Biography
Career Honors
2023: NCAA Qualifier
2023: EIWA Third Place
2023: Academic All-Ivy Team
2023: Second Team All-Ivy
2022: Second Team All-Ivy
2020: NCAA Championships Qualifier (141)
2020: Unanimous First-Team All-Ivy
2020:Â EIWA Championships Fourth Place
2019: Keystone Classic Champion
2019:Â EIWA Championships Sixth Place
2019: Honorable Mention All-Ivy
2018: Keystone Classic Fourth Place
2022-23 (149): Moved down a weight class for the 2022-23 season and it proved to be a smart move as he became a three-time NCAA qualifier with an at-large bid and took third place at the EIWA Championships … Earned the fourth All-Ivy honors of his career … Went 22-7 overall and was 7-4 in dual meet action … Posted a 5-1 record against EIWA competition and was 2-1 in Ivy duals … Earned Ivy wins against Columbia and Princeton … Began his senior campaign with a bang as he took home the Hammer Award, winning the title at 149 pounds at the Journeymen Collegiate Classic (11/13) … Opened his dual meet season with a few tough matches, as two of his first three dual bouts were against top-10 ranked opponents from Iowa (11/26) and Wisconsin (12/4) ... Earned his first dual win of the season, against Rutgers' Anthony White, with a 7-2 decision … Closed out his regular season with a pair of dual wins over Princeton's Marshall Keller (2/10) and Drexel's Dominic Findora (2/12), including a major decision over Findora … Was ranked nationally at the end of the regular season, #11 by FloWrestling, #12 by the NCAA Coaches' Panel and Intermat, #13 by Amateur Wrestling News, Wrestlestat, The Open Mat, and Wrestling Insider Newsmag … Academic All-Ivy.
2021-22: Named Second-team All-Ivy … Went 17-7 overall and was 7-2 in dual meets …  Posted a 6-1 record against EIWA competition and went 3-1 in Ivy duals … Picked up wins against #2 Penn State (12/3), Columbia (1/23), Harvard (1/28), #11 Cornell (2/6), LIU (2/6), Drexel (2/13), and American (2/20) … Placed second at the Keystone Classic (11/21) …  Placed third at the Journeymen Collegiate Classic (11/14) … Took fifth place at the EIWA Championships (3/5-6) … Opened his dual meet season with a win over #2 Penn State's Terrell Barraclough (4-2) ... In his season debut, earned a huge victory over Lehigh’s returning All-American, Josh Humphreys (9-8), at the Journeymen Collegiate Classic … Closed out the regular season ranked in four rankings: Intermat (#19), Wrestlestat (#19), FloWrestling (#21), and the NCAA Coaches' Panel (#23) … Yielded just six points in dual meets.Â
2020-21: All 2020-21 Ivy League winter sports were canceled on November 12 due to a nationwide outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19.
2019-20: NCAA Championships qualifier (141 pounds) … Unanimous first-team All-Ivy selection … Placed fourth at the EIWA Championships (3/6-7) … Placed first at the Keystone Classic (11/24) … Led the team with a 30-7 record … Wrestled in 13 of Penn’s 15 duals and posted a 12-1 record … Broke off a 17-match unbeaten streak from Jan. 4 – March 6 … Finished the season 20-2 against EIWA wrestlers … Went a perfect 5-0 in Ivy duals … Had three wins over ranked opponents … Led the team with 102 team points … Led the team with 89 takedowns … Ranked second on the team with three tech falls … Ranked second on the team with six major decisions.
2018-19: Honorable Mention All-Ivy … Finished sixth at EIWA Championships … Finished fourth at Keystone Classic … Posted 15-16 overall record … Went 7-7 in dual meets … Went 1-2 at MSU Open (11/3) … Went 2-2 at Keystone Classic (11/19) to finish fourth … Defeated Maryland’s Orion Anderson, 12-2, in dual meet (12/2) … Went 2-2 at Midlands (12/29-30) … Went 3-3 at EIWA Championships (3/8-9) to finish sixth … Defeated Harvard’s Lukus Stricker, 2-1, at EIWAs … Defeated Princeton’s Jonathan Gomez , 5-3 (SV) at EIWAs … Defeated Navy’s Casey Cobb, 3-2, at EIWAs.
High School: 2017 Pennsylvania AAA state champion at 106 pounds … Fifth at Powerade in 2017-18 season … Finished 2016-17 season with a 45-2 record … Won PIAA Sectional, District and Regional titles on his way to state championship … 2016 PIAA Sectional and District champion … Two-time Chesmont champion (2016, 2017) … PA Junior National Freestyle Team member … Served as team captain … National Honor Society member … Distinguished Honor Roll student.
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Personal: Son of Maureen and Joe Zapf … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.