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2016-17 Sun Devil Wrestling Weekly Notes Media Relations: Mollie Hanke | [email protected] | (480) 965-6594 | www.TheSunDevils.com ARIZONA STATE WRESTLING Sun Devils Set to Host Top-Five Ohio State 2016-17 SCHEDULE Date Opponent Venue/Score TEMPE, Ariz.—The Sun Devils welcome top-five Ohio State to Tempe in one of the most antici- Oct. 29 M&G Final M def G, 19-15 Nov. 4 N. Colorado W, 24-19 pated matchups early this season. Nov. 6 Daktronics Open No team score Nov. 13 Journeyman No team score Fans are encouraged to arrive early to get their seats and to grab a pitchfork drawstring bag Nov. 19 Ohio State Wells Fargo Dec. 2 Cliff Keen Invite Las Vegas, NV (first 150 fans through the door). Dec. 3 Cliff Keen Invite Las Vegas, NV Dec. 29 Midlands Evanston, IL WATCH LIVE Dec. 30 Midlands Evanston, IL For those who can’t travel to Wells Fargo Arena, the match will be streamed live at www.pac- Jan. 6 Iowa State Ames, IA Jan. 8 Cal Poly*$ Wells Fargo 12.com/live/arizona-state-university. Jan. 13 Virginia Duals Hampton, VA Jan. 14 Virginia Duals Hampton, VA BUY TICKETS Jan. 20 North Carolina$ Wells Fargo Jan. 22 Stanford* Palo Alto, CA Season tickets can be purchased by calling the ASU ticket office at (480) 965-5333 while Jan. 29 Illinois Wells Fargo matside seating can be purchased through the sales hotline at (480) 965-5812. Feb. 5 Oregon State*$ Corvallis, OR Feb. 9 CSUB*$ Wells Fargo CURLEY CULP TO BE HONORED Feb. 12 Boise State* Boise, ID Feb. 26 Pac-12 Champs.$ Palo Alto, CA Curley Culp, one of the best two-sport athletes Arizona State has ever seen, was an offensive Mar. 16 NCAA Champs. St. Louis, MO and defensive lineman in football as well as 1967 NCAA heavyweight champion. Mar. 17 NCAA Champs. St. Louis, MO Mar. 18 NCAA Champs. St. Louis, MO The five-time pro-bowler and 1975 NFL Defensive Player of the Year, Culp was enshrined in the $Pac-12 Network 2013 Pro Football Hall of Fame as well as the 2013 Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Fame. He was a *Pac-12 Conference game member of the Chiefs during their Super Bowl championship in Super Bowl IV. Probable Matchups Culp will have his singlet honored and raised to the Wells Fargo Arena rafters at halftime Satur- 125: Josh Kramer vs. Jose Rodriguez 133: #17 Ali Naser vs. Brendan Fitzgerald day as part of the day’s festivities. 141: Tyler Sage vs. #12 Ke-Shawn Hayes 149: #20 Josh Maruca vs. #7 Micah Jordan KEY MATCHUPS 157: Josh Shields vs. #9 Jake Ryan 165: #9 Anthony Valencia vs. Cody Burcher HWT | Tanner Hall vs. Kyle Snyder | Kyle Snyder (20) became the youngest Olympic gold 174: #7 Zahid Valencia vs. #1 Bo Jordan medalist in US wrestling history in Rio in August 2016. Since Sept. 2015, Snyder has won a 184: Conner Small vs. #2 Myles Martin World championship, Big Ten championship, NCAA title, and Olympic gold medal. 197: Austyn Harris vs #12 Kollin Moore HWT: #4 Tanner Hall vs #1 Kyle Snyder But Tanner Hall will not back down from the challenge as he currently has a 2-1 record over Coaching Staff the Olympic champion prior to their collegiate careers. Hall is ranked No. 4 among the nation’s Head Coach: Zeke Jones (3rd year, 21-14 duals) heavyweights by TrackWrestling, Intermat, and The Open Mat and competed at last season’s Assistant Coach: Lee Pritts (5th year) Assistant Coach: Chris Pendleton (3rd year) NCAA Nationals at Madison Square Garden as part of the Sun Devils’ No. 1 recruiting class. Volunteer Assistant: Haislan Garcia (1st year) Undergrad Asst Coach: Matt Kraus (1st year) 174 | Zahid Valencia vs. Bo Jordan | The Open Mat ranks this matchup the most anticipated Director of Operations: Maddie Schossow (1st year) match of the month of November out of likely over 7000 Division I collegiate matchups through- Student Asst. Director of Ops.: Madi Davies (1st year) Athletic Trainer: Carter Pruitt (2nd year) out the month. Media Relations: Mollie Hanke (1st year) UP NEXT ASU Wrestling Social Media The Sun Devils have Thanksgiving week off from competition before heading to Las Vegas for the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invite (Dec. 2-3). They return home Jan. 8 in their Pac-12 opener vs. Cal Poly. FACEBOOK Search: Sun Devil Wrestling SCOUTING OHIO STATE Eight of Ohio State’s starting lineup for this week are ranked by FloWrestling, Intermat, Amateur TWITTER Wrestling News, and TheOpenMat.com and six of those are top-10 wrestlers. Ohio State ranks @ASUWrestling No. 4 in this week’s USA Today/NWCA Coaches Poll and Micah Jordan leads the team with eight wins thus far this season, beating two ranked opponents to start the 2016-17 season. INSTAGRAM SunDevilWrestling1962 Last weekend, Ohio State went unbeaten at the Journeymen Collegiate Classic and at