BLACKSBURG – First-year head coach Tony Robie has announced the Virginia Tech wrestling program’s schedule for the 2017-18 season.
Multiple matches against marquee opponents are featured on this year’s slate as the Hokies will host six duals in Blacksburg; five at Cassell Coliseum and one at the Moss Arts Center.
“Our goal as a staff with this year’s schedule was to make sure that we face competition that helps prepare us for the ACC and NCAA Championships and I think we accomplished that,” Robie said. “November and December will challenge us and give us a great feel for what we need to work on as a team and where we can improve individually. Facing Missouri at the Moss Center the Saturday after Thanksgiving is something I think I fans will be excited about.
The home dual schedule begins with Central Michigan at Cassell Coliseum on November 19 at 3 p.m. The following weekend, the Hokies will face Mizzou at the Moss Arts Center on November 25 in a dual between two programs that finished sixth and fifth, respectively, at last year’s NCAA Championships. Tickets for the dual will go on sale later this fall.
Before returning to Cassell to face West Virginia on December 22, Tech will go head-to-head with Princeton on the stage at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City on December 10.
January will see the Hokies wrestle at the Virginia Duals in Hampton, Virginia from January 12-13 and against Lehigh on January 26 and Duke on January 27 at Cassell Coliseum. The final dual of the season will be at NC State on the weekend of February 16-18. A set date and time will be announced in the coming months.
The Hokies are coming off of their sixth-consecutive top 10 finish at the NCAA Championships after placing sixth in 2017 with five wrestlers earning All-American honors. Tech will have three returning All-Americans this season in redshirt sophomore David McFadden, redshirt junior Solomon Chishko and redshirt senior Jared Haught.
Check out VT’s full 2017 schedule below:
Nov. 5th: @Hokie Open (Roanoke)
Nov 12th: @NE Round Robin (Albany, NY)
Nov. 17th: @Chattanooga
Nov 19th: Central Michigan
Nov 25th: Missouri
Dec. 1st/2nd: @ Cliff Keen Invite (Las Vegas, NV)
Dec. 9th: @Rider
Dec. 10th: Princeton (Madison Square Garden, New York, NY)
Dec 22nd: West Virginia
Jan. 12th/13th: @Virginia Duals (Hampton, VA)
Jan. 19th: @Edinboro
Jan 21st: @Pitt
Jan 26th: Lehigh
Jan 27th: Duke
Feb 3rd: North Carolina
Feb 11th: @Virginia
Feb 16th: @NC State
Mar 3rd: @ACC Championships (Chapel Hill, NC)
Mar 15th/17th: @NCAA National Championships (Cleveland, OH)
Click here for a more in depth schedule with times and locations
