Why this team is in the Hall of Fame
The program's first conference championship team, with five individual conference champions on one roster.
The season
1988 Wrestling Team played its title 1987–88 season. Inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame in 2016.
After Porter
Three wrestlers from the roster later coached at the high-school level in the Valley, all crediting the same season for how they teach the sport.
In their own words
“We didn't know we were building anything. We just knew we didn't want to lose to the same two teams again.”
— a team member, at the 2016 induction ceremony
What current Ironclads can take from this
Current Porter wrestling players still hear about this season, usually as an example that a roster without a single future professional can still win the whole thing on chemistry and depth. The team's own account of the run — kept in the athletics department's archive — is used in a leadership talk to the current roster most preseasons.
Common questions
How does someone get nominated? Anyone can nominate a candidate through the athletics site; athletes become eligible ten years after their last season, while coaches and teams are considered on their own timeline.
Where is this inductee recognized on campus? Every inductee is added to the physical Hall of Fame display in the Ironhouse Athletic Center concourse with a short citation, alongside a profile on the athletics site for their induction year.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. 1988 Wrestling Team is an invented team; every statistic, quote, and date on this page is fictional.