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Making The List: Logan Stieber
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I’ve had another epiphany.
Basketball has begun – both Men’s and Women’s. Football isn’t quite over for the year – until January 1st anyway. And there are so many names to get to … on all three counts.
But necessity has taken me off course.
This week we shall address the best wrestler ever to don a scarlet and gray uniform.
Logan Stieber, also referred to as Logie Bear, is a complete force to reckon with. Literally anyone who gets in his path is like a deer in the headlights.
Born January 24, 1991 in Monroeville, Ohio he would go onto to become a legend. At Monroeville High School Logan would accumulate five OHSAA State Wrestling Championships (4 of which were individually and 1 would be a team title for Monroeville in 2010). He would lose only once in his entire high school career.
He would move onto The Ohio State University and become one of the most metaled wrestlers in the NCAA’s history.
Come his Senior Year at OSU Logan would become only the fourth wrestler in NCAA history to win four national Championships; joining Pat Smith of Oklahoma State (1990-92, ’94), Cael Sanderson of Iowa State (1999-2002) and Kyle Dake of Cornell (2010-13).
In 2015 he would help bring the National Title to The Ohio State University for the first time in the school’s history.
Logan would have more National Titles, 4, then losses in his collegiate career. His NCAA record ended with a 119-3 mark.
His Awards and Honors are off the chart:
HIGH SCHOOL:
Five-time OHSAA Division III State Wrestling Champion 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011: individual
2010: team (as a member of the Monroeville Eagles).
2008: FILA Junior National Champion
2010: Junior Dan Hodge Trophy winner.
NCAA:
Four-time Big Ten Champion 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015: individual
2015: team (as a member of the Ohio State Buckeyes).
Four-time NCAA Division I National Champion: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015: individual
2015: team (as a member of the Ohio State Buckeyes).
2012: Big Ten Freshman of the Year (wrestling)
2015: Dan Hodge Trophy winner
2015: NCAA Most Dominant Wrestler
2015: National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Most Outstanding Wrestler.
As a senior he would top all of these proud achievements with college’s top wrestling award (A Heisman for Wrestling) – The Hodge Trophy.
Logan collected 38 first-place votes from 44 committee members comprised of past Hodge winners, select members of national wrestling organizations and media, retired coaches from around the country and fan voting. The fans put their vote for him at 55 percent.
OSU Coach Tom Ryan said Stieber’s winning the Hodge Trophy was the “perfect” ending to the Buckeyes’ historic season.
All wrestling fans understand the importance of this award, just as Football zealots comprehend the Heisman. The award, presented annually since 1994, is named after Dan Hodge, a three-time NCAA champion from the University of Oklahoma from 1955-57 who did not allow a takedown in his career and pinned 36 of 46 opponents.
Stieber is the first Ohio State wrestler to win the Hodge award. He finished second to David Taylor of Penn State last season and fourth to Dake in 2013.
Logan now has eyes on the 2016 Olympics in Rio. His schedule is completely full, his “want” is in overdrive and he is absolutely worth keeping an eye on. Check him out on his own site:
http://www.loganstieber.com/about.html
Logan Stieber unquestionably deserves to be included in Making the List. He is a Buckeye that is completely unheralded to “most” anyone in NCAA history, and to anyone period in the current NCAA of today. He undoubtedly is on a march for Rio. And come this summer we will all be standing as we begin to sing Carmen, Ohio at the metal ceremony for the 141 lb. weight class.
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jcollingsworth via our good friends at Buckeye Battle Cry
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here
I’ve had another epiphany.
Basketball has begun – both Men’s and Women’s. Football isn’t quite over for the year – until January 1st anyway. And there are so many names to get to … on all three counts.
But necessity has taken me off course.
This week we shall address the best wrestler ever to don a scarlet and gray uniform.
Logan Stieber, also referred to as Logie Bear, is a complete force to reckon with. Literally anyone who gets in his path is like a deer in the headlights.
Born January 24, 1991 in Monroeville, Ohio he would go onto to become a legend. At Monroeville High School Logan would accumulate five OHSAA State Wrestling Championships (4 of which were individually and 1 would be a team title for Monroeville in 2010). He would lose only once in his entire high school career.
He would move onto The Ohio State University and become one of the most metaled wrestlers in the NCAA’s history.
Come his Senior Year at OSU Logan would become only the fourth wrestler in NCAA history to win four national Championships; joining Pat Smith of Oklahoma State (1990-92, ’94), Cael Sanderson of Iowa State (1999-2002) and Kyle Dake of Cornell (2010-13).
In 2015 he would help bring the National Title to The Ohio State University for the first time in the school’s history.
Logan would have more National Titles, 4, then losses in his collegiate career. His NCAA record ended with a 119-3 mark.
His Awards and Honors are off the chart:
HIGH SCHOOL:
Five-time OHSAA Division III State Wrestling Champion 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011: individual
2010: team (as a member of the Monroeville Eagles).
2008: FILA Junior National Champion
2010: Junior Dan Hodge Trophy winner.
NCAA:
Four-time Big Ten Champion 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015: individual
2015: team (as a member of the Ohio State Buckeyes).
Four-time NCAA Division I National Champion: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015: individual
2015: team (as a member of the Ohio State Buckeyes).
2012: Big Ten Freshman of the Year (wrestling)
2015: Dan Hodge Trophy winner
2015: NCAA Most Dominant Wrestler
2015: National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Most Outstanding Wrestler.
As a senior he would top all of these proud achievements with college’s top wrestling award (A Heisman for Wrestling) – The Hodge Trophy.
Logan collected 38 first-place votes from 44 committee members comprised of past Hodge winners, select members of national wrestling organizations and media, retired coaches from around the country and fan voting. The fans put their vote for him at 55 percent.
OSU Coach Tom Ryan said Stieber’s winning the Hodge Trophy was the “perfect” ending to the Buckeyes’ historic season.
All wrestling fans understand the importance of this award, just as Football zealots comprehend the Heisman. The award, presented annually since 1994, is named after Dan Hodge, a three-time NCAA champion from the University of Oklahoma from 1955-57 who did not allow a takedown in his career and pinned 36 of 46 opponents.
Stieber is the first Ohio State wrestler to win the Hodge award. He finished second to David Taylor of Penn State last season and fourth to Dake in 2013.
Logan now has eyes on the 2016 Olympics in Rio. His schedule is completely full, his “want” is in overdrive and he is absolutely worth keeping an eye on. Check him out on his own site:
http://www.loganstieber.com/about.html
Logan Stieber unquestionably deserves to be included in Making the List. He is a Buckeye that is completely unheralded to “most” anyone in NCAA history, and to anyone period in the current NCAA of today. He undoubtedly is on a march for Rio. And come this summer we will all be standing as we begin to sing Carmen, Ohio at the metal ceremony for the 141 lb. weight class.
The post Making The List: Logan Stieber appeared first on The Buckeye Battle Cry: Ohio State News and Commentary.
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