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Cory Land
- Position:
- 133
- Class:
- Redshirt Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Moody, Alabama
- High School:
- Moody HS
Bio
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HONORS
2025: Academic All-Big 12 Team
REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE (2024-25): Posted a 13-3 record at 133 pounds with three technical falls and two pins and a 2-1 dual record (2-1 in Big 12 duals) ... Made collegiate dual debut with a win against South Dakota State in the NWCA Multi-Division National Dual Meet Championships ... Notched three wins over ranked opponents, including a victory over No. 17 Brett Unger (Cornell) at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational ... Grand View Open and Loras Open champion ... Competed at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational ... Pinned Drew Lugafet (York) in just 34 seconds in his first match of the season ... Academic All-Big 12 Team.
REDSHIRT FRESHMAN (2023-2024): Did not compete due to injury.
FRESHMAN (2022-2023): Won the title at 133 pounds in the freshman/sophomore division at the Grand View Open ... Second place at the Cyclone Open ... Fourth at 133 pounds at the UNI Open ... Took sixth place in the consolation bracket at the Soldier Salute ... Placed second at Pat Flanagan Open... Finished the season with an 11-6 record and team-high 7 falls.
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated ranked No. 3 in the nation at 126 pounds ... 2022 national winner of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame's Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award (DSHSEA) for the nation's most outstanding high school senior male wrestler for excellence in wrestling, academics, citizenship and community service ... First Panther to win the national DSHSEA ... 11th Panther to earn the state recognition for the Dave Schultz Award ... Four-time state champion and also won the Alabama state championships as an eighth-grader ... Had a perfect 203-0 high school record, winning titles at 106 as a freshman, 120 as a sophomore, 126 as a junior and 138 as a senior ... Holds Moody High School record for single-season and career records for wins and pins ... First wrestler from Alabama to compete in the Cadet Greco-Roman World Championships, finishing eighth in 2019 U17 World Championships and capturing a silver medal in 2021 ... 2019: U17 Nationals champion in Greco-Roman and second in freestyle … 2021: U17 Nationals champion in Greco-Roman … third in Junior Folkstyle Nationals … 2022: Second wrestler from Alabama to win a Junior men's freestyle title, winning at 132 pounds … National Recruiting Showcase champion at 126 pounds (folkstyle nationals) … Second at Junior Nationals Greco Roman at 132 pounds … Sixth in U20 Nationals in Greco-Roman … Beta Club officer and member of the Moody High School Student Leadership Team.
PERSONAL: From Moody, Alabama ... Son of Eric Land and Kaylea Williams ... Volunteered in Read Across America Day and at the elementary's Thanksgiving Feast and October Fest.
* REDSHIRT
HONORS
2025: Academic All-Big 12 Team
REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE (2024-25): Posted a 13-3 record at 133 pounds with three technical falls and two pins and a 2-1 dual record (2-1 in Big 12 duals) ... Made collegiate dual debut with a win against South Dakota State in the NWCA Multi-Division National Dual Meet Championships ... Notched three wins over ranked opponents, including a victory over No. 17 Brett Unger (Cornell) at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational ... Grand View Open and Loras Open champion ... Competed at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational ... Pinned Drew Lugafet (York) in just 34 seconds in his first match of the season ... Academic All-Big 12 Team.
REDSHIRT FRESHMAN (2023-2024): Did not compete due to injury.
FRESHMAN (2022-2023): Won the title at 133 pounds in the freshman/sophomore division at the Grand View Open ... Second place at the Cyclone Open ... Fourth at 133 pounds at the UNI Open ... Took sixth place in the consolation bracket at the Soldier Salute ... Placed second at Pat Flanagan Open... Finished the season with an 11-6 record and team-high 7 falls.
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated ranked No. 3 in the nation at 126 pounds ... 2022 national winner of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame's Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award (DSHSEA) for the nation's most outstanding high school senior male wrestler for excellence in wrestling, academics, citizenship and community service ... First Panther to win the national DSHSEA ... 11th Panther to earn the state recognition for the Dave Schultz Award ... Four-time state champion and also won the Alabama state championships as an eighth-grader ... Had a perfect 203-0 high school record, winning titles at 106 as a freshman, 120 as a sophomore, 126 as a junior and 138 as a senior ... Holds Moody High School record for single-season and career records for wins and pins ... First wrestler from Alabama to compete in the Cadet Greco-Roman World Championships, finishing eighth in 2019 U17 World Championships and capturing a silver medal in 2021 ... 2019: U17 Nationals champion in Greco-Roman and second in freestyle … 2021: U17 Nationals champion in Greco-Roman … third in Junior Folkstyle Nationals … 2022: Second wrestler from Alabama to win a Junior men's freestyle title, winning at 132 pounds … National Recruiting Showcase champion at 126 pounds (folkstyle nationals) … Second at Junior Nationals Greco Roman at 132 pounds … Sixth in U20 Nationals in Greco-Roman … Beta Club officer and member of the Moody High School Student Leadership Team.
PERSONAL: From Moody, Alabama ... Son of Eric Land and Kaylea Williams ... Volunteered in Read Across America Day and at the elementary's Thanksgiving Feast and October Fest.
| YEAR | OVERALL | DUALS | BIG 12 DUALS | MD | TF | PINS | QUICK FALL |
| 2022-23* | 11-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 7-0 | 0:32 |
| 2023-24 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | |
| 2024-25 | 13-3 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 3-0 | 2-0 | 0:34 |
| CAREER | 13-3 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 3-0 | 2-0 | 0:34 |
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