LITTLE ROCK - The Little Rock wrestling team has broken into the NWCA Division I Men's Wrestling Coaches Poll, as announced by the National Wrestling Coaches Association on Tuesday. It is the first time that any Trojan team in department history has entered the top 25 of a national coaches poll. Read the full NWCA release here.
It's also the quickest a Division I men's start-up program has hit the Coaches Poll since the poll was first published by Amateur Wrestling News in 1960. The NCAA's divisional structure began in 1973-74. The Little Rock wrestling team began competition in the fall of 2019 under head coach Neil Erisman and associate head coach Javier Maldonado.