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2024-25 Wrestling Roster

Chase Mielnik

  • Weight 197
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Position 197 lbs
  • Major Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
  • Hometown Downingtown, PA
  • High School Downingtown West
  • Prev School VMI
  • Instagram chase_mielnik
  • Opendorse chase-mielnik

Biography

CAREER HONORS:
  • 2025 Iron Terp Award
  • 2025 Hudson Taylor Award Winner

2024-25 (REDSHIRT SENIOR):
  • Won 11 matches on the season with six decisions and five pins. 
  • Pinned PJ Casale (Rutgers) in 4:58 at the Big Ten Championships.
  • Second place at 2024 Tiger Style Invite (197 pounds).
  • Had a streak of wins by falls in four straight matches (American dual, Morgan State dual and two matches at George Mason Open).
  • Second place at George Mason Patriot Open, going 3-1 on the day.
2023-24 (REDSHIRT JUNIOR):
  • Finished 9th at 2024 Big Ten Championships with three straight wins. As a 14th seed, took down 11-seed Dylan Connell (Illinois), nine-seed Troy Fisher (Northwestern), and 13-seed Aiden Riggins (Iowa). 
  • Served as the Terps' starter at 184 pounds all season, competing in all eight Big Ten duals
  • Claimed a fall over Drexel's Ethan Wilson on Feb. 23.
  • Won 3 matches at 2024 Franklin and Marshall Lehman Open. 
  • Picked up first dual win of the season at Morgan State (12/10) in a 4-1 decision. 
  • Competed at 2023 Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational. 
  • 4th Place at 2023 Tiger Style Invite.

2022-23 (REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE):
  • Competed at the Tiger Style Invite (11/11), earning a place in the fifth place match
  • Wrestled against Pittsburgh (11/18) and Navy (12/11).
  • Competed in 11 total duals, making his Big Ten debut on 1/09 against Indiana. 

2021-22 (REDSHIRT):
  • Fifth-place at 2021 Clarion Open.

Before Maryland: 
  • Competed at 184 pounds in nine matches during his freshman year VMI.
  • Had five wins on the season. 
  • Earned two decisions and two technical falls.
  • Notched a pin against Bellarmine.

HIGH SCHOOL:
  • A four-year letterman.
  • Placed first at district and regionals as a senior and fourth in the state.
  • Set the school single-season pin record with 32 and the career pin record (84).
  • Three-time all-district and all-region.
  • A two-time freestyle state champion and a three-time Greco state champion.

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Sophomore

    184 pounds
    184 lbs

  • 2022-23Sophomore

    184 pounds
    184 lbs

  • 2023-24Redshirt Junior

    184 pounds
    184 lbs

  • 2024-25Redshirt Senior

    197 pounds
    197 lbs