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Rayvon Foley
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Wt.:
- 133
- Hometown:
- Ann Arbor, Mich.
- High School:
- Pioneer
Bio
2021-22 (Redshirt Senior) 29-6 Overall, 13-1Â Duals:Â 133-pound champion at both Navy Classic and Southern Scuffle ... placed second at Michigan State Open ... Faced two ranked foes in first weekend at MSU Open, defeating No. 24 Kyle Burwick in quarterfinals (7-2 dec.) and losing finals to No. 23 Tony Madrigal (4-3 dec.) ... Posted bonus-point victories in fi ve-straight dual matches and 16-straight overall victories before losing to No. 18 Brock Hudkins (Indiana) ... Named B1G Wrestler of the Week on Feb. 16 after posting back-to-back top-10 wins (No. 8 Chris Cannon of Northwestern, No. 7 Dylan Ragusin of Michigan)... Reached 100 career attached wins with B1G Tourney first-round technical fall over King Sandoval ... Placed 6th at 2022 B1G Championships with 3-2 record as 4-seed, medically forfeiting 6th-place match to rest shoulder injury ... 5-4 vs. ranked opponents this season ... Earned 8-seed at 2022 NCAA Championships... Went 1-2 at the NCAA Championships, winning by medical forfeit in the first consolation round.
2020-21 (Redshirt Junior) 10-6 Overall, 4-3 Duals: Recipient of the MSU Wrestler Perseverance Award ... Earned MSU Athletics Honor Roll accolades ... After redshirting previous season, had a smashing return to action in the 2020-21 season, holding a Top 10 ranking throughout the season, and entered the B1G Championships as the No. 5 seed, and went on to finish third ... Finished season with a 10-6 record, ranking second on the team in overall wins, as well as tied for third on the team with a 4-3 duals mark, and fourth with 15 dual points ... Led the team with two tech. falls, as well as sharing the team lead with two major decisions ... Erupted back into action with a 17-0 tech. fall at 4:35 over King Sandoval of Maryland in the Maryland/Minnesota tri-meet in East Lansing on Jan. 16, before a hard-fought loss to No. 22 Patrick McKee of Minnesota later in the day ... Was edged, 5-4, by No. 12 Malik Heinselman of Ohio State in OSU dual at Columbus, Ohio on Jan. 29 ... Got back in win column with 11-0 major decision over Indiana’s Jacob Moran on Feb. 6 in Indiana/Nebraska tri-meet at Bloomington, Ind., before a wild, 14-13, loss to No. 6 Liam Cronin of Nebraska later same day ... Reeled off four-straight wins overlapping last two weeks of regular-season action with first two matches of B1G Championships, with a 10-4 victory over No. 9 Devin Schroder of Purdue and a 7-2 decision over Jack Medley of Michigan in regular-season home duals ... Was the No. 5 seed for the B1G Championships and opened the conference meet with an 11-1 major decision over 12th-seeded Jacob Moran of Indiana, and then posted a 20-4 tech. fall over 13th-seeded Dylan Shawyer of Rutgers, before being defeated by top-seed, No. 1 ranked and eventual B1G and NCAA champion Spencer Lee of Iowa ... In the consolation bracket, bounced back with a 6-2 decision over eighth-seeded and No. 11 ranked Michael DeAugustino of Northwestern and then an 8-2 decision over third-seeded and No. 10 ranked Malik Heinselman of Ohio State in the third-place bout ... Qualifying for his third NCAA Championships, earned the No. 8 seed and opened with a 14-0 major decision over No. 25 Logan Treaster of Navy, before getting edged in a 2-1 decision by No. 9 seed Devin Schroder of Purdue ... In rematch with Heinselman, posted a 6-3 decision, before being knocked off by No. 17 Killian Cardinale of West Virginia.
