Nahshon Garrett

NAHSHON GARRETT

2023-24 Team USA Ranking: No. 2 at 61 kg/ 134.5 lbs. 

Years on Team USA: 2 (2018-2019, 2023-2024)

Residence: Bethlehem, Pa.

Club: Sunkist Kids WC

Personal Coaches: Kerry McCoy

College: Cornell University (2013-2016)

Regional Training Center: Lehigh Valley WC

High School: Chico, Calif. (2011)

Born: August 21, 1993 in Chico, Calif.

Height: 5-5

Career Highlights

• 2018 Final X champion
• Second in 2023 Final X
• 2023 World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion
• Second in 2017 and 2018 U.S. Open
• 2017 Guelph International champion (Canada)
• 2016 NCAA champion for Cornell
• Four-time NCAA All-American (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)

Career Biography 

2023: Third in Waclaw Ziokowski Memorial (Poland)… Second in Final X… World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion… Third in U.S. Open… Second in Henri Deglane Challenge (France)…

2022: Second in Bill Farrell Memorial International…

2021: Sixth in U.S. Open

2019: Sixth in U.S. Open… Fourth in Bill Farrell Memorial International…

2018: Final X champion… Freestyle World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion… U.S. Open runner-up… Fifth in Outstanding Ukrainian Memorial…

2017: Second in Dave Schultz Memorial International (Nov.) … U.S. Open runner-up… Guelph International champion…

2014: University World Team Challenge runner-up … University Nationals champion…

College: 2016 NCAA champion at 133 pounds for coach Rob Koll at Cornell with a perfect 37-0 record … Fifth at 2015 NCAA Nationals… Second in 2014 NCAA Championships… Third at 2013 NCAA Championships … four-time EIWA champion (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016) … majored in Developmental Sociology and minored in Religious Studies and Communications…

High School: Two-time CIF California state champion (2010, 2011) … coached by Keith Rollins and Jordan Mathews…

Age-Group Achievements: Sixth at FILA Junior Nationals (2012) … Seventh at Freestyle Junior Fargo Nationals (2011) … Fourth at Greco-Roman Junior Fargo Nationals (2010) … Eighth at Freestyle Junior Fargo Nationals (2010) … 

Personal: Son of Golden Sizemore and Alvin Garrett… has three older sisters, Denine, Kesha, Vena, and Kandi, and two older brothers, Isaac and Cameron… started wrestling at the age of 13… actively follows Jesus…

Hobbies: music… vlogging…

Awards: Three-time Ivy League Wrestler of the Year (2013, 2014, 2016)…

Note: Unable to attend 2018 World Championships due to injury after making World Team.

Twitter: @nahshongarrett

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