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N E W C O M E R S O F I N F L U E N C E be a challenge and if it doesn't happen right away, it'll eventually happen." WHY PSU? "There are only three or four, maybe =ve, schools at the most in a given year that even remotely have a chance of winning the NCAAs, so I'm extremely proud and excited that I'm going to be on a team that's going to be in that champi- onship race each and every year." Nevills added, too, that while on his vis- its, he's made multiple stops at the Cream- ery, "which I also love" he said. "I think I had that four or =ve times while I was there. Cookie dough, every time. It was so good." COLLEGE OUTLOOK "I'm just really looking forward to the next =ve years of my life, so it'll be really good. Then a>er those =ve years, I'll hopefully stay along more for the Nittany Lion Wrestling Club and keep wrestling with those guys. That will be really exciting." POTENTIAL OF INCOMING CLASS "Even though things aren't going to be the same – you don't have the David Tay- lors and Ed Ruths and Quentin Wrights and people like that on your team every year – you can have a core group of 10 guys who know what they want and how they want to get it. [The coaches] have been around it before, and I think this is what's going to happen with this incoming class. You've seen the success of the last couple years, and I don't want it to stop. I'd love to keep winning, but that's going to depend on how hard everyone works. Everyone has to do their part. That's something that I'm looking forward to: going in there and doing the best I can do, and hopefully it'll work out in the end. I'm just really excited that I'm going to a place where we're even talking about this." TIM'S TAKE With Jon Gingrich and Jim- my Lawson exhausting their =nal season of eligibility in 2014-15, Nevills comes in at the perfect time. He'll have a season to redshirt and then he'll have four full seasons to lock down the 285-pound weight class. Nevills is surprisingly nimble and is known for his low leg attacks and pinning ability. As a senior, he broke the California record for falls, which had pre- viously been held by Olympic gold medal- ist and Nittany Lion Wrestling Club res- ident athlete Jake Varner. Nevills will bring a lot of personality with him to Penn State. ■ Three additions give boost to Lions' class Penn State is getting set to wel- come additional wrestlers. Three prospects have already committed, with more likely to come. GARY DINMORE 165/174 Flemington, N.J. Hunterdon Central RESUME 134-15 career record, in- cluding a 39-3 mark as a senior… FloWrestling.com's No. 16 152- pounder… Three-time NJSIAA state =nalist… Four-time District 17 and Region 5 champ... Expected to join team in 2015 SHAKUR RASHEED 157-174 Middle Island, N.Y. Longwood RESUME 192-15 career record, in- cluding 53 consecutive wins to con- clude career… IntermatWrest- le.com's No. 56 overall recruit... No. 7 by FloWrestling and Inter- matWrestle at 160 pounds… Two- time Division I New York state champion, four-time =nalist and 2014 Most Outstanding Wrestler ANTHONY CASSAR 197 Montgomery, N.J. Montgomery RESUME 113-21 career record, in- cluding a 43-0 mark as a senior… Ranked No. 20 by IntermatWrestle at 195 pounds… 2014 NJSIAA state champion Taylor nearly tops world champ at freestyle event David Taylor held a three-point lead over the defending three-time world champ with only 30 seconds le> in the =nal round. But he gave up two take- downs to Jordan Burroughs and fell, 7-6, to claim second place at the 2014 Vegas ASICS/U.S. Open April 20 in Las Vegas. Taylor, who recently concluded his Penn State career with a second NCAA championship, led the Nittany Lion Wrestling Club contingent with a 3-1 record at 74 kilograms. Ed Ruth =nished in third place with a 5-1 record at 86 kg. Current Penn State wrestlers Matt Brown, Zack Beitz, Kade Moss and Jor- dan Conaway also competed in the freestyle event. Brown went 3-2 at 86 kg, while Beitz and Moss both went 1-2 at 65 kg. Conaway was 1-2 at 57 kg. A three-man Penn State group com- peted in the FILA Junior Nationals. Zain Retherford (66 kg) =nished second, falling to California phenom Aaron Pico in the =nal. Garrett Hammond (73 kg) =nished 6-3, Cody Law (70 kg) 5-3 and Matt McCutcheon (84 kg) 3-2. – T.O. CORRECTION In the May 2 edition of Blue White Illustrated, we reported that Dick Lemyre and Gerry Maurey won na- tional titles in 1953. In fact, Lemyre =n- ished in second place that year, while Maurey =nished third. They were both EIWA champs in '53.

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