Thiel College Men's Wrestling

ActiveRecruiting form ✓verified 2026-08-16

Coaching & contact verified 2026-08-18

Craig Thurber head coach

Official email: cthurber@thiel.edu from official staff page
Office phone: 724-589-2814
Other staff: Craig Thurber (Rod E. Wilt '86 Head Coach for Thiel Wrestling); Logan Long '22 (Assistant Coach); Lance Phatorus (Assistant Coach)

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Questionnaire: Wrestling-specific recruiting questionnaire — open form ↗
Official links: Athletics site ↗Wrestling page ↗Roster ↗
Suggested first step: Submit the Thiel wrestling ARI questionnaire, then email head coach Craig Thurber at cthurber@thiel.edu or call 724-589-2814 with your weight class. 184 is the thinnest weight on the published roster (one wrestler) and 125, 141, 165, 174 and 197 each carry only two, so name the weight you project at and ask where he sees room in 2027-28.
Women's wrestling: No

2 crowded weights · 1 lighter weight on the 2025-26 roster (26 listed) · Wrestling competitiveness: Moderate

Counted from the 2025-26 roster. We recount when Thiel's 2026-27 roster goes up, and the change log shows it.

Thiel scored 100 to Saint Vincent's 118.5 at the 2026 PAC Championships — what has to change in the lineup for the Tomcats to take the conference title back, and where do you see the points coming from?
The team went 12th of 20 at Region IV and no Tomcat has qualified for the D3 national tournament in the last two seasons — what does a wrestler in your room need to do to break through at regionals?

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Type: Private
Conference (all sports): Presidents' Athletic Conference
Undergraduates: 788 federal (College Scorecard)
Admission rate: 72% federal (College Scorecard)
Average net price: $22,347 federal · after aid, all costs
Cost of attendance: $53,202 federal · Scorecard 2026-06 release
Completion rate: 49% federal
Student : faculty: 12:1
Notable programs: Thiel highlights 100% job placement within three months of graduation for accounting, education, neuroscience and speech-language pathology majors. Health professions have a dedicated section of the academics site, and the two graduate degrees offered are Management (M.B.A.) and Speech-Language Pathology.

Division III schools do not award athletic scholarships; aid is merit/need-based.

Conference finishes: 2025: 3 · 2026: 2
Recent dual record: 2025-26: 4-2 overall, 4-1 PAC; 2024-25: 2-4 overall, 2-2 PAC
Notable: The Tomcats placed 2nd of 6 at the 2026 PAC Championships (February 14, 2026 at Hiram College), scoring 100 points to champion Saint Vincent's 118.5. Jonathan Bissell won the 157-pound title and Joey King the heavyweight title; Anthony Ceriani (165), Zachery Ward (184), Logan Ventura (141) and Mequan Maxwell (149) were runners-up, with third-place finishes from Jacob Potts (157), EJ McCarthy (125) and Deshonn Valentine (133). Head coach Craig Thurber collected his conference-record 10th PAC Coach of the Year honor. In 2024-25 Thiel was 3rd of 5 at the PAC Championships (February 15, 2025 at Waynesburg) with individual champions King (197) and Phillips (285). Other 2025-26 placings: 6th of 13 at the John Summa Invitational (Bissell 149-pound champion), 7th at the W&J Invitational and 11th of 13 at the Baldwin Wallace Invitational.

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