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2022-23 Wrestling Roster

Val Park

  • Class Senior
  • Weight 165
  • Hometown Edmond, Okla.
  • High School Heritage Hall

Biography

2022-23 // Senior Year
Navy’s starter at 165 pounds in 10 duals … Recorded a 20-14 overall record and a 4-6 dual record … Earned a season-best No. 32 national ranking by InterMat … Finished in second place at the Clarion Open (3-1), fifth / sixth place at the Bearcat Open (3-1) and fifth at the Navy Classic (5-1) … Also competed in the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational and Franklin & Marshall Open … Claimed dual victories over Maryland, Lehigh, Hofstra and Bucknell … Competed at 165 pounds in the EIWA Championship and posted a record of 1-2.
 
2021-22 // Junior Year
Navy’s starter at 165 pounds in nine matches, he recorded a 22-15 overall record and a 4-5 dual record … Made appearances in the Clarion Open, Bearcat Open, Navy Classic and Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invite … Went 5-1 at Bearcat Open to place fifth / sixth and 5-1 at Navy Classic to place fifth / sixth … Defeated InterMat No. 23 nationally-ranked David Ferrante of Northwestern by a 5-1 decision … Claimed an upset victory against No. 27 Dalton Harkins of Army by a 3-0 decision to help the Mids defeat Army, 22-9 … Earned dual victories over Maryland, Cornell, Clarion and Army … Went 2-3 at EIWA Championship to place eighth. Used a 14-1 major decision to beat 15th-seeded Keegan Rothrock and a 7-2 decision to beat No. 25 /  fifth-seeded Brian Meyer of Lehigh.
 
2020-21 // Sophomore Year
Navy wrestled a COVID-shortened season that did not include tournaments outside of the EIWA and NCAA Championships … Made appearances in five matches (4-1) over the course of the season, including a pair of duals (2-0) … Earned dual victories over Cleveland State’s Daniel Patten (5-4) and George Mason’s Daniel Segura (12-5) … His only loss of the season was a 4-2 decision in a sudden victory against Pitt’s Tyler Badgett in an “extra match”.

2019-20 // Freshman Year
Competed in three tournaments at 149 pounds - Navy Classic, Southern Scuffle, Shorty Hitchcock Memorial - along with five dual appearances where he amassed a combined 7-10 record … Earned his first collegiate victory by way of a 15-3 major decision against Kent State’s Ian Senz at the Navy Classic … Made dual appearances against Penn State, American, Drexel, George Mason, and Army … Made his collegiate debut in the Mids’ dual against top-ranked Penn State.

High School
2019 graduate of Heritage Hall High School in Oklahoma City, Okla. … Four-year wrestling letter winner … Won three consecutive (2017, ’18, ‘19) Class 4A Oklahoma Individual State Championships … Garnered Oklahoma All-America honors in 2016 … Named the conference’s outstanding wrestling his senior year … Member of the National Honor Society … Member of the Dean’s List.

Personal
Son of Hank and Susan Park … Majoring in physics … Earned USNA academic honors in two semesters … Both his father and his mother are 1992 graduates of the Naval Academy … His father was a member of the Navy football team his plebe year and his mother was a member of the cross country team for four years.

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20Freshman

    149 lbs
  • 2020-21Sophomore

    157 lbs
  • 2021-22Junior

    157 lbs
  • 2022-23Senior

    165 lbs