Leland Swafford (12/5/2017) - Athlete Awards

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Leland Swafford

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Week Of

12/5/2017
Sport

Wrestling
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Sophomore Leland Swafford has been named a Golden Bear Athlete of the Week for December 1-5, 2017.

Tech had two Golden Bears place at the Messiah Petrofes Invitational including a team-best fifth place finish from Swafford during the two-day competition.

Swafford captured three falls towards his finish at 157 lbs. including a pin at 0:56 over Gettysburg's Noah Struss to kick off the invitational. The Beckley, West Virginia native defeated Ursinus' Jacob Folk by decision (7-6) in the fifth place match.

Athlete Awards
Date	Athlete	Sport
1/27/2016	Julie Conway	Women's Basketball
1/27/2016	Patrick Gnagbo	Men's Basketball
1/20/2016	Terry Nance II	Wrestling
1/20/2016	LaKisha Adkins	Women's Basketball
1/12/2016	Denis Robles	Wrestling
1/12/2016	Savannah Shamblin	Women's Basketball
1/5/2016	Paul Stone	Men's Basketball
1/5/2016	Ryan Atkins	Men's Basketball
12/22/2015	Breanna Propst	Women's Basketball
12/22/2015	Ra'Shaud Kincaid	Men's Basketball
12/16/2015	Conrad Lacey	Wrestling
12/16/2015	Savannah Shamblin	Women's Basketball
12/9/2015	Elizabeth Evans	Women's Basketball
12/9/2015	Alexandre Quintão	Men's Swimming
12/2/2015	Courtney Fisher	Women's Basketball
12/2/2015	Ryan Atkins	Men's Basketball
11/18/2015	Tristan Bean	Wrestling
11/18/2015	Alexandra Klein	Women's Soccer
11/10/2015	Conrad Lacey	Wrestling
11/10/2015	Nikki Aleshire	Women's XC