Parents: Beth and Bill Higgins
Major: Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Junior Patrick Higgins will compete at 133 pounds once again for the Nittany Lions. Higgins has battled in open tournaments in each of the last two years and redshirted in 2015-16.
Year-by-Year:
2017-18: Collected a 3-4 mark in open tournaments in 2017-18...Notched his first career major...Competed at 133 pounds.
2016-17: Posted a 2-4 record in open tournaments in 2016-17...Reached round of 12 in Keystone Classic...Picked up a pin as well.
2015-16: Redshirt season...Went 3-6 at 125 in open tournaments with one pin.
High School/Personal:
Wrestled at Woodstown High School in New Jersey...Collected well over 100 wins during his career (130-24 overall), setting school records in wins with 130, which is also the second highest ever in Salem County...Earned eight varsity letters as an athlete, four each in wrestling and cross country...Left WHS with over 80 career pins and the fastest pin in school history (seven seconds)...Was WHS’s Outstanding Student in October of 2014 and was a member of the National Honor Society...Earned a 3.5 GPA throughout high school.
| Career Statistics | |||||||
| YEAR | OVERALL | DUALS (B10) | TRN (B10/NCAA) | F | TF | M | Pts. |
| 2015-16 | Red Shirt Season | ||||||
| 2016-17 | 2-4 | 0-0 (0-0) | 2-4 (0-0/0-0) | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0 |
| 2017-18 | 3-4 | 0-0 (0-0) | 3-4 (0-0/0-0) | 0-2 | 1-0 | 0-1 | 0 |
| Career | 5-8 | 0-0 (0-0) | 5-8 (0-0/0-0) | 1-4 | 1-0 | 0-2 | 0 |