INDIANAPOLIS – Duals champion and nationally-ranked Lake Erie racked up another Great Midwest Athletic Conference Wrestling Athlete of the Week honor as announced on Tuesday.
The Storm are fresh off the league’s first conference championship offering at the Heminger Center in Tiffin. LEC went 4-0 over the two-day tournament, including a 26-20 dual win over the 11th-ranked Dragons, to finish on top.
Lake Erie is now ranked at No. 21 in the new NWCA Coaches Poll while Tiffin went from No. 11 to a tie for 16th.
The first-ever Great Midwest all-conference team will be voted on by the league’s coaches following the conclusion of super regional competition as student-athletes take aim for national championship bids.
Wrestling Athlete of the Week
Forrest Glogouski
Lake Erie
133 Pounds
Senior
New Paris, IN (Fairfield HS)
Glogouski accounted for a team-high 19 points in the 133-pound weight class in four combined matches at the Great Midwest Championship.
On Friday, the senior delivered a quick pin in his first action on the mat in 1:08 against Kentucky Wesleyan.
Glogouski had a busy day on Saturday with three matches, but came through in a big way. Against Findlay, he recorded bonus points to the team score with an 11-3 major decision.
Versus Tiffin, he had his second pin of the tournament with a 3:19 stick of Rico Puente, part of back-to-back pins recorded in the lighter weights with 141 pounder Andrew Lieb.
He finished off his perfect tournament record showing with a 10-5 decision in the final match of the day against Alderson Broaddus.