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Jersey Number 36
Ben Honis
- Position:
- Tight End
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 215
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Jamesville, N.Y.
- High School:
- Jamesville-DeWitt
Bio
Career Overview: Graduate transfer from Cornell University where he was a four-year member of the Big Red wrestling team ... Joined the Orange at the start of 2019 preseason camp ... Played in nine games on special teams in his only season of college football and had one tackle ... As a wrestler, posted a career record of 71-36 (.664), including a 30-16 record with 17 bonus wins as a sophomore in 2016-17 ... As a senior, finished eighth at 197 pounds at the 2019 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championship to earn All-America honors.
Redshirt Senior Year (2019): Appeared in nine games ... Member of the kickoff return and kickoff coverage teams ... Made his college football debut versus Western Michigan (9/21) ... At NC State (10/10), logged one special teams tackle.Â
Senior Year (2018-19 at Cornell): Went 23-7 (.767) with 12 bonus wins at 197 pounds ... Earned All-America honors, finishing eighth at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championship ... Named to the All-Ivy League First Team ... Reached the finals of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) Championship ... Was 11-2 against EIWA opponents and 10-2 in dual meets ... Won the Bearcat Open with three consecutive wins by fall.
Junior Year (2017-18 at Cornell): Amassed a record of 10-7 (.588) on the season, splitting time between 197 pounds and heavyweight ... Was 4-4 in dual-meet competition, including a 1-2 record in Ivy League action.
Sophomore Year (2016-17 at Cornell): NCAA qualifier after placing third at the EIWA Championship ... Posted a 30-16 (.652) record with 17 bonus wins ... Finished second at the Binghamton Open … Took third at the New York State Intercollegiate Wrestling Championship.
Freshman Year (2015-16 at Cornell): Carded an 8-6 (.571) overall record, including placing second at Brockport and collecting three wins in both the Southern Scuffle and Edinboro Open.
High School: Linebacker for four seasons under head coach Eric Ormond at Jamesville-DeWitt ... Also wrestled and played lacrosse ... Four-year wrestling team captain ... Two-time Section III champion ... Was 34-2 (.944) as a senior with 23 of his victories coming by fall ... Close defenseman on J-D's 2015 state runner-up lacrosse team.
Personal: Benjamin Konrad Honis ... Born in March 1996 in Syracuse, New York ... Son of Kurt and Maria Honis ... Father, Kurt, was a four-year member of the Syracuse wrestling team and was one of the Orange’s tri-captains as a senior in 1983-84 ... One brother, one sister ... Graduated from Cornell with a bachelor’s degree in applied economics ... Competed in 2019 as a graduate student in Syracuse’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
Redshirt Senior Year (2019): Appeared in nine games ... Member of the kickoff return and kickoff coverage teams ... Made his college football debut versus Western Michigan (9/21) ... At NC State (10/10), logged one special teams tackle.Â
Senior Year (2018-19 at Cornell): Went 23-7 (.767) with 12 bonus wins at 197 pounds ... Earned All-America honors, finishing eighth at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championship ... Named to the All-Ivy League First Team ... Reached the finals of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) Championship ... Was 11-2 against EIWA opponents and 10-2 in dual meets ... Won the Bearcat Open with three consecutive wins by fall.
Junior Year (2017-18 at Cornell): Amassed a record of 10-7 (.588) on the season, splitting time between 197 pounds and heavyweight ... Was 4-4 in dual-meet competition, including a 1-2 record in Ivy League action.
Sophomore Year (2016-17 at Cornell): NCAA qualifier after placing third at the EIWA Championship ... Posted a 30-16 (.652) record with 17 bonus wins ... Finished second at the Binghamton Open … Took third at the New York State Intercollegiate Wrestling Championship.
Freshman Year (2015-16 at Cornell): Carded an 8-6 (.571) overall record, including placing second at Brockport and collecting three wins in both the Southern Scuffle and Edinboro Open.
High School: Linebacker for four seasons under head coach Eric Ormond at Jamesville-DeWitt ... Also wrestled and played lacrosse ... Four-year wrestling team captain ... Two-time Section III champion ... Was 34-2 (.944) as a senior with 23 of his victories coming by fall ... Close defenseman on J-D's 2015 state runner-up lacrosse team.
Personal: Benjamin Konrad Honis ... Born in March 1996 in Syracuse, New York ... Son of Kurt and Maria Honis ... Father, Kurt, was a four-year member of the Syracuse wrestling team and was one of the Orange’s tri-captains as a senior in 1983-84 ... One brother, one sister ... Graduated from Cornell with a bachelor’s degree in applied economics ... Competed in 2019 as a graduate student in Syracuse’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
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