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2024-25 Wrestling Roster

Meyer Shapiro

  • Position 157
  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Woodbine, Md.
  • High School Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School

Biography

2024-25 | SOPHOMORE SEASON
Finished fifth at the NCAA Championships at 157 pounds to claim his second consecutive All-American honor… went 4-2 at the tournament… First Team All-Ivy… Ivy League Champion at 157… finished the 15-3 with only one loss in the regular season coming from a medical forfeit at the beginning of the season… 5-0 in Ivy duals.

2023-24 | FRESHMAN SEASON
Earned All-American status at the NCAA Championships… beat Stanford's Daniel Cardenas in the third-place match…had lost twice to Cardenas before that match... went 6-1 at the tournament… earned bonus points for the Big Red with five of those six wins… led the team with 19 bonus-point wins… won EIWA Title… earned unanimous first-team All-Ivy honors… finished 27-3 overall and 14-0 in duals… won 23 of 24 matches to end the season… had a 19-match win streak entering NCAAs, the longest by a Cornell wrestler in the 2024 season... tied the school single-season record with 10 wins by tech fall... won U20 World Championship at 70kg before the season 

PRIOR TO CORNELL: Ranked as the nation's top recruit in the nation by Intermat.com ... Was 18-0 with 14 wins by fall as a senior at Wyoming Seminary Prep, capturing a state and prep national title at 145 pounds ... claimed a U20 national title at 70kg in 2023 ... won a cadet world title in 2021 in Budapest, Hungary at 65kg ... began his career wrestling at Bullis HS, finishing as state champion in Maryland as a freshman.

Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24Freshman

    157
    157 lbs
  • 2024-25Sophomore

    157
    157 lbs