The Dan Hodge Trophy is awarded each year to the United States of America’s best college wrestler.[1] The trophy is presented at the end of the season by WIN magazine and Culture House.[2] It is the collegiate wrestling equivalent to the Heisman Trophy in college football.[3] Its high school wrestling equivalent is the Junior Hodge Trophy, which has been awarded annually since 1998.[4]
The Hodge Trophy is named after Danny Hodge, a three–time NCAA champion for the University of Oklahoma from 1955 to 1957.[5] The Hodge Trophy was created by Mike Chapman, founder of WIN magazine and Culture House, a company that produces books and posters.[6] The first winner was T.J. Jaworsky, a three–time NCAA Division I National champion from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995.[7]
There have been six multiple winners of the Hodge Trophy. The first was Iowa State's legend Cael Sanderson, who won the award three times in his run as the first undefeated four–time NCAA champion, the second was Ben Askren from Missouri, who won the award two times, the third and fourth were David Taylor and Zain Retherford respectively, both from Penn State, who won the award two times, the fifth is Spencer Lee from Iowa, and the latest and sixth one is Gable Steveson, who won the award two times, being the only heavyweight to do so.[8]
The DanHodgeTrophy is awarded each year to the United States of America’s best college wrestler. The trophy is presented at the end of the season by...
three-time age-group world champion. In folkstyle, Steveson was a two-time DanHodgeTrophy winner, a two-time NCAA Division I national champion, and a three-time...
Junior Heavyweight Champion. The DanHodgeTrophy is the college wrestling equivalent of the Heisman Trophy. Hodge was born and raised in Perry, Oklahoma...
Oklahoma State Male Athlete of the Year in 2016. That same year, he won a DanHodgeTrophy and ended his college career with 133 wins and only four losses. Since...
State Nittany Lion wrestlers of all time, Retherford was a two-time DanHodgeTrophy winner and a three-time NCAA Division I National champion. Retherford...
U20 level. In folkstyle, Lee won the James E. Sullivan Award and the DanHodgeTrophy twice, as well as three NCAA Division I national championships out...
was the second wrestler to secure multiple DanHodgeTrophies (the wrestling equivalent of the Heisman Trophy) in folkstyle wrestling. He was also a world...
Conference champion at 285 pounds for the Michigan Wolverines, and the DanHodgeTrophy winner. Parris attended Lawrenceburg High School in Lawrenceburg, Indiana...
national championships, four Big Ten Conference championships, and the DanHodgeTrophy for the Ohio State Buckeyes during his career. In 2024, Stieber was...
individual NCAA National Championship titles. Former wrestlers include DanHodgeTrophy Winners Kerry McCoy (1997), Zain Retherford (2017, 2018), Bo Nickal...
2004 - Oscar Wood 2008 - Heinrich Barnes 2020 - Amarveer Dhesi The DanHodgeTrophy is awarded to the nation's top wrestler each season. 1996 - Les Gutches...
different weight classes, and without a redshirt season. He was named the DanHodgeTrophy winner and Schalles Award winner as a senior and he also claimed three...
two-time NCAA national champion, four-time finalist, and was awarded the DanHodgeTrophy. In freestyle, he represented the US at the Olympics and was a three-time...
National champion for the Nebraska Cornhuskers and was awarded the DanHodgeTrophy in 2011. Burroughs is from the Sicklerville section of Winslow Township...
Dieringer was a three-time NCAA Division I national champion, 2016 DanHodgeTrophy winner, four-time All-American, and four-time Big 12 Conference champion...
most accomplished Nittany Lions of all-time, Nickal earned the 2019 DanHodgeTrophy as the nation's most outstanding collegiate wrestler, was a two-time...
freestyle wrestling at the 1997 World Wrestling Championships, the DanHodgeTrophy as the nation's best college wrestler in 1996, becoming the National...
minor in real estate. He also built a close relationship with two–time DanHodgeTrophy winner and eventual Bellator MMA World Champion Ben Askren and two–time...
school pinner. In college, he defeated future two-time NCAA champion, DanHodgeTrophy winner, and MMA world champion Ben Askren of Missouri for both of his...
forty-four All-Americans; also, Kyle Dake of Cornell was awarded the DanHodgeTrophy as national wrestler of the year and was named most outstanding wrestler...
in a rematch, Starocci defeated three straight opponents, including DanHodgeTrophy winner Alex Dieringer and three-time All-American David McFadden, to...
Cael Sanderson and David Taylor as the only sophomores to win the DanHodgeTrophy as the best collegiate wrestler in the United States. He was also named...
I All-American, three-time Big Ten Conference champion and the '20 DanHodgeTrophy runner-up for the Ohio State Buckeyes. Moore attended Norwayne High...
All-American. He went 149-4 while at Northwestern University. He won the 2009 DanHodgeTrophy awarded to the best college wrestler in the nation and the 2009 Big...
NCAA Division I Collegiate National Champion (2006, 2007), 2-time DanHodgeTrophy Collegiate Wrestler of the Year (2006, 2007), and competed in the 2008...
tournaments, one loss was handed by graduated Penn State legend and two-time DanHodgeTrophy winner David Taylor (TF), and the other one by returning All-American...
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