Four members of the UW-Whitewater wrestling team earn National Wrestling Coaches Association Division III Scholar All-America honors for the 2009-2010 season. Seniors
Kyle Wachholder (Salem/Westosha Central),
Austin Bautista (Des Plaines, IL/Maine East) and
Jon Schmidt (Menomonee Falls/Hartford) were joined by sophomore
Corey Schmidt (Homewood, IL/Homewood Flossmoor).
To qualify for NWCA III Scholar All-America honors a student athlete must finish in the top four of their conference or regional qualifying tournament or won two-thirds of his matches, must have wrestled in at least half of his team's meets during the season, and must have a cumulative (or two most recent semesters) grade point average of at least 3.2 on a 4.0 scale.
Wachholder is a health and human performance major. He repeated the NWCA academic honor he earned last year. He went 24-13 at 133 pounds this season.
Bautista, like Wachholder, also earned the academic honor last season. UW-W's career record holder for wins, Bautista earned All-America honors on the mat three times by placing in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Championship as a sophomore, junior and senior at 141 pounds. He is a special education major who compiled a 36-7 mark as a senior.
Jon Schmidt (Menomonee Falls/Hartford), a health and human performance major, wrestled at 285 pounds for UW-W. He placed fifth in the NCAA III championship to earn All-America honors, finishing the season 14-7.
Corey Schmidt (Homewood, IL/Homewood Flossmoor), an operations management major, went 20-19 wrestling at both 157 and 165 for UW-W.
UW-Whitewater has had team members earn the NWCA Scholar All-America recognition nine times in the last two years. That success is paired with five NCAA III All-America honors in the same span.
The Warhawks went 10-6 in dual meets in 2009-2010. UW-W was ranked twenty-first in the final poll pre-NCAA tournament poll. The Warhawks tied for twenty-third place in the national tournament.
For additional information:
Tim Fader, UW-W wrestling coach
