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ell-rounded in life and well-
versed in the sport, Mark Hall's
Penn State wrestling career to
date has been nothing but well done.
Hall came to Penn State in 2016 carry-
ing some of the most impressive statistics
a high school wrestler could possibly
compile. Some four years later, he's yet to
stop impressing the legion of Nittany
Lion fans who follow him.
Call it an inauspicious debut if you must
– he lost, 7-5, to Alex Meyer of Iowa on
Jan. 20, 2017, the night that his freshman-
year redshirt was pulled – but Hall lost
just once more that season
and only once in each of the
two seasons that followed.
He was 13-0 as of Jan. 12 this
year, and while a handful of
his Nittany Lion teammates
are combining full-season
folkstyle with in-season
freestyle, Hall is NCAA first and USA sec-
ond.
His plan to qualify for the Olympic Tri-
als – scheduled for Penn
State's Bryce Jordan Center
April 4-5 – is to win his sec-
ond NCAA championship on
March 21 in Minneapolis. If
by chance he isn't able to
claim his second title in four
years, after losing in the
W R E S T L I N G
FORWARD THINKER
Mark Hall is focused on the future as he looks to make the most of his final season
ALL THE RIGHT
MOVES
Hall
was victorious
in 106 of his
first 111 career
matches with
the Nittany
Lions.
Photo by
Steve Manuel