Eastern 2016-17 Sun Devil Wrestling Head Coach Zeke Jones The seventh coach in ASU wrestling history, Zeke Jones was hired in April 2014 and had his contract renewed in October 2016. In his first season with the Sun Devils, Jones led ASU to a second-place finish at the Pac-12 Championships, the best fin- ish since 2006, and coached six wrestlers to the 2015 NCAA Wrestling Champi- onships, including All-American Blake Stauffer (184 pounds). In 2015-16, the Sun Devils again returned six individuals to the NCAA championships. An Olympic silver medalist for the United States, Jones was the 1991 World Cham- pion at 52kg, a four-time World-Cup Champion, and coached United States’ Olympi- ans in the 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2012 Olympic Games. A member of ASU’s 1988 NCAA Wrestling Championship team, Jones was a three- time All-American and Pac-10 Champion for the Sun Devils. A national runner-up at 118, Jones sits at No. 4 in ASU’s career record book in both overall victories (134) and dual victories (59). He also holds the school record for dual match victories in a season with 22 during the 1989-90 campaign. As Olympic head coach, Jones’ athletes earned two gold medals and one bronze at the London Games in 2012. His athletes in the 2004 Athens Games, where he was the freestyle coach, earned a gold and two silvers. In the four World Championships during Jones’ tenure, USA placed third in the 2011 World Championships, fifth in 2013, and seventh in 2009. He also led USA to five individual World Champion medals, including two-time World champion Jordan Burroughs. The United States competed in three Freestyle World Cups during the Jones era, placing third in 2012 and 2013, and sixth in 2010. During the Jones staff era, USA won eight Junior World medals, five University World medals and four Cadet World medals. Jones came to USA Wrestling after coaching at the University of Pennsylvania from 2005-07, where he amassed a record of 33-17-1. Following the 2006 campaign that saw an NCAA Champion, two All-Americans, two Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) champions, and a third-place finish at the EIWA Championships, Amateur Wrestling News named Jones the Rookie Head Coach of the Year. Prior to coaching at Penn he served on the coaching staffs at West Virginia, Arizona State, and Bloomsburg University. Jones coached teams that have finished in the NCAA Final Four twice, in the top-10 four times and won six conference team championships. Individually his wrestlers have won six NCAA titles, eight NCAA finalists, 36 individual conference champions, 29 All Americans, 74 NCAA Qualifiers, and 11 wrestlers have competed in the NWCA All Star Meet. Originally from Ann Arbor, Mich., Jones is a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, member of the Arizona State University Hall of Fame, and Michigan Wrestling Hall of Fame. Arizona State University President Michael Crow on Zeke Jones: “I said to Ray, either we’re going to have a wrestling team that’s going to compete for national championships or we’re not going to have a wrestling team. So you need to find the best person in the world to be our coach. Zeke Jones is our coach: Multi-time world champion in wrestling, NCAA champion, ASU graduate; and at the time that Ray hired him, sitting Olympic coach for the United States Olympic Team in wrestling, former coach at the University of Pennsylvania. That is the person; the personage, the kind of character that we are looking for.” ASU Vice President for University Athletics and Athletics Director Ray Anderson on Zeke Jones: “It is important we retain our high-caliber coaching hires and, without a doubt, Coach Jones has made a huge impact in his three years at Ar- izona State. He consistently demands high academic commitment and athletic dedication from our student-athletes and he and his staff worked tirelessly to recruit one of the top-rated recruiting classes in college wrestling history.” JONES’ RECORD AT ASU IN... All Home Duals .................................... 7-3-0 All Road Duals ..................................... 7-5-0 All Neutral Site Duals ........................ 7-6-0 All Pac-12 Duals ................................. 6-4-0 All Home Pac-12 Duals .................... 3-2-0 All Road Pac-12 Duals ...................... 3-2-0 First Dual of the Year ......................... 3-0-0 First Home Dual of the Year ............. 2-0-0 First Road Dual of the Year .............. 2-1-0 First Neutral Dual of the Year .......... 2-0-0 First Pac-12 Dual of the Year .......... 0-2-0 First Home Pac-12 Dual of the Year 1-1-0 First Road Pac-12 Dual of the Year 1-1-0 2016-17 Sun Devil Wrestling Weekly Notes Michigan two weeks ago, the Buckeyes had four individual champions.