Oklahoma State University Athletics
Tyrone Lewis
September 25, 2008 | Cowboy Wrestling
Lewis' NCAA Team Championships
2003 - Wrestler at 165 pounds
2004 - Wrestler at 165 pounds
Lewis' Big 12 Team Championships
2001 - Wrestler at 174 pounds
2003 - Wrestler at 165 pounds
2004 - Wrestler at 165 pounds
Lewis' Big 12 Individual Championships
2001 - 174 pounds
2004 - 165 pounds
Lewis' International Wrestling Experience
2008 U.S. Nationals runner-up.
Ranked No. 2 in the U.S. at 74 kg/163 pounds in 2006-07.
2006 U.S. World Team Trials runner-up and third-place finisher at U.S. National Championships.
2005 University World Team Trials champion.
Four-time Cowboy All-American Tyrone Lewis is in his first year as an assistant coach at his alma mater after being named to the position in August of 2008.
While wrestling for the Cowboys from 2001-04, Lewis won Big 12 individual championships in 2001 and 2004 and he compiled a 120-15 record that included 38 falls. He finished fifth at the NCAA championship in 2001, was third in 2002, fifth in 2003 and was the national runner-up in 2004. He was a three-year captain and leader of NCAA champion teams in 2003 and 2004.
After graduating from OSU in 2004 with a degree in secondary education/history, Lewis served as a coach for the Stillwater-based Gator Wrestling Club from 2005-06 before taking his first college assistant job at Oklahoma City University, where he helped the Stars to a 12th-place finish at the NAIA Championship and coached a trio of All-Americans.
Though he was out of coaching in 2007-08 while training full time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Lewis returned to Stillwater to assist with the Gator Club.
Lewis' name is known in national wrestling circles as he was the 2008 runner-up at both the U.S. Olympic Trials and at U.S. Nationals in the 74 kg/163 pound weight class. He is an alternate for the 2008 Olympic team.
Lewis competed on both the national and international levels after leaving OSU, winning the Sunkist Kids Tournament in 2007 and taking fifth at the Ivan Yarygin Tournament in Siberia. He represented the United States at the 2005 World University Games in Izmir, Turkey and was a training partner for the U.S. Senior World Team as it competed at the 2005 FILA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
A native of El Reno, Okla., Lewis graduated from El Reno HS in 1999 as one of the nation's top prep wrestlers. He was a high school national champion as well as a junior national champion.
