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2025-26 Cowboy Wrestling Roster
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Figueroa, Richard

Richard Figueroa
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Sanger, California
- High School:
- Selma
Bio
2024-25 (Arizona State): Finished the season at 17-4 and went a perfect 12-0 in dual matches … Placed third at the Big 12 Championships in the 125-pound bracket … Was ranked in the top three of the national rankings all season … Named Big 12 Wrestler of the Week after top-10 wins over Sheldon Seymour (Lehigh) and Jett Strickenberger (West Virginia).
2023-24 (Arizona State): Won the 125-pound NCAA Championship, defeating Iowa’s Drake Ayala in the final … Went 5-0 at the NCAA Championships, with a win over top-ranked Braeden Davis (Penn State) … Named the 2024 Pac-12 Wrestler of the Year, finishing off his 15-5 season … Won the 125-pound Pac-12 title to help propel the Sun Devils to a Pac-12 title … Earned NWCA Scholar All-American status
2022-23 (Arizona State): Finished the season unbeaten in 14 bouts, with three of his wins coming with bonus points … Won the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational at 125 pounds, winning a bracket that included ’22 U.S. Open champion and NCAA qualifier Matt Ramos (Purdue) … His 5-0 run at the CKLV earned him Pac-12 Wrestler of the Week honors … Named to Amateur Wrestling News’ 2023 All-Rookie Team.
2021-22 (Redshirt Year) (Arizona State): Went 3-0 in open tournaments in his redshirt season with the Sun Devils … Won the Last Chance Open … Took bronze at the Junior Pan-American Games … Competed at the UWW Junior World Championships in Russia.
High School: No. 1 pound-for-pound recruit in America coming out of high school and ranked the No. 2 recruit by MatScout after just two losses in his high school career … Won three state titles at Selma High School … Took gold at 57-kilograms at UWW Junior Nationals … Won the Zink Classic, Doc Buchannan and the Five Countries before his first state title at 106 pounds … Took silver at the Cadet World Championships … Won a Super 32 belt and a FloNationals title.
2023-24 (Arizona State): Won the 125-pound NCAA Championship, defeating Iowa’s Drake Ayala in the final … Went 5-0 at the NCAA Championships, with a win over top-ranked Braeden Davis (Penn State) … Named the 2024 Pac-12 Wrestler of the Year, finishing off his 15-5 season … Won the 125-pound Pac-12 title to help propel the Sun Devils to a Pac-12 title … Earned NWCA Scholar All-American status
2022-23 (Arizona State): Finished the season unbeaten in 14 bouts, with three of his wins coming with bonus points … Won the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational at 125 pounds, winning a bracket that included ’22 U.S. Open champion and NCAA qualifier Matt Ramos (Purdue) … His 5-0 run at the CKLV earned him Pac-12 Wrestler of the Week honors … Named to Amateur Wrestling News’ 2023 All-Rookie Team.
2021-22 (Redshirt Year) (Arizona State): Went 3-0 in open tournaments in his redshirt season with the Sun Devils … Won the Last Chance Open … Took bronze at the Junior Pan-American Games … Competed at the UWW Junior World Championships in Russia.
High School: No. 1 pound-for-pound recruit in America coming out of high school and ranked the No. 2 recruit by MatScout after just two losses in his high school career … Won three state titles at Selma High School … Took gold at 57-kilograms at UWW Junior Nationals … Won the Zink Classic, Doc Buchannan and the Five Countries before his first state title at 106 pounds … Took silver at the Cadet World Championships … Won a Super 32 belt and a FloNationals title.
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