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
1/20/2015	Rubhi Garcia-Mercado	Women's Swimming
1/20/2015	Wyatt Norfolk	Wrestling
1/14/2015	Shannon Wiercioch	Women's Swimming
1/14/2015	Dirk Ponchak	Wrestling
12/16/2014	Curtis Cox	Wrestling
12/16/2014	Nia Nolan	Women's Basketball
12/9/2014	Matheus Montarroyos	Men's Swimming
12/9/2014	Francine Meyer	Women's Swimming
12/3/2014	Cierra Mobley	Women's Basketball
12/3/2014	Leon Cooper, Jr.	Men's Basketball
11/25/2014	Rocio Ruiz-Berdejo	Women's Basketball
11/25/2014	Jauries Thomas	Men's Basketball
11/18/2014	Cheyanna Lusk	Women's Basketball
11/18/2014	Alexandre Quintão	Men's Swimming
11/11/2014	Hunter Moles	Men's Soccer
11/11/2014	Sierrah Soto	Women's Soccer
11/4/2014	Noelle Day	Volleyball
11/4/2014	Conrad Lacey	Wrestling
10/28/2014	Kendra Monnin	Women's Swimming
10/28/2014	Manuel Serrano Laguna	Men's Swimming