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2024-25 Wrestling Roster

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Maximus Hale

  • Position 184
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown West Chester, Pa.
  • Highschool Downingtown West

Biography

Career Honors
2025: NCAA Qualifier
2025: Ivy League Championships, second place
2025: Second Team All-Ivy
2024: NCAA Qualifier
2023: EIWA Qualifier
2023: First Team All-Ivy

2024-25:
Went 17-9 on the season … Posted a 7-5 dual record and 3-2 Ivy League record … Went 3-0 at the Elite Duals (1/10-11), picking up wins over Ohio’s Jeremy Olszko (11-3), Drexel’s Giuseppe Hoose (0:46), and Wyoming’s Quayin Short (8-0) … Picked up Ivy League victories over Harvard’s (2/2) Matt Walsh (11-2), Brown’s (11/2) Drew Reall (4-3, SV), and Princeton’s (2/16) #29 Kole Mulhauser (4-3) … Runner-up at 184 at the 2025 Ivy League Championships (3/9) to earn an automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Championships … Beat Missouri’s #31 Colton Hawks (7-2) in the first consolation round at the 2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships (3/20-22) to close out his Penn career.

2023-24: Posted a 21-10 overall record … Went 9-2 in duals … Picked up huge wins over duals wins over Iowa’s (12/1) Aiden Riggens (1:55), Rutgers’ (1/6) #19 Brian Soldano (4-2), and Columbia’s (1/28) #19 Aaron Ayzerov (9-4) … Placed third at Keystone Classic (11/19), Utah Valley’s Armstrong in the third place bout … Captured second place at the Midlands Championships (12/29-30), highlighted by a win over F&M’s #14 James Conway in the 184 semifinals (4-2) … Placed eighth at the EIWA Championships (3/8-9) to help secure an at-large bid to the NCAA Championships in Kansas City (3/21-22).

2022-23 (184): Unanimously named to the All-Ivy first team with a 5-0 record against Ivy competition … Posted a 13-14 overall record, 7-6 in duals, and 6-3 against EIWA opponents …  Earned a first period pin in Penn's win over Brown (1/27) as he earned the fall over the Bears' Nicholas Olivieri … Despite a slow start in dual meets, earned his first dual win at Stanford (1/15), winning by an 8-2 decision over Brook Byers … Closed out the regular season with #24 ranking from Wrestlestat.

2021-22: Posted a 7-3 overall record … Competed at the Journeymen Collegiate Classic (11/14), the Keystone Classic (11/21), the Mat Town Open II (1/29) and the Messiah Open (2/5) … Placed first at the Messiah Open at 184 pounds.

2020-21: All 2020-21 Ivy League winter sports were canceled on November 12 due to a nationwide outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19.

High School: Lettered four years in wrestling … Captained team as a senior … Three-time medalist at the Pennsylvania State Championships (2018-20) … Three-time regional champion (2018-20) … Three-time section champion (2018-20) … Member Pennsylvania Junior National Freestyle Team
 
Personal: Son of Jennifer and Roman Hale … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21Freshman

    184
  • 2021-22Sophomore

    184
  • 2022-23Junior

    184
  • 2023-24Junior

    184
  • 2024-25Senior

    184