The Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association has announced that it will hold the 2021 EIWA Championship on Friday, Feb. 26 at the Spooky Nook Sports Complex in Manheim, Pa. It will mark the first time in the event's history that the tournament will be held off-campus. Meanwhile, it will be the first time since 1909 that it will be a one-day event.

Ten schools - American, Army, Binghamton, Bucknell, Drexel, Hofstra, Lehigh, Long Island U., Navy and Sacred Heart - will compete in this year's tournament and it will feature five of the top-seven teams from the 2020 championship. Absent from this year's event will be the Ivy League - Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Princeton - and Centennial Conference - Franklin & Marshall - teams. Broadcast live on FloWrestling.org (subscription required), the 117th EIWA Championship is scheduled to begin at 10:00 am with championship and place winner matches slated for approximately 5:30 pm. No spectators or outside media will be permitted to attend the championship.

Navy placed fourth at last year's EIWA Championship where it crowned a pair of individual champions in 141-pound Cody Trybus and 165-pound Tanner Skidgel.

The No. 21 Midshipmen (3-1, 1-0 EIWA) will wrestle their final home match of the season when they play host to George Mason (0-2) Friday evening at Alumni Hall. Closed to fans due to current public health guidelines in the state of Maryland, the dual is slated to begin at 7:30 pm and will be broadcast live on ESPN+.

### Go Navy ###