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Northwestern's Jake Herbert reacts to his victory over Ohio State's
Mike Pucillo in a championship bout in the 184-pound weight class at
the NCAA Division I wrestling championships March 21in St. Louis.
(AP Photo/Tom Gannam)
On March 21, Northwestern’s Jake Herbert concluded his college wrestling career by winning the 184-pound title at the 2009 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships in St. Louis. Now, as icing on that cake, Herbert has earned two major national wrestling awards: Rev Wrestler of the Year, and the Hodge Trophy.
Rev Wrestler of the Year is presented each year to the nation’s best college wrestler across all divisions, and is based on a vote of writers and executives from the amateur wrestling website RevWrestling.com. Jake Herbert won a total of 60 votes, including five first-place votes, to edge out 149-pound NCAA champ Darrion Caldwell of North Carolina State, with 58 votes, three of those being first-place votes.
The Hodge Trophy, awarded by WIN (Wrestling Insider Newsmagazine) and the Dan Gable International Wrestling Institute & Museum in Iowa, is given annually to the college wrestler who ranks highest in seven key criteria: overall record, number of pins, dominance, past credentials, quality of competition, sportsmanship, and heart. The Hodge has been nicknamed “the Heisman of college wrestling.” The award is named in honor of Dan Hodge, three-time NCAA 177-pound champ for the University of Oklahoma in 1955-57, considered to be one of the all-time great U.S. amateur wrestlers.
Jacob John Herbert, a native of Wexford, Pennsylvania, built a 141-18 record in high school, winning the state title his senior year in 2003. At Northwestern, Herbert compiled an incredible 135-4 varsity record. That translates to a .971 winning percentage, which ranks fifth among all college wrestlers in the past 35 years. He became the first four-time Wildcat All-American, and only the second Northwestern wrestler to ever win two NCAA titles. (The first was Jack Riley, who won the national collegiate heavyweight title in 1931 and 1932, then earned a silver medal in freestyle for the U.S. at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.)
Herbert is known for his aggressive style. In his first match of his senior year – after taking an Olympic redshirt during the 2007-08 season – he pinned Michigan’s Hunter Collins in just 14 seconds. It was the first of 15 pins Herbert collected this year.
Further proof of Herbert’s take-no-prisoners attitude: At the 2009 NCAAs, the Northwestern 184-pounder went after his opponents from the starting whistle, scoring a takedown in the first 15 seconds of each of his five matches, including his title bout with defending 184 champ Mike Pucillo of Ohio State, who he defeated, 6-3.
Jake Herbert isn’t one to rest on his titles – or national awards. His college wrestling career complete, he will continue to compete in freestyle competition, setting his sights on making the U.S. freestyle team for the 2012 Olympics in London.
Resources
- Want to know more about Jake Herbert? Read his bio at the official Northwestern Wildcat wrestling website.
- RevWrestling.com’s story on Jake Herbert winning the 2009 Rev Wrestler of the Year award.
- WIN-Magazine’s announcement that Jake Herbert had been awarded the 2009 Hodge Trophy.
- More photos and info on Hodge Trophy winners.
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