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2015-16 Wrestling Roster

Greg Velasco

  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 285
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Union Beach, N.J.
  • Highschool Keyport

Biography

At Rider:
Psychology major...won 14 matches last season, including 10 dual meets…placed sixth in the EWL Championships…won the deciding match with a tie-breaking reversal in Rider’s EWL win at Lock Haven…won 11 matches at heavyweight in 2013-14…went 8-14 in dual meets...began the month of February with four consecutive wins over wrestlers from Duke, Sacred Heart, Drexel and Hofstra…defeated the wrestler from Lock Haven in the EWL Championships…compiled a fall and two major decisions last year…also won 11 matches in 2012-13 as a red-shirt freshman, including seven in dual meets…placed sixth at the 2012-13 Keystone Classic…during his red-shirt 2011-12 season went 6-5 competing unattached…

At Keyport High School:
Three-time District 22 Champion...earned All-America honors after placing third in the States after a 42-1 senior year....two-time Regional Champion...the first 100-win wrestler at Keyport...was a state finalist in track in the shot put...was twice an All-State football player.

Historical Player Information

  • 2011-12Freshman

    6'2" 285 lbs

  • 2012-13Redshirt Freshman

    6'2" 285 lbs

  • 2013-14Redshirt Sophomore

    6'0" 285 lbs

  • 2014-15Redshirt Junior

    6'0" 285 lbs

  • 2015-16Senior

    6'0" 285 lbs