Wrestling Club

Invest in the future of Monmouth University Wrestling!

The Monmouth University wrestling team needs your help to continue elevating its performance. As a club sport, the wrestling team relies on the generosity of its donors in order to operate and excel. Donor support provides critical funding for registration fees, travel costs, practice gear, official match apparel, costs for referees, trainers, and coaches, and so much more.

Our Hawks have been successful on the mat and in the classroom! Last year, the wrestling team finished with a 6 - 6 record, which included the team's first-ever dual meet victory. Academically, our cumulative team GPA is a 3.195 with two of our wrestlers earning a 4.0 GPA last spring! In addition, three of our wrestlers qualified for the national tournament in Louisiana and our team captain John Dooley repeated as conference champion. And two of our wrestlers were awarded Academic All-American honors by the National Wrestling Coaches Association. The ability to pay the costs related to hosting home matches in the Student Center, the cost of traveling to the conference and national tournaments, the end of season banquet to celebrate our wrestlers' individual and team successes–all of these were made possible thanks to donor support. Please help us keep the momentum high for the 2025-2026 season!

Stretch Goals

The wrestling team competes in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association's (NCWA) Mideast Conference (MEC) and we typically have two or three wrestlers that qualify for the national NCWA tournament at the end of the season. The MEC includes wrestling clubs from schools like Montclair, Rutgers, Rowan, University of Maryland, Slippery Rock, Temple, West Chester, and more. If we achieve our $15,000 goal, then we will be able to afford competing against away teams in the MEC including travel, lodging, and food costs.

Stretch Goal #1: $20,000 - National Ambition

If we can raise $20,000, then we will have the funds necessary to send a few of our wrestlers and coaches to the national NCWA tournament. These costs include airfare, lodging, food, local travel costs, and registration fees for the tournament.

Stretch Goal #2: $25,000 - Upgraded Apparel

If we can raise $25,000, then we will have the funds to provide alternate, tournament singlets for the wrestlers. In addition, we will be able to provide official warm-up suits for each wrestler and two sets of official practice shirts and shorts for the team. We will also be able to provide Monmouth University-branded head gear to the wrestlers that need it.

Stretch Goal #3: $30,000 - Wall Mats

If we can raise $30,000, then we will have the funds necessary to continue making our wrestling room in the basement of Cedar Hall safe for our wrestlers. Today, the room is outfitted with an old elementary school wrestling mat that we cut up and used for floor and wall mats. We received a grant from the SGA to begin buying and installing official wall mats for the wrestling room, but we need to raise more funds to fully outfit the room with wall mats. These mats will not only help protect our wrestlers, they will also give the room a more professional look so that our team can practice in an environment that is safe, but also inspires a competitive spirit.

Stretch Goal #4: $40,000 - Wrestling Room Improvements

If we can raise $40,000, then we can accelerate our plans to invest in upgrading the Cedar Hall basement. Some of these plans include removing the drop ceiling and painting the higher ceiling black, installing white lights to brighten up the room, painting the walls above the wall mats, investing in perpetual plaques to recognize our wrestlers' achievements, purchasing dedicated workout equipment so that our team improves both in their technique and conditioning, installing high shelves and custom-built benches, providing an area outside of the wrestling room for the wrestlers to store their backpacks, shoes, and clothes during practice, upgrading the floor mats, and purchasing high quality canvas pictures of our wrestlers competing - and winning!

Upgrading the wrestling room is a multi-year project, so any funds that we raise in excess of $40,000 will help accelerate the upgrades and improvements planned for the space. Thank you for your support!

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