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CSU Pueblo Athletics Hall of Fame

2013 - Wrestling

1985 NAIA National Runner-Up Wrestling Team

  • Class
  • Induction
    2013
  • Sport(s)
    Wrestling
1985 National Runner-Up Wrestling Team (Outstanding Team): The second team in school history to be national runners-up, the 1985 wrestling team was made all the more remarkable when you consider that the program was in just its third season of competition.  Led by two national champions (and the first national champions in the history of the program), 126-pounder Bryan Hawkins and 177-pounder, Mike Guenther, the team boasted five RMAC champions and five All-Americans.  The letterwinners from the team included Hawkins, Guenther, Chopper Shrull, Mike Fitzgerald, Steve Giadone, Art Aranda, Curt Topping, Todd Carey, Ramon Esquilen, Eric Lujan, Rich Giadone, Troy Carey, Steve Ross, Joe Browne, Matt Linnebur, Willie Krantz, and Ed Reinert.  The team was coached by current hall-of-famer, Doug Moses.
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