7/11/06- After closing out his first season at UMass, coach Tim Morris has now set his eyes on a great recruit class for the up coming 2006-2007 season. "' I'm not going to beat around the bush our team is really lacking in the lower weight classes, we really need to step it up and get some good light wrestlers in the room, we cant lose key matches because we have no one to wrestle at the lower weights. this is a tuff tuff sport and not for everyone and that is understandable, but I am trying to put a well developed team together to wrestler at the next level. we are going to need to recruit very hard for the up coming years if we want to be succesful" Tim Morris. Recruiting has already started and some signing of fresh up coming talent for the 2006-2007 season including .
Ben Carver 1x State Champ from Sharon MA to wrestle at the 133 pound weight class
Kriag Hensgst 3x State Champ from Oakham MA to wrestle at the 141 weight class,
David Bourgeois State Placer and ranked 4th in state from Woburn MA to wrestle at 133,
Matt Clement State Champ from Pittsfield MA to wrestle at 157,
Taylor Powers 3rd in NY Sectionals Cooperstown NY to wrestle at 174
Mo Osman State Champ from Rocky Hill CT and Endinboro wrestling Transfer to wrestle at 174
Matt Faucher Sectional Placer from North Andover MA to wrestle at 174
with these new in coming wrestling recruit the team should be assured for success. also the team is returning many of their starters including
Josh Wolf at 133
Mike Cicchese at 141
Nick Muzerall at 149
A.J. Masselli at 156
Chris Cannizzaro at 165
Mitchell Barish at 174
Kevin Hanlon at 184
Conor Sheridan at 197
UMass Wrestling has it's annual season opener 11/08/2006 @ WNEC
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