Current UNC wrestler Austin O’Connor and Blair were roommates at Chapel Hill for three years. They keep in contact on a weekly basis as O’Connor looks ahead to what a potential future competing in pro-MMA.
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Behind a plethora of dominating dual wins, the North Carolina wrestling team (5-6, 1-0 ACC) cruised past the Duke Blue Devils (3-6, 0-1 ACC), 37-6, on Friday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
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North Carolina gained an early lead in its first dual against Harvard with wins from Palmer and McNeil. After O’Connor’s pinfall victory in the Brown dual, UNC proved that Brown did not have enough physicality to match up against the Tar Heels.
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The Tar Heels returned a quartet of talented graduate seniors, and the preseason No. 16-ranked team looked to make a push to earn UNC’s first conference crown in over a decade. But the returns of Austin O’Connor — an NCAA individual national champion — and Clay Lautt haven’t equated to immediate success for North Carolina on the mat, as the Tar Heels have dropped six of their first eight dual meets.
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“I don’t think we’ve seen our full potential by any means,” head coach Coleman Scott said. “They’ve just got to keep plugging away and it’ll come.”
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After earning a victory against Campbell to begin the season, the Tar Heels have now been dominated in two matches against premier wrestling programs.
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“Especially this year, we have high expectations for ourselves,” Lautt said. “We want to win the ACC. We want to be in the top five in the country."
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Battling against a top-five team should serve as a litmus test for the Tar Heels. With a number of North Carolina’s returning core pieces still recovering from injury — namely redshirt seniors Auston O’Connor and Zach Sherman — UNC’s youth was put to the test Sunday.
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The UNC wrestling team is finally receiving new practice mats after plans for a new wrestling facility were unfortunately halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019. Head coach Coleman Scott sees the new room as a reward for the program's success.
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After a variety of injuries produced dissatisfying ends to last season, Austin O’Connor, Jaime Hernandez, Zach Sherman and Clay Lautt decided to return for their sixth and final season with the UNC wrestling program.
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In its last meet of conference play, No. 22 UNC wrestling (8-6, 3-2 ACC) fell 25-12 to No. 4 N.C. State (12-1, 5-0 ACC) at Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, N.C. on Friday night.
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UNC wrestling’s five-match winning streak came to an end on Friday night as the team suffered its first loss in the ACC this season to a strong Virginia Tech roster.
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As their high school careers come to an end, the Tenolds are looking forward to beginning their next chapter in Chapel Hill rather than in wrestling-powerhouse-state Iowa, with their sights set on taking UNC wrestling to even greater heights.
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“It was a little ugly,” UNC wrestling head coach Coleman Scott said. “We got pushed around too much.” But the tide turned for North Carolina, and it came by way of wrestlers you’d likely least expect on a night like this — the underclassman.
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The No. 24 North Carolina wrestling team (8-5, 3-0 ACC) sent the seniors out in style, with a 19-12 win over the No. 19 Pittsburgh Panthers (6-5, 1-2 ACC) Friday night at Carmichael Arena.
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As UNC looks to continue progressing up the national rankings following a set of tough defeats to ranked opponents, it will benefit from tough competition like this in the lead-up to a tough finish to its conference schedule.
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“It’s our sport, Friday and Sunday, no matter who you’re wrestling, we expect the same of our guys every time,” head coach Coleman Scott said. “We've got to take it personal. We want to win every time we step foot on the mat.”
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“We won a couple close ones, but you should expect to win those,” head coach Coleman Scott. “To be dominant, you’re gonna have to find ways to win close matches."
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The No. 22 North Carolina wrestling team (5-4, 1-0 ACC) opened its conference season with a 29-6 victory in its dual against rival Duke (6-6, 0-1 ACC) inside Carmichael Arena.
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North Carolina redshirt first-year Marisol Nugent is the first woman ever listed on an ACC varsity wrestling roster. Nugent, who has wrestled from a young age, transferred from Lehigh University and has high aspirations for herself and her sport. “I want to be a world champion,” she said.
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