Wrestling | 6/10/2015 8:01:00 AM

ROCHESTER, NY – Senior Brad Mayville (Marion, NY/Wayne) of the RIT wrestling team was named a 2015 CoSIDA/Capital One Academic At-Large Third Team All-American on Wednesday, June 10. On May 15, he was named to the All-District team. Mayville is the first RIT wrestler to earn this prestigious honor since the turn of the century.
 
Mayville became RIT's highest finisher at the 2015 NCAA Championship in four years, placing third in his weight class (149 lbs.) to garner All-American accolades. Mayville, who also was third at the NCAA Mideast Regional, led the team with a 33-6 record with 14 pinfalls. He was named the ECWC Wrestler of the Week on Feb. 24 and won his weight class at the season-opening Monarch Invitational on Nov. 1. Last season, Mayville earned his first bid to the NCAA Championships, finishing with 33 victories.
 
Mayville finished 99-26 in three seasons at RIT and recorded 124 wins in his collegiate career. He is a seven-time RIT Male Athlete of the Week in his collegiate career.

"It is a very befitting award not only to a talented wrestling All-American and Academic All-American but to a wonderful young man," said RIT head wrestling coach Scott Stever. Tremendous recognition for Brad at the conclusion of his RIT wrestling career."

At the NCAA's in March, Mayville, the No. 7 seed at 149 lbs., rolled to a 13-3 win over Jake Kostik of the University of Concordia-Moorhead in his first round match. In the quarterfinals, Mayville put up a valiant effort agianst No. 2 seed Derek Arnold of Ursinus, but fell by a score of 10-6 to enter the wrestleback round. In his first consolation match of the night, Mayville ensured no worse than an eighth place finish by defeating Trevor Engle of Cornell College, 7-4. The next day, Mayville won all three of his matches to secure third place nationally, highest finish by a RIT wrestler since Mike McInally garnered runner-up honors in 2011. He opened the day by pinning Will Keeter of Augsburg in 4:53. Next was a match against top-seed Dan Mirman of John Carroll. Mayville opened up a big lead in the first period and hung on for a tremendous 8-4 win. In the third place match, Mayville finished his collegiate career in style, exacting revenge on Arnold, pinning him with 1:03 left in the match.
 
A criminal justice graduate, Mayville carried an excellent 3.61 grade-point average. In  March, Mayville was named a 2015 National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Academic All-American for the second consecutive season.