EDINBORO, Pa. (April 3, 2013) – After being named the EWL Wrestler of the Year last week, Edinboro's Mitchell Port has now been selected the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Wrestler of the Year.  Edinboro collected two of the three major awards presented by the conference.  Tim Flynn was voted the PSAC Coach of the Year.  This marks the 14^th straight year that an Edinboro wrestler has been selected the Wrestler of the Year.
 
Lock Haven's Dan Neff was named the PSAC Freshman of the Year.  Oddly enough, Neff also competed at 141 lbs., as did Port.  In fact, Port defeated Neff in the EWL finals.
 
Less than a week ago Port completed his sophomore season as the runner-up at 141 lbs. at Nationals.  He finished the year with a 34-4 record with six falls, a technical fall and seven major decisions.
 
Port entered Nationals as the number four seed at 141 lbs.  He would extend his consecutive match winning streak to 19 in Des Moines, IA.  The 18^th was a 13-5 major decision over fifth-seeded Evan Henderson of North Carolina in the quarterfinals.  In the semifinals he handed top-seeded Hunter Stieber of Ohio State his first loss of the season, 7-6, to avenge an earlier loss to the Buckeye. 
 
That left Port paired up against second-seeded Kendric Maple of Oklahoma in the finals.  Maple would record the lone takedown of the match in the first period and hold off Port, 4-3. 
 
Port won his first EWL championship with a 6-1 win over Dan Neff of Lock Haven.  He also won his second PSAC championship.  He would finish fifth at the Midlands Championships, battling through a brutal four-match stretch that featured three of the top seven wrestlers at 141 lbs.  He won a 4-0 decision over Henderson, who was ranked fifth at the time, before falling to Maple, 14-11.  He would lose to seventh-ranked Mike Mangrum of Oregon State, 7-5, before winning a 7-0 decision over Henderson in the fifth place match.
 
After missing the UB Open while still rehabilitating following the shoulder surgery, Port made his 2012-13 debut at the MSU Open.  He would finish second, dropping a 12-7 decision to Stieber in the finals.
 
Port will bring a 64-14 career record into his junior season.  He finished with a 30-10 record as a redshirt freshman, reaching the round of 12 in his first trip to Nationals.         
 
Flynn was named the PSAC Coach of the Year for the 11^th time in 15 seasons as Edinboro's head coach.  He guided a young Fighting Scots squad to a 10-6 record in duals.  Edinboro won the PSAC Championship for the 13^th time in Flynn's tenure, along with placing second at the EWL Championships.
 
Flynn once again molded a young team featuring a true freshmen and three redshirt freshmen, plus four sophomores, into a squad that would send five wrestlers to Nationals and end up finishing 14^th.  It marked the eighth straight year Edinboro finished in the top 25 and was the highest finish since the 2009 squad placed sixth.
           
Flynn has now been named either the EWL or PSAC Coach of the Year in all but three of his seasons as Edinboro's head coach.