Most freshmen student-athletes at UB enter their names into a lottery to determine where they will live on campus.
That hasn’t been the case for Buffalo freshmen wrestlers. They know where they will live months before stepping onto UB’s campus.
Most wrestlers spend their first year living in Governors Hall at the request of head coach John Stutzman. According to Stutzman, it’s been a tradition since he was a wrestler at UB in the mid-1990s.
For the most part, it’s been a success.
Most UB Honors College freshmen live in Governors. Stutzman feels placing his young athletes in an environment where they can be surrounded by studious students pays off both on and off the mat.