Wrestling
Lehigh's wrestling team competes in the EIWA (The Patriot League does not sponsor wrestling). Lehigh has a strong tradition in wrestling, and often wins the league and places in the top 10 at the NCAA National Championships. Lehigh is considered one of the best private schools in the country for wrestling, having had 26 national NCAA individual champions and 121 All-Americans. Its last national champion was Zach Rey.
Lehigh alumni coach wrestling at many institutions, including Jason Kutz (1998), head wrestling coach at East Stroudsburg University; Chris Ayres (1999), head wrestling coach at Princeton University; Cory Cooperman (2006), assistant wrestling coach at Rutgers University; Troy Letters (2006), and Derek Zinck (2006), assistant wrestling coaches at Princeton University.
In 2006, the wrestling team marked its fifth straight EIWA championship. The current head coach is Pat Santoro and the team's home in Grace Hall is often referred to as "The Snakepit".
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Famous quotes containing the word wrestling:
“There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“We laugh at him who steps out of his room at the very moment when the sun steps out, and says: “I will the sun to rise”; and at him who cannot stop the wheel, and says: “I will it to roll”; and at him who is taken down in a wrestling match, and says: “I lie here, but I will that I lie here!” And yet, all laughter aside, do we ever do anything other than one of these three things when we use the expression, “I will”?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)