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2023-24 Wrestling Roster

Joe McGinty

Joe McGinty

  • Position:
    157
  • Height:
    5-8
  • Weight:
    157
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Monroe, NY
  • High School:
    Monroe-Woodbury

Summary

Biography

2022-23: EIWA Academic Achievement Award recipient…Fall 2022 Hofstra Athletic Director Scholars Academic Honor Roll selection...Competed in 13 matches...Posted a 5-8 record...Was 5-6 in EIWA duals...Did not Make season debut until the end of December due to injury.

2021-22: NWCA Scholar All-American…EIWA Academic Achievement Award recipient…Fall 2021 Hofstra Athletic Director Scholars Academic Honor Roll...Fall 2021 Hofstra Dean's List...Won nine matches as the starter at 157 pounds…Won five matches in dual meets and three matches against EIWA opponents…Won five matches by decision…Earned four wins by fall.

2020-21: NWCA Scholar All-American…Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 Hofstra Athletic Director Scholars Academic Honor Roll…Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 Hofstra Dean’s List...Hofstra’s Best Newcomer/Freshman Award recipient.…Competed at 157 pounds and went 4-1 in his first year of collegiate wrestling…Ended the season on a four-match winning-streak…Won three matches by decision and one by fall.

High School: Wrestled for four years at Monroe-Woodbury High School in Central Valley, New York…Finished second in the 160-pound weight class at the 2020 NYSPHSAA Intersectional Wrestling Championships and was a Section IX champion after going 46-4 as a senior…Finished fourth at the 2019 NYSPHSAA Intersectional Wrestling Championships and was a Section IX champion after going 45-5 as a junior…Won the Section IX team title as a freshman…Went 155-23 over four years for the Crusaders…A four-time honor roll student and an Academic All-American all four years of high school…

Personal: Has one sibling…Father, James, wrestled for four years at Virginia Commonwealth University…Lists Walter Payton and Jordan Burrows as his favorite athletes…Plans to become an anesthesiologist upon graduation…Health science major.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21Freshman

    160
    5'8" 160 lbs
  • 2021-22Freshman

    157
    5'8" 157 lbs
  • 2022-23Junior

    157
    5'8" 157 lbs
  • 2023-24Senior

    157
    5'8" 157 lbs