2019-20Â (Redshirt) 4-0 Overall, 0-0 Duals, 4-0 Open Tournaments: Competed in just one tournament during his redshirt campaign ... Went 4-0 at the Storm Open on Nov. 24 with a technical fall and two major decisions.Â
2018-19 (Sophomore) 36-6 Overall, 16-2 Duals, 20-4 Tournaments: NCAA All-American at 125 pounds following a seventh place finish at the NCAA Championships ... Led the team in wins with 36 ... Scored 67 points in dual matches ... Had one win by fall, 10 by tech fall, and 14 by major decision ... Finished the season ranked No. 7 by FloWrestling ... Took first at the MSU Open and the Navy Classic ... Placed second at the Reno Tournament of Champions, losing to only Nick Piccinnini of Oklahoma State ... Placed sixth at the Big Ten Championships after he was forced to medically forfeit ... Opened season on a 15-match winning streak and later had a record of 26-1 ... Went 5-2 at the NCAA Championships with wins over three ranked opponents (Drew Mattin, Sean Russell, Ronnie Bresser).
2017-18 (Freshman) 28-11 Overall, 13-4 Duals, 15-7 Tournaments: Named Spartans' Outstanding Wrestler ... Team leader in wins (28), dual wins (13) and dual points (46) ... Only the third true freshman Spartan since 1978 to qualify for NCAA Championships ... Ended the season ranked at No. 16 by InterMat ... Finished his first Big Ten Championships appearance in seventh place, the highest Spartan finish of the tournament ... Made the finals in his first collegiate open tournament, the MSU Open, going 4-1 to earn second place in the freshman and sophomore division ... Won the Eastern Michigan Open title in the freshman and sophomore division, recording a 4-0 record and a major decision in the final bout ... Posted a victory in his first collegiate dual, winning 9-6 against Drew Hildebrandt of No. 17 Central Michigan to give the Spartans a 3-0 lead ... Went 4-2 at the Cliff Keen Invitational ... Went on a five-match dual win streak, picking up a major decision and technical fall through non-conference duals ... Earned first Big Ten dual win against Devin Schnupp of No. 1 Penn State, 6-2 ... Collected the first win over a ranked opponent of his career with a 7-1 decision over No. 13 Luke Welch of Purdue ... Defeated his second ranked opponent of the season with a 10-3 decision over No. 9 Drew Mattin of Michigan ... Went 3-2 at Big Ten Championships ... Narrowly fell to No. 1-seed Darian Cruz of Lehigh at NCAA Championships, finishing the tournament 0-2.
PREP: Four-time varsity letter winner ... Compiled a 53-3 record his senior year ... 2017 State Champion, becoming the first champion from Pioneer High School since 1989 ... Named Ann Arbor News Wrestler of the Year two years in row (2016, 2017) ... Elected captain of the squad ... 2017 Junior Greco-Roman National champion at 120 pounds.
PERSONAL: Born July 21, 1999...Son of Tracey Foley and Erica Cobb...Interdisciplinary studies major
2020-21 (Redshirt Junior) 10-6 Overall, 4-3 Duals: Recipient of the MSU Wrestler Perseverance Award ... Earned MSU Athletics Honor Roll accolades ... After redshirting previous season, had a smashing return to action in the 2020-21 season, holding a Top 10 ranking throughout the season, and entered the B1G Championships as the No. 5 seed, and went on to finish third ... Finished season with a 10-6 record, ranking second on the team in overall wins, as well as tied for third on the team with a 4-3 duals mark, and fourth with 15 dual points ... Led the team with two tech. falls, as well as sharing the team lead with two major decisions ... Erupted back into action with a 17-0 tech. fall at 4:35 over King Sandoval of Maryland in the Maryland/Minnesota tri-meet in East Lansing on Jan. 16, before a hard-fought loss to No. 22 Patrick McKee of Minnesota later in the day ... Was edged, 5-4, by No. 12 Malik Heinselman of Ohio State in OSU dual at Columbus, Ohio on Jan. 29 ... Got back in win column with 11-0 major decision over Indiana’s Jacob Moran on Feb. 6 in Indiana/Nebraska tri-meet at Bloomington, Ind., before a wild, 14-13, loss to No. 6 Liam Cronin of Nebraska later same day ... Reeled off four-straight wins overlapping last two weeks of regular-season action with first two matches of B1G Championships, with a 10-4 victory over No. 9 Devin Schroder of Purdue and a 7-2 decision over Jack Medley of Michigan in regular-season home duals ... Was the No. 5 seed for the B1G Championships and opened the conference meet with an 11-1 major decision over 12th-seeded Jacob Moran of Indiana, and then posted a 20-4 tech. fall over 13th-seeded Dylan Shawyer of Rutgers, before being defeated by top-seed, No. 1 ranked and eventual B1G and NCAA champion Spencer Lee of Iowa ... In the consolation bracket, bounced back with a 6-2 decision over eighth-seeded and No. 11 ranked Michael DeAugustino of Northwestern and then an 8-2 decision over third-seeded and No. 10 ranked Malik Heinselman of Ohio State in the third-place bout ... Qualifying for his third NCAA Championships, earned the No. 8 seed and opened with a 14-0 major decision over No. 25 Logan Treaster of Navy, before getting edged in a 2-1 decision by No. 9 seed Devin Schroder of Purdue ... In rematch with Heinselman, posted a 6-3 decision, before being knocked off by No. 17 Killian Cardinale of West Virginia.
