page_title: Navy Midshipmen
section_title: Wrestling
hierarchical_section_title: Navy Midshipmen / Men's varsity sports / Wrestling
caption_attribution_description: The varsity wrestling team of 1949 just couldn't seem to be defeated in dual competition. Its string of victories reached the half-century mark and the post-season excellence of the individual grapplers was no less sensational. Bart Downes is shown here wrestling against Penn State. [#3386; 219K]
context_page_description: The Navy Midshipmen are the athletic teams that represent the United States Naval Academy. The academy sponsors 33 varsity sports teams and 12 club sport teams. Both men's and women's teams are called Navy Midshipmen or "Mids". They participate in the NCAA's Division I, as a non-football member of the Patriot League, a football-only member of the American Athletic Conference in the Football Bowl Subdivision, and a member of the Collegiate Sprint Football League, Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges, Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges, Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics League, Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference and Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association. Navy is also one of approximately 300 members of the Eastern College Athletic Conference.
  The most important sporting event at the academy is the annual Army–Navy Game. The 2014 season marked Navy's 13th consecutive victory over Army. The three major service academies compete for the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy, which is awarded to the academy that defeats the others in football that year.
context_section_description: The Navy Midshipmen wrestling team is coached by Cary Kolat. The wrestling team at the United States Naval Academy have competed beginning since 1920 and have been competing for the NCAA Championships starting in the 1931 season. The team has placed as high as 5th at the NCAA Championships back in 1942 and 1968, and most recently 18th both in 2007 & 2008. With 44 wrestlers placing 61 times as All-Americans at the NCAA Division I Championships and 6 overall four-time All-Americans throughout its time. The Navy Midshipman compete on campus at the Wesley A. Brown Field House for home dual meets and tournaments competing in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association, as the Patriot League does not sponsor wrestling.
caption: Navy and Penn State wrestlers in 1949.
exif: {}