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NCAA HISTORY: ALL AMERICANS & NATIONAL CHAMPIONS FROM NATIONAL PREP SCHOOLS

NCAA All-Americans from National Prep Programs (By Team)*

NCAA Champions from National Prep Programs*

NCAA All-Americans from National Prep Wrestling Championships Schools

Blair Academy     66
St. Benedict's Prep     10
The Hill School     7
Wyoming Seminary     7
Mt.St. Joseph's     6
Germantown Academy     5
The Haverford School     5
McDonogh     5
Good Counsel     4
St. Benedict's Prep & Blair Academy     4
St. Christopher's     4
Academy of the New Church     3
Bullis & Blair Academy     3
Episcopal Academy (PA)     3
Milton Hershey     3
St. Andrew's     3
DeMatha Catholic     2
The Kiski School     2
Malvern Prep     2
Model Secondary School    2
Peddie School     2
Phillips Exeter    2
Shady Side Academy    2
Trinity Christian (TX) & Wyoming Seminary    2
Bryn Athyn (PA)    1
Archbishop Carroll    1
Bishop Lynch (TX)    1
Bullis     1
Cheshire     1

Georgetown Prep     1
Gilman School     1
Mt.St. Joseph's & Blair Academy    1
Paul VI & Blair Academy    1
Walker School (GA)    1

Blair Academy- NJ (17)
Ed Ruth (Penn State) 3X Champion
Mark Lieberman (Lehigh) 2X Champion
Pat Santoro (Pittsburgh) 2x Champion
Steve Mocco (Oklahoma State/Iowa) 2X Champion
Mark Perry (Iowa) 2X Champion
Kellen Russell (Michigan) 2X Champion
Mike Lieberman (Lehigh)
Kelly Ward (Iowa State) 
Rico Chiapparelli (Iowa) 
Zack Esposito (Oklahoma State) 

McDonogh- MD (1)
Myles Martin (Ohio State) 

Our Lady of Good Counsel- MD (3)
Kyle Snyder (Ohio State) 3X Champion

St. Benedict's Prep- NJ (3)

Mike Caruso (Lehigh) 3X Champion

 

Hill School- PA (2)

Hud Sampson (Penn State) 

Andy Fitch (Yale) 

Academy of the New Church- PA (1)

Kirk Pendleton (Lehigh)  

St. Andrews- TN (1)

Bill Harlow (Oklahoma State) 

 

* Please help us complete this list. If you know of former National Prep champions who went on to win an NCAA title, please click here to email the information to the webmaster. Please include the wrestler's name, their National Prep school and NCAA school.
 

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Mike Caruso, a St. Benedict's (NJ) alum, won three NCAA titles at Lehigh University from 1965-1967.

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Kellen Russell won two NCAA titles (2011 & 2012) while competing for the University of Michigan.

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Two-time NCAA Champion Steve Mocco (Iowa/Oklahoma State) represented the USA in the 2008 Olympic Games.

Name
Warren Taylor
Hud Samson
Andrew Kaul
Werner Seel
John Pepe
Max Pearson
Kirk Pendleton
Bill Harlow
John Gladish
Mike Caruso
Bob Fehrs
Chris Stowell
Dave Cunningham
Mike Lieberman
Mark Lieberman
Kelly Ward
Mike Sickles
Colin Kilrain
Jim Reilly
Bobby Weaver
Wade Hughes
Rico Chiapparelli
Pat Santoro
Lenny Bernstein
Todd Silvestri
Toselli Silvestri
Tucker McLean
Brandon Totten
Anton Atterbury
Eric Fajerman
Willie Carpenter
Chris Ayres
Jason Silverstein
Todd Beckerman
Sean Gray
Quinn Foster
Steve Mocco
Chris Rodrigues
Tom Prairie
Zack Esposito
Foley Dowd
Cory Cooperman
Kurt Backes
Mark Perry
Matt Storniolo
Matt Palmer
Zach Stevens
Mike Faust
Tim Bohlman
David Hoffman
Matt Stolpinski
Max Meltzer
Ryan Herwig
Hudson Taylor
Mack Lewnes
Munkhbaatar Baatar
Myanganbayar Batsukh
Chris Henrich
Kevin Donahue
Kellan Russell
Ed Ruth
Michael McMullan 
Evan Henderson 
Michael Evans 
Terrance Jean-Jacques 
Kyle Snyder
Chris Villalonga 
Max Huntley 
Myles Martin 
Jacob Goodwin 
Joey McKenna
Paul Triandafilou 

