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2025-26 Wrestling Roster

David Szuba Season 2025-26

Weight285 lbs
ClassGraduate Student
HometownBrick, New Jersey
Previous SchoolRider

Graduate Student (2025-26)

  • Qualified for second-straight NCAA Championships, named No. 10 seed of the HWT division. 
  • Placed third at Big 12 Championship, went 3-1 with a pair of wins over No. 5 seed Juan Mora (Oklahoma) which included a win by fall (2:37) to secure third-place.
  • Named No. 4 seed of Big 12 Championship HWT division.
  • Went into postseason scorching hot as a winner of nine bouts in a row not counting a match limit at the Cyclone Open 
  • Upset Lehigh’s then-No. 5 Nathan Taylor, the largest upset win of his five-year career on Feb. 21
  • Sealed an 18-17 ranked dual-win over No. 22 Cornell with a 7-2 Dec. over Cash Henderson on Jan. 31
  • Placed fourth at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational (HWT) on Dec. 13, 2025
  • Notched 11 bonus point wins
  • Holds the fastest fall of the season for the Sun Devils with a :28 pin over Davidson’s DJ Spring at the MSU Open on Nov. 8

Before ASU (Rider)
2024-25

  • Compiled a 68-37 career record after four seasons at Rider University.
  • Qualified for the NCAA Championships and got a win in the opening round.
  • Won the MAC Championship at 285 lbs, securing the automatic bid for NCAAs, going 12-1 as a senior.

2022-23

  • Posted a career-best 21-13 record, including a 5th-place finish at the MAC Championships.
  • Went 8-6 in dual,s including a 5-2 record in the MAC
  • Named NWCA Scholar All-American and MAC Scholar Athlete

    2021-22
  • Posted a 17-13 overall record, including a dual mark of 7-7 and 5-3 in MAC duals at heavyweight
  • Won six matches by fall
  • Finished 5th at MAC Championships
  • Took 3rd at the Keystone Classic
  • Earned a win by fall over North Carolina State’s #45 Deonte Wilson at the Southern Scuffle  

    High School
  • Earned the 2021 New Jersey State Championship at 285 lbs. with a pin of current Rutgers wrestler John O’Donnell of Toms River North at 1:15
  • Was runner-up in 2020 at 195 lbs
  • Also, a three-year letter winner in football.

    Personal
  • Married to Kayle Rose Szuba
  • Has two children, Rose and Luke
  • The son of Shanna and Benjamin Szuba
  • Has two older brothers, Justin and Nathan, three younger brothers – Benjamin, Caleb and Seth, and two younger sisters, Abigail and Shanna Rose
  • Brother, Justin, played football at Monmouth, earning Academic All-American