Spencer Lee Withdraws From Olympic Trials
Spencer Lee Withdraws From Olympic Trials
Three-time NCAA champion, Spencer Lee, has announced that he will withdraw from the 2021 Olympic Trials.
Three-time world champion, Spencer Lee, announced on Twitter today that he will withdraw from the 2021 Olympic Trials.
Go Hawks pic.twitter.com/j3TXlaBUKR
— Spencer Lee (@LeeSpencerlee36) March 26, 2021
After winning his third NCAA title last weekend in St. Louis, Lee announced that he had been wrestling with two torn ACLs. The first he tore in the 2019 NCAA finals against Jack Mueller, and the second less than weeks prior in the Big Ten Championships finals against Devin Schroder.
Spencer Lee just won his third NCAA wrestling championship at Iowa, and he says he did it with no ACLs 😳 pic.twitter.com/OVIBtfibCf
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) March 21, 2021
Lee won a Cadet world championship in 2014 and then won back-to-back Junior world titles in 2015 and 2016. Most recently, he won the 2019 Senior Nationals beating Darian Cruz, Vito Arujau, and Nathan Tomasello.