Return to Rider University Homepage Directions | Campus Safety | Calendars | Directory | Libraries | Web Mail
Prospective StudentsCurrent StudentsAlumniCommunity PartnersParents & FamilyFaculty & Staff
About Rider AcademicsOur FacultyAdmissionsAthleticsStudent Life
Westminster College of the Arts

Francis Dunn

  • Sport: Wrestling
  • Date Inducted: February 2006

Dunn won three individual conference championships and earned All-America honors as a senior. He helped the 1997 Rider wrestling team reach a national ranking of seventh in Division I. Three of the four teams he was a member of won a Conference Championship.
“I was very excited when I got the call,” said Dunn.  “I was well aware of the Hall and the great wrestlers who are in there, and sometimes I wondered if I would ever get in.  My family was very happy to hear the news and has been making a big deal about it ever since.”

Eighth in the nation at 142 lbs. in 1997
Defeated Casey Cunningham (Central Michigan) 5-2
Defeated Brad Fenske (Army) 3-2
Lost to Roger Chandler (Indiana) 12-2
Defeated Tom Tomeo (Clarion) 2-0
Lost to Jason Ramsetter (California State Bakersfield) 6-0
Lost to Brendan Buckley (Fresno State) 12-2
Inducted into Rider Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006