SOURCE: www.ritathletics.com

March 17, 2016

ROCHESTER, NY - Senior Jake Swearingen (Quakertown, PA/Quakertown), sophomores Joe Cutugno (Ventnor, NJ/Atlantic City) and Coty Lutz (Forestport, NY/Adirondack), along with freshmen Kirkland Feeney (Lockport, NY/Lockport), Dempsey King (New Hartford, NY/New Hartford), and Austin Prince (Nunda, NY/Keshequa) of the RIT wrestling team were named to the 2016 Empire Collegiate Wrestling Conference (ECWC) All-Academic Team on Thursday, March 17.

Recipients of this honor must have a 3.30 cumulative grade point average or higher (through the last eligible grading period of the current academic year) while completing an entire season as a member of a conference institution's wrestling team. Freshmen and transfers that have been enrolled full-time for at least one semester are eligible to receive this honor. A total of 47 wrestlers were honored as members of the ECWC All-Academic Team.