Logan Meister

Jack Mueller
Matthew Kolodzik
Jordan Kutler

Chris Canon
Zach Sherman
Jackson Turley
Michael Beard

Beau Bartlett

Shayne Van Ness

Lachlan McNeil

Luke Kowalski

College
Princeton
Penn State
Michigan
Lehigh
Penn State
Michigan
Lehigh
Oklahoma State
Lehigh
Lehigh
Michigan
Michigan
Northern Iowa
Lehigh
Lehigh
Iowa State
Montclair State
Lehigh
Lehigh
Lehigh
George Washington
Iowa
Pittsburgh
North Carolina
Gallaudet
Gallaudet
Trinity
Delaware Valley
College of New Jersey
Delaware Valley
Brown
Lehigh
Purdue
Nebraska
Virginia Tech
Arizona State
Iowa/Oklahoma State
North Carolina
Williams
Oklahoma State
Michigan
Lehigh
Iowa State
Iowa
Oklahoma
Columbia
Minnesota State-Mankato
Virginia Tech
York (PA)
Virginia Tech
Nacy
Harvard
Delaware Valley
Maryland
Cornell
St. John's
St. John's
Virginia
Cornell Iowa
Michigan
Penn State
Northwestern 
North Carolina
Iowa
Rhode Island College
Ohio State
Cornell 
Michigan
Ohio State
Notre Dame (OH)
Stanford/Ohio State
Gettysburg

Ferrum
Virginia
Princeton
Lehigh

Northwestern
North Carolina
Rutgers
Penn State

Penn State

Penn State

North Carolina

Gettysburg

Division
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
II
I
I
I
III
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
III
III
III
III
III
III
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
III
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
II
I
III
I
I
I
III
I
I
III
III
I
III
I
I
I
I
I
III
I
I
I
I
II
I
III

