Aaron Brooks wins Hodge Trophy
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Penn State’s four-time champ Aaron Brooks wins 2024 Hodge Trophy - WIN Magazine
Photo: Aaron Brooks of Penn State defeated NC State’s Trent Hidlay to capture the 197-pound NCAA championships last month in Kansas City. The Nittany Lion became the seventh all-time wrestler to win four NCAA titles and now has captured the WIN Magazine/Culture House Dan Hodge Trophy, presented...
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A whole lot to be proud of with regards to Aaron.
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Nittany Lion Aaron Brooks Wins 2024 Hodge Trophy as Nation’s Top Collegiate Wrestler - Penn State Athletics
Penn State senior Aaron Brooks was named the 2024 Hodge Trophy winner as the nation's best collegiate wrestler. The award honors the top college wrestler every year.
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Congratulations AB!!! Both a class act and amazing athlete!
Congratulations to Aaron, @Johnbrooks and Family! Just incredible.
Whooo hooo!! There really should have been little doubt, but this is a well-deserved accolade. Sweet, great job Aaron Brooks!
Our humble Hodge winner was truly a man among boys this season. Damn, our Lions will miss this rock!
My cousins in Hagerstown are sky high for Aaron. He is absolutely beloved in that community!
48 out of 59 first place votes if that gives an indicator of any kind
A blowout as it should have been.
Another loss for Mike Amine
Another loss for Mike Amine
And still people whining about Parker on twitter. That's how it goes, I guess.
Thinking about what Aaron has accomplished brings a couple things to mind.
First, a flashback to the pic of him below formally signing his letter of intent several years ago while at the OTC (I hadn’t taken notice at the time of the other future Lion sitting next to him). We all had high hopes for his PSU career that day but not many of us could’ve predicted just how dominant he would be!
Second, in the YouTube clip below Bo described how extraordinarily hard it is to be successful at the highest levels of college wrestling. Paraphrasing, he said the skill level and hard work separating a great high school wrestler/state champ from a wrestler who makes the team at a D1 school are substantial. The separation between a D1 team member and the starters on that team goes up another level, as does the separation between the starters and those wrestlers who are competitive against other D1 wrestlers. The separation jumps again between those competitive wrestlers and the ones who make it to nationals, then another jump to those who AA, then again to those who become nat’l champs, then again to those who become multi-time champs, and then a final jump to 4-time nat’l champs.
Puts in perspective what Aaron accomplished and why there are so few 4 timers.
First, a flashback to the pic of him below formally signing his letter of intent several years ago while at the OTC (I hadn’t taken notice at the time of the other future Lion sitting next to him). We all had high hopes for his PSU career that day but not many of us could’ve predicted just how dominant he would be!
Second, in the YouTube clip below Bo described how extraordinarily hard it is to be successful at the highest levels of college wrestling. Paraphrasing, he said the skill level and hard work separating a great high school wrestler/state champ from a wrestler who makes the team at a D1 school are substantial. The separation between a D1 team member and the starters on that team goes up another level, as does the separation between the starters and those wrestlers who are competitive against other D1 wrestlers. The separation jumps again between those competitive wrestlers and the ones who make it to nationals, then another jump to those who AA, then again to those who become nat’l champs, then again to those who become multi-time champs, and then a final jump to 4-time nat’l champs.
Puts in perspective what Aaron accomplished and why there are so few 4 timers.
now Carter needs to come back so he can win it next yr!
AB, the easiest choice in the history of choices.
We all saw the difference between them when they wrestled heads up. It was substantial.
"Penn State now with 7 Hodge Trophies, with no other TWO schools combining to have more.
Iowa & Minnesota, and Iowa & Iowa State combined have the same, 7. Ironically, all 3 of Iowa State's are Cael Sanderson's.
Related note: Of the 32 total Hodge Trophy Winners, 9 were won by or coached by Cael."
Impressive. Add another 16 PSU finalists who didn’t win in a given year.
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Well there goes my Nobel Prize in math.
On GIA, the Birdman complained how the Hodge was supposed to consider bonus. Of course, AB had the higher bonus rate (90.91% to 89.29%) and the way higher bonus / team points per match (4.95 to 4.36).
(When you check me, be sure to exclude PK’s three non D1 wins.)
(When you check me, be sure to exclude PK’s three non D1 wins.)
What were those 11 voters thinking?
Well, I think Askren gets two votes so there's that...
Congratulations to Aaron Brooks on winning the Hodge trophy.
It’s hard to believe people think someone else other than Cstar should’ve won.
https://x.com/pennstatewrest/status/1774845295576371664?s=61&t=sji6lsmp4XuliFHzHvdF2w
It’s hard to believe people think someone else other than Cstar should’ve won.
https://x.com/pennstatewrest/status/1774845295576371664?s=61&t=sji6lsmp4XuliFHzHvdF2w
Spencer has 2 also, can see him voting non PSU out of spite
Video of one of them coming back from a long lunch to cast his protest vote for PK. (Or maybe that's just the elder Amine on his way to post more tweets.)
Where did you go to school? It's the Fields medal for under 40 years old in Math. Sheesh.
One was awarded without the NCAA tournament which we learned, anything can happen and the other he was allegedly way behind Gable in votes and got a co (not saying he wasn’t deserving but he didn’t win the traditional way)
Cael has three votes. Any chance he gave one to AB, one to Greg, and one to Carter?
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