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...performance. Tri-captain Bode Ogunwole and freshman J.P. O’Connor led the team with three victories each, but their performances were not enough to give Harvard its first dual match victory of the season. Harvard first faced Northern Colorado, losing 26-16, and then fell to Wisconsin, 39-9, and Boise State, 28-18. “I think we’re still adjusting to some of strategies that we’ve been working on,” Ogunwole said. “The coaches are just trying to show us different techniques to try during...
...season, the team had already blended veteran dominance with its considerable freshman talent in several tournament successes. Yesterday, the Crimson struggled through a sluggish performance in the nation’s capital. “I don’t think we wrestled stupid,” tri-captain Max Meltzer said. “We just weren’t hungry and we were not wrestling well in general.” Specifically, Crimson head coach Jay Weiss pointed to Harvard’s inadequate number of take-downs as a measure of the team’s lack...
...try to lead by example a lot, but I try to be encouraging and supportive to other guys,” Ogunwole said. “If I can show somebody something he’s doing wrong or could do a better way, I try to speak up and let them know.”Even to freshmen who are still acclimatizing to the expectations required of a college wrestler, Ogunwole makes every effort to help them connect with the team.“With the young guys, the captains and I try to encourage them and make them...
Some successes come as a surprise, but others are expected. At the NCAA Wrestling Championships, freshman Andrew Flanagan provided the surprise, and junior tri-captain Bode Ogunwole’s All-American performance came as a sure thing. Ogunwole, as a result of a 4-0 Friday run through the tournament’s consolation bracket, earned a sixth-place showing, giving him All-America status for the year. He is only the 17th Harvard All-American in the wrestling program’s history. “I feel pretty happy to make All-American,” Ogunwole...
...strong showing by the Harvard wrestling team this weekend at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) Championships in Bethlehem, Pa. was an encouraging sign for the Crimson as it prepared for the NCAA Championships in two weeks.On Sunday, junior tri-captain Bode Ogunwole and freshman Andrew Flanagan both finished first in their weight classes—the latter in a bizarre sequence in the finals—while junior tri-captain Max Meltzer and junior Robbie Preston both finished second after losing in the finals.After Saturday’s competition, all four wrestlers clinched berths in the NCAA Championships, which...