PRINCETON, N.J. – The fifth-ranked Presbyterian College women's wrestling team is all set to begin a fresh campaign in the same spot for the third consecutive season, headed to the northeast for the Princeton Open on Sunday morning.

In their prior two appearances at this particular tournament (2023 and 2022), the Blue Hose have racked up 38 individual victories. They'll once more travel to Princeton to unscrew the lid on a new season, bringing their highest-ever ranking with them.

The brackets will get started at 9:00 AM, a large event that encapsulates multiple men's and women's programs.

After posting four top-three finishes in Princeton two years ago, PC (then comprised almost entirely of freshmen) went back to the same site last season and earned four more placements of at least 4^th.


 
GAMEDAY INFO – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3
#5 Presbyterian at Princeton Open
WHERE / WHEN: Princeton, N.J. | 9:00 AM
LIVE RESULTS: Track Wrestling


 
MOUNTAINOUS EXPECTATIONS
 
- The National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) christened Presbyterian and second-year head coach Brian Vutianitis with their best-ever preseason ranking earlier this week, naming PC as the #5 team in the nation.

- This comes after an 8^th-place national finish in the spring, the second straight time that the Blue Hose have posted a top-ten standing at the conclusion of a lengthy year.

- Backing up their lofty preseason hype, six wrestlers were ranked inside the top ten of their respective weight class, led by sophomore Maddie Kubicki (145) who enters this season at #3 in her group.

- Cassia Zammit (another second-year rising star) clocks in at 5^th in class 131, while Paige Wehrmeister looks to bounce back from an injury-riddled 2024 as the #6 competitor in class 138.

- Alyssa Mahan (124), Henlee Haynes (180), and Ella Beam (207) were all penciled in at #8 in their classes, bringing PC to a tidal wave of anticipation for the new season to be ushered in.

- Last season, on a roster that was made up almost fully of new faces, the Blue Hose sported a wrestler who came in third-place or better 28 times in tournament play. A PC grappler took home a gold medal 11 times last season, while also defeating four nationally-ranked schools in a dual setting.


 
PREVIOUSLY IN PRINCETON
 
- Last year's Princeton Open was the collegiate debut for five of PC's seven entrees on that day. Haynes certainly made a solid first impression 12 months ago, collecting a silver prize on her first shift with the garnet and blue singlet.

-  Lightweight Chiara Barbieri also scooped a podium spot by coming in 3^rd with a 3-1 mark, while Beam and Mahan won seven combined matches to each finish 4^th.

- Five of Vutianitis' wrestlers won at least three times when the Blue Hose were last at the Ivy League venue, a productive first step in a season that was full of phenomenal feats.