 Lehigh is considered one of the best private schools in the country for wrestling, having had 28 National NCAA individual champions, 137 NCAA All-Americans, 16 top five NCAA team finishes, 34-time EIWA Champions, and 203 individual EIWA Champions.Its last national champion was Darian Cruz in 2017.Lehigh alumni coach wrestling at many institutions, including Jason Kutz (1998), head wrestling coach at East Stroudsburg University; Chris Ayres (1999), head wrestling coach at Princeton University; Cory Cooperman (2006), assistant wrestling coach at Rutgers University; Troy Letters (2006), and Derek Zinck (2006), assistant wrestling coaches at Princeton University.