NC State Newsstand: Recapping the 2025 Wolfie Awards
With the 2024-25 school year winding down, NC State held its annual Wolfie Awards inside Reynolds Coliseum on Monday night. The event recognizes the Wolfpack’s best in athletics from the past calendar year and there were several stars of the night.
Women’s cross country’s Grace Hartman and wrestling’s Vince Robinson walked away with the H.C. Kennett Award, the biggest honor of the night that is given to a “superior student-athlete who demonstrates the finest attributes of good sportsmanship and good play.”
Hartman is the only woman in NC State history to earn the ACC Scholar Athlete of the Year award in both cross country and outdoor track and field as she has maintained a 4.0 GPA during her entire Wolfpack tenure. She has also led the Pack in every race she’s competed at the collegiate level, including _
Robinson, meanwhile, claimed the 125-pound national championship in his first season competing for NC State. The redshirt freshman was the first freshman to win the title in his weight class since 2018. He earned seven ranked wins, including a pair of top-10 victories, this past season.
Here’s a look at the rest of the 2025 Wolfie Award winners.
Rookie of the Year: Leah Shakley (women’s swim and dive) and Robinson
Comeback Player of the Year: Matty Singleton (wrestling)
Heart of the Pack Award (being a good teammate with great effort, attitude and mindfulness): Martyna Leoniak (volleyball) and Lance Patterson (men’s track and field)
Kay Yow Award (awarded to a female student-athlete with outstanding athletic and academic achievement, while also demonstrating community service and teamwork): Madison Hayes (women’s basketball)
Chris Combs Award (a male student-athlete that exemplifies Chris Combs through a lifetime of love and passion for their sport with an ability to stay strong through adversity): Isaac Trumble (wrestling)
ACC Scholar Athlete of the Year: Chloe Negrete (gymnastics) and Owen Lloyd (men’s swim and dive)
Individual Performance of the Year: Aziaha James’ (women’s basketball) career-best 36 points to lead the Pack to an 89-83 win over then-No. 10 Duke, and Robinson’s (wrestling) 5-0 trip to the NCAA Championships to claim a national title
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Team Performance of the Year: Women’s basketball’s 104-95 double-overtime win over No. 1 Notre Dame, and men’s soccer’s 2-0 win over Georgetown in the second round of the NCAA Tournament to earn its first Sweet 16 bid in more than 30 years.
Pride of the Pack Award: Brooklyn Holt (women’s soccer) and Caden Tolentino (men’s soccer)
Team of the Year: Women’s basketball after its 17th Sweet 16 appearance, highlighted by an 18-0 home record inside Reynolds Coliseum, and baseball as it made its fourth College World Series appearance in program history.
Chancellor’s Cup (highest GPA and outstanding performance in competition): Men’s cross country and women’s soccer
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The Pack9 has two of the ACC’s strikeout leaders on its pitching staff.
Former NC State wrestling legend Nick Gwiazdowski called it a professional career.
Hayes signed a training camp contract with the Connecticut Sun.
Quote of the day
NC State has emerged as a contender for Germantown (Tenn.) three-star defensive lineman Djidjou Bah. He explained why.
“I actually love NC State,” Bah said. “It’s a very big stadium to be an ACC school. They’ve got a very competitive practice. I got to see them scrimmage. … It was a great experience.”
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