III
I
I
I

I

I

I

I

I

I

I

III

Years (Places)
1942 (4th)
1953 (1st)
1954 (4th), 1955 (2nd)
1955 (2nd)
1956 (3rd), 1957 (2nd)
1957 (2nd), 1958 (2nd)
1961 (2nd), 1962 (2nd), 1963 (1st)
1964 (2nd), 1965 (2nd), 1966 (1st)
1964 (6th)
1965 (1st), 1966 (1st), 1967 (1st)
1965 (2nd), 1966 (2nd), 1967 (2nd)
1965 (6th)
1974 (6th), 1975 (2nd), 1976 (5th)
1975 (1st), 1976 (3rd)
1977 (2nd, 1978 (1st), 1979 (1st)
1977 (2nd), 1978 (2nd), 1979 (1st)
1978 (6th), 1979 (3rd)
1980 (3rd), 1981 (3rd), 1982 (3rd)
1980 (8th), 1981 (7th)
1982 (3rd)
1985 (3rd)
1985 (5th), 1986 (4th), 1987 (1st)
1986 (6th), 1987 (2nd), 1988 (1st), 1989 (1st)
1987 (4th)
1989 (8th)
1989 (8th)
1993 (5th), 1994 (5th), 1995 (3rd)
1995 (1st), 1996 (1st)
1995 (2nd), 1997 (5th)
1995 (7th)
1996 (6th)
1999 (6th)
1999 (8th)
2000 (5th), 2001 (4th)
2000 (7th), 2001 (6th)
2000 (8th)
2002 (2nd), 2003 (1st), 2005 (1st), 2006 (2nd)
2002 (8th)
2003 (3rd), 2004 (4th), 2005 (2nd)
2004 (2nd), 2005 (1st), 2006 (3rd)
2004 (6th)
2004 (7th), 2005 (3rd), 2006 (3rd)
2004 (7th), 2007 (2nd)
2005 (2nd), 2006 (3rd), 2007 (1st), 2008 (1st)
2005 (7th), 2006 (4th)
2005 (8th), 2007 (8th)
2006 (4th)
2006 (5th)
2006 (6th), 2007 (7th)
2006 (8th)
2007 (4th), 2008 (4th)
2007 (8th)
2008 (3rd)
2008 (3rd), 2009 (3rd), 2010 (4th)
2008 (4th), 2010 (2nd), 2011 (4th)
2008 (7th)
2009 (1st), 2010 (1st), 2011 (1st)
2009 (7th), 2010 (3rd), 2011 (6th)
2009 (7th), 2010 (4th), 2011 (4th)
2009 (7th), 2011 (1st), 2012 (1st)
2011 (3rd), 2012 (1st), 2013 (1st) 2014 (1st)
2012 (3rd), 2013 (2nd), 2014 (3rd), 2015 (3rd)
2013 (6th), 2014 (4th)
2013 (6th), 2014 (6th), 2015 (6th)
2015 (2nd)
2015 (2nd), 2016 (1st), 2017 (1st), 2018 (1st)
2015 (6th)
2015 (8th)
2016 (1st), 2017 (5th), 2018 2nd, (2019) 3rd
2016 (3rd)
2016 (3rd), 2018 (3rd), 2019 (2nd)
2016 (5th)

2016 (6th)
2017 (6th), 2019 (2nd)
2017 (7th), 2018 (3rd), 2019 (5th)
2018 (6th), 2019 (7th)

2021 (7th), 2022, (7th)
2021 (7th)
2021 (8th)
2021 (7th)

2023 (3rd)

2023 (3rd)

2023 (4th)

2023 (7th)

Prep School
Blair Academy
Hill School
Hill School
Cheshire
Wyoming Seminary
Hill School
Academy of the New Church
St. Andrew's
Bryn Athyn 
St. Benedict's Prep
Milton Hershey
Hill School
Episcopal Academy (PA)
Shady Side Academy
Blair Academy
Blair Academy
Blair Academy
Blair Academy
Germantown Academy
Blair Academy
Archbishop Carroll
Mt. St. Joseph's/Blair Academy
Blair Academy
Bullis
Model Secondary School
Model Secondary School
Haverford School
Blair Academy
Blair Academy
Peddie
Blair Academy
Blair Academy
Blair Academy
DeMatha Catholic
Blair Academy
Paul VI/ Blair Academy
St. Benedict's Prep/ Blair Academy
Walker School (GA)
Blair Academy
Blair Academy
Peddie
Blair Academy
Blair Academy
Blair Academy
Haverford School
Bullis/Blair Academy
Blair Academy
Gilman
Mt. St. Joseph's
Hill School
Phillips Exeter
Bullis/Blair Academy
Mt. St. Joseph's
Blair Academy
Mt. St. Joseph's
St. Benedict's
St. Benedict's
Germantown Academy
St. Christopher's 
Blair Academy
Blair Academy
Wyoming Seminary
Kiski School
Blair Academy
Wyoming Seminary
Good Counsel
Blair Academy
Blair Academy
McDonogh
Bishop Lynch (TX)
Blair Academy
Georgetown Prep

McDonogh
Trinity Christian/Wyoming Seminary
Blair Academy
Blair Academy

Blair Academy

Blair Academy

St. Christopher's

Malvern Prep

Wyoming Seminary

Blair Academy

Wyoming Seminary

St. John's College HS

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2016 Olympic Gold Medalist Kyle Snyder won three NCAA titles 2016-2018 for Ohio State.

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