Mekhi Lewis Season 2017-18

2019 National Champion (165-pounds)
2019 NCAA Championships' Most Outstanding Wrestler
Two-Time National Finalist (165-pounds, 174-pounds)
2023 NCAA All-American (174-pounds, 4th)
Four-time NCAA Qualifier
2019, 2022, & 2023 ACC Champion
2019 & 2022 ACC Wrestler of the Year
2018 Junior World Champion (74 kg)
2018 Junior World Team Member (74 kg)
 
2022-2023: NCAA All-American 4th Place... Seventh wrestler in program history to become three-time All-American... Only wrestler in program history to place top-four in each of NCAA appearances... ACC Champion... Went 22-3 on season and placed second at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational... 

2021-22: NCAA Runner-Up… ACC Champion… Southeast Open Champion… Finished the season with four falls, four tech falls and five major decisions… Scored a fall over Logan Massa (Michigan) in NCAA semifinals to become Tech's first two-time national finalist... Finished the season with a record of 24-2.

2020-21: NCAA Qualifier… Went 2-0 at NCAA Championships before medically withdrawing from tournament… Earned an at-large bid to 2021 NCAA Championships after medically withdrawing from ACC Championships… Went 10-2 starting at 165 pounds… Both losses were injury defaults… Was unbeaten until the last dual of the year versus Pitt when he had to take an injury default… Had one 28 straight collegiate matches dating back to the 2018-19 season before the injury default to Pitt… Was the No. 1 ranked wrestler at 165 pounds by InterMat, FloWrestling and TrackWrestling from the start of the year to the Pitt dual… Defeated NC State’s Thomas Bullard via 5-0 decision in their dual match… Held on to a 4-3 decision over Kennedy Monday of North Carolina… Defeated Virginia’s Jake Keating in an 8-2 decision in the Commonwealth Clash dual… Won his first collegiate match in over a year via 13-4 major decision in the season opener versus Campbell.
 
2019-20: Took an Olympic redshirt to train for 2020 Olympic Team Trials.
 
2018-19: NCAA Champion … ACC Champion … 2019 ACC Wrestler of the Year … Captured Virginia Tech wrestling’s first individual national championship at the 2019 NCAA Championships as the No. 8 seed … Defeated top-seeded Alex Marinelli of Iowa in the quarterfinals (3-1), the No. 4 seed Evan Wick of Wisconsin in the semis (5-2) and the No. 2 seed, two-time defending national champion Vincenzo Joseph of Penn State, in the final (7-1) … Pinned Virginia's Cam Coy (6:49) and beat Army's Cael McCormick by a 4-1 decision in his first two matches at NCAAs ... Was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Wrestler by the NWCA, joining Cael Sanderson (Iowa State, 1999) as the only freshmen to win the award … The fourth ACC wrestler and the first since Darrion Caldwell (NC State, 2009) to be named Outstanding Wrestler … Was the top seed at the 2019 ACC Championships in Blacksburg and went 2-0 to win the conference title … Went 5-0 in ACC duals … Placed second at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational with ranked wins over Northern Iowa’s Bryce Steiert, Wyoming’s Branson Ashworth and Brown’s Jonathan Viruet … Went 4-0 to win the 165-pound title at the Hokie Open … Racked up 13 bonus point victories … Won a gold medal at the 2018 Junior World Championships at 74 kg … Had two tech falls and win by fall before beating Azerbaijan’s Abubakar Abakarov by a 5-1 decision in the finals ... Defeated Wyoming's Hayden Hastings, Iowa's Alex Marinelli, Oklahoma State's Travis Wittlake and Iowa's Jeremiah Moody en route to winning the Junior World Team Trials.
 
2017-18: Redshirted … Went 28-2 overall with 19 bonus point victories wrestling unattached at 165 pounds … Ranked second on The Open Mat’s list of top redshirting freshmen in the nation … Only two losses of the season came at the Southern Scuffle against Lock Haven’s Chance Marsteller, who finished fourth at the 2018 NCAA Championships … Went 6-2 against wrestlers that qualified for nationals … Took first in five of the six open tournaments he competed in … Registered two tech falls and two wins by fall as part of a 5-0 showing at the Hokie Open … Pinned Clarion’s Paul Zacherl and defeated Duke’s Zach Finesilver by decision, 8-4, at the Wolfpack Open … Had two pins and a major decision at the Storm Open … Placed fourth at the prestigious Southern Scuffle with wins over Lehigh’s Gordon Wolf, a 10-3 major decision, and Keilan Torres of Northern Colorado, a 3-2 decision … Went 4-0 at the Appalachian State Open … Registered two falls and two major decisions at the Edinboro Open.
 
High School: Lettered four times for Coach Shaun Cleary at Bound Brook HS … Four-time district champion … Four-time region champion … Two- time state champion, once at 145 pounds and once at 160 pounds … Member of the Wrestling USA 2017 High School All-American team.
 
Personal: Born April 29, 1999 in New Brunswick, NJ … The son of Keith and Charlotte Lewis … Has four siblings, Keith Jr., Mark, Adriana, and Sadie … Majoring in university studies.