Schalles Award


Established in 1999, both Schalles awards, one for the best collegiate pinner in America and the other, for the best scholastic pinner, are annually presented by WIN Magazine, Cliff Keen Athletics and the NWCA. The award is named after Wade Schalles, one of American wrestling's most storied pinners and a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. During his collegiate career Mr. Schalles set the NCAA record at 109 pins. No Division I wrestler prior to that time and only Gene Mills since has ever reached the century mark.


Schalles Award winners