2019-20Â (Redshirt) 4-0 Overall, 0-0 Duals, 4-0 Open Tournaments: Competed in just one tournament during his redshirt campaign ... Went 4-0 at the Storm Open on Nov. 24 with a technical fall and two major decisions.Â
2018-19 (Sophomore) 36-6 Overall, 16-2 Duals, 20-4 Tournaments: NCAA All-American at 125 pounds following a seventh place finish at the NCAA Championships ... Led the team in wins with 36 ... Scored 67 points in dual matches ... Had one win by fall, 10 by tech fall, and 14 by major decision ... Finished the season ranked No. 7 by FloWrestling ... Took first at the MSU Open and the Navy Classic ... Placed second at the Reno Tournament of Champions, losing to only Nick Piccinnini of Oklahoma State ... Placed sixth at the Big Ten Championships after he was forced to medically forfeit ... Opened season on a 15-match winning streak and later had a record of 26-1 ... Went 5-2 at the NCAA Championships with wins over three ranked opponents (Drew Mattin, Sean Russell, Ronnie Bresser).
2017-18 (Freshman) 28-11 Overall, 13-4 Duals, 15-7 Tournaments: Named Spartans' Outstanding Wrestler ... Team leader in wins (28), dual wins (13) and dual points (46) ... Only the third true freshman Spartan since 1978 to qualify for NCAA Championships ... Ended the season ranked at No. 16 by InterMat ... Finished his first Big Ten Championships appearance in seventh place, the highest Spartan finish of the tournament ... Made the finals in his first collegiate open tournament, the MSU Open, going 4-1 to earn second place in the freshman and sophomore division ... Won the Eastern Michigan Open title in the freshman and sophomore division, recording a 4-0 record and a major decision in the final bout ... Posted a victory in his first collegiate dual, winning 9-6 against Drew Hildebrandt of No. 17 Central Michigan to give the Spartans a 3-0 lead ... Went 4-2 at the Cliff Keen Invitational ... Went on a five-match dual win streak, picking up a major decision and technical fall through non-conference duals ... Earned first Big Ten dual win against Devin Schnupp of No. 1 Penn State, 6-2 ... Collected the first win over a ranked opponent of his career with a 7-1 decision over No. 13 Luke Welch of Purdue ... Defeated his second ranked opponent of the season with a 10-3 decision over No. 9 Drew Mattin of Michigan ... Went 3-2 at Big Ten Championships ... Narrowly fell to No. 1-seed Darian Cruz of Lehigh at NCAA Championships, finishing the tournament 0-2.
PREP: Four-time varsity letter winner ... Compiled a 53-3 record his senior year ... 2017 State Champion, becoming the first champion from Pioneer High School since 1989 ... Named Ann Arbor News Wrestler of the Year two years in row (2016, 2017) ... Elected captain of the squad ... 2017 Junior Greco-Roman National champion at 120 pounds.
PERSONAL: Born July 21, 1999...Son of Tracey Foley and Erica Cobb...Interdisciplinary studies major
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