in IU history. After wrapping up his IU career in 2010, Escobedo competed internationally and was a member of Team USA. Among his top performances was a fifth-place finish at the 2013 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, and a second-place finish at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto. While training full-time for the international circuit, he spent three years on Iowa State’s coaching staff from 2015-17, where he helped develop a handful of the Cyclones’ lightweight wrestlers into national contenders. Among his most notable wrestlers was two-time All-American and four-time NCAA qualifier Earl Hall. He plans to make Indiana a force in the nation’s premier college wrestling conference, the Big Ten. “It’s having that IU logo on your chest when you’re wrestling,” Escobedo said. “I want to put the state Indiana back on the map of collegiate wrestling and I’ve always wanted to make Indiana known for what it is: a great state for wrestling.” Angel and his wife, Pauli, have three children – Malachi and Saniyah and Zoe. Coaching Experience OVERALL COACHING RECORD: 9-27 (3rd Year) IOWA STATE: Assistant Coach, 2015-17 INDIANA COACHING RECORD: 9-27 (3rd Year) INDIANA UNIVERSITY: Associate Head Coach, 2017-18 INDIANA UNIVERSITY: Head Coach, 2018-present 4 @INDIANAWR 2021 INDIANA WRESTLING INDIANA WRESTLING 2020-21 ROSTER Name Year Weight Hometown/Previous School Luke Baughman So. 149 Wadsworth, Ohio/Wadsworth Eddie Bolivar So. 141 Oak Park, Ill./Oak Park Nico Bolivar Fr. 133 Oak Park, Ill./Oak Park Jacob Bullock So. 285 Cahokia, Ill. Santos Cantu Fr. 184 Salem, Ore./Crescent Valley Jack Chesman So. 157 Pearl River, N.Y./Pearl River Sammy Cokeley RJr.