2020-21 Wrestling Roster

Skyler Lykins

  • Weight 165
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown Franklin, Ind.
  • Highschool Franklin
  • Major Petroleum Engineering

Biography

2020-21: Captain … Second-Team All-RMAC … Went 4-2 overall at 165 pounds … Had one fall … Finished third at NCAA Super Region VI Championships … Ranked as high as #8 by the NWCA … Ended his career with a 60-28 record … Ranks sixth all-time at Mines with 22 falls.

2019-20: RMAC First-Team All-Academic … Second-Team All-RMAC …Went 19-6 overall … Was a team-best 10-1 in duals starting every meet at 165 … Led the team in multiple categories including dual points (38), wins vs. D-II wrestlers (17-6), RMAC dual wins (6-1), and decisions (9) … Had four falls and four majors … Was the UNK Open Elite runner-up … Placed sixth at NCAA Super Region VI Championships and seventh at the Midwest Classic.

2018-19: NCAA qualifier … Second-Team All-RMAC …NWCA All-Academic ... RMAC Academic Honor Roll member … Went 12-9 overall as Mines’ starter at 157, including 8-4 in duals and 5-1 vs. the RMAC … Was the runner-up at NCAA Super Region VI Championships to qualify for his first national meet.

2017-18: Redshirted.

2015-16 and 2016-17: Away from Mines serving a mission to Brazil.

2014-15: Co-led the team with 25 wins (25-11) … Second on the team with 12 falls … Won the 149-pound bracket at the Hastings Cusatis Open … Was fourth at the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Open … Went 5-3 against RMAC opposition with a pin.

High School: Lykins lettered four times in wrestling, four times in cross country and three times in track as a prep at Franklin High School in Franklin, Ind. … Three-time state qualifier… Finished third as a junior at 132 pounds… Finished sixth as a senior at 138 pounds… A four-time Johnson Country Champion… A four-time Mid-State Conference Champion… Winner of the Indiana High School Athletic Association Ward. E. Brown Mental Attitude Award as a senior… Team Mental Attitude Award winner as a junior and senior… Led team to runner-up finish at the IHSAA Individual State championships…  Led team to IHSWCA Team State Championships as a senior… Led team to fifth place at the IHSAA Individual State championships as a junior… Led team to runner-up finish at the IHWSCA Team State Championships as a junior… Led team to three consecutive conference titles… Three-straight sectional titles… Helped team to 2013 Mid-State Conference Championship… Named Academic All-State in wrestling and track & field as a junior… Named Academic All-State in cross country, wrestling and track & field as a senior… Member of the National Honor Society… Member of the Spanish Honor Society… Plans to major in Petroleum Engineering at Mines.

Historical Player Information

  • 2014-15Freshman

    149 lbs

  • 2017-18Sophomore

    149 lbs

  • 2018-19Redshirt Sophomore

    157 lbs

  • 2019-20Redshirt Junior

    165 lbs
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    2020-21Redshirt Senior

    165 lbs
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