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Big 12 Champion Ty Watters to Miss Rest of WVU Wrestling Season
On the heels of a conference loss, the WVU wrestling team learns they will be without a reigning Big 12 champion for the rest of the season.
West Virginia announced sophomore Ty Watters will miss the remainder of the 2024-25 season due to an injury.
“We’re really disappointed for Ty,” said WVU wrestling head coach Tim Flynn. “I think there’s hardly a guy in the world who likes to wrestle as much as Ty Watters, so from that standpoint, we’re disappointed, but we’re happy we’re moving forward. It’s on the clock now for the countdown to next year, so the positive is that he gets a medical redshirt, and we will have him for three more years.”
“There's hardly a guy in the world who likes to wrestle as much as Ty Watters” – Coach Flynn
Big 12 champion and All-American Ty Watters will miss the remainder of the season due to injury.
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Watters, who has been out since Nov. 14, is currently ranked No. 3 in the 149-pound weight class, according to FloWrestling. In his last match, he won by technical fall over then-No. 24 Sammy Alvarez, 16-1 [T – 5:00].
As a freshman, Watters won a Big 12 title in 2024 and placed fourth at the NCAA Division I Championships.West Virginia (7-2, 1-2) will host No. 18 Pittsburgh at 1 p.m. Sunday for this season’s rendition of the Backyard Brawl. The Mountaineers defeated the Panthers 24-11 in the squads’ last meeting on Jan. 8, 2023.
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