2023-24 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 92 kg/202 lbs.

Years on Team USA: 6 (2018-24)

Residence: Tempe, Ariz.

Club: Sunkist Kids

Regional Training Center: Sunkist Kids

College: Arizona State

High School: Bellflower, Calif. (St. John Bosco)

Born: May 11, 1997, in Bellflower, Calif.

Height: 6-1

Past Age-Group World Teams

2017 Junior Worlds (Silver at 84 kg), 2016 Junior Worlds (7th at 84 kg), 2015 Junior Worlds (10th at 84 kg)

Career Notes

2023 Final X champion
2022 Pan American Championship champion
2019 U.S. Open champion
2022 and 2023 World Team Trials
Third at 2021 Olympic Team Trials
2017 Junior World Championships silver medalist
2018 and 2022 Final X runner-up
2022 U.S. Open runner-up
Two-time NCAA champion for Arizona State (2018 and 2019)

Career Biography

2023: Imre Polyk & Jnos Varga Memorial champion (Hungary)… Final X champion… World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion…. Second in U.S. Open… Second in Ibrahim Moustafa International (Egypt)… Third in Zagreb Open (Croatia)…

2022: Runner-up at Final X… World Team Trials Challenge champion… Pan American Championships champion… Third at Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix (Russia)

2021: Third at Olympic Team Trials… Matteo Pellicone International champion (Italy)… Poland Open champion… Third at Henri Deglane Challenge (France)…

2019: U.S. Open champion… Second at World Team Trials Challenge Tournament…

2018: Final X runner-up… World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion…

2017: UWW Junior World silver medalist… UWW Junior World Team Trials champion… UWW Junior Nationals champion…

2016: Seventh at UWW Junior World Championships… UWW Junior World Team Trials champion… UWW Junior Nationals champion…

2015: Tenth at UWW Junior Worlds… UWW Junior World Team Trials champion… Second at Grand Prix of Spain

2014: Third in UWW Junior Nationals in Greco-Roman…

College: Two-time NCAA champion for Arizona State (2018, 2019)… Third in the 2017 NCAA Championships… Coached by Zeke Jones… Graduated with a bachelor’s degree in multi/interdisciplinary studies

High School: Three-time California state champion (2012, 2014 and 2015)… Coached by Omar Delgado at St. John Bosco High School… First-team ASICS All-American… 2015 ASICS High School Wrestler of the Year…

Age-Group Achievements: 2014 Junior Folkstyle Nationals champion… 2013 Cadet Nationals champion in freestyle and Greco-Roman… 2012 Cadet Nationals champion…

Personal: Brother Anthony also competed for Arizona State… Wife is Kindra…

Twitter: @z_money_97

Instagram: z_money_97

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