[8] Snyder dominated it with three technical-falls and then a pin in the finals. He is the pitching coach for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). [9] The following year Snyder would become the first American man not only to win back-to-back Yarygin titles, but the only one to win the prestigious tournament more than once at all,[10] earning him Best Foreign Wrestler honors from his Russian hosts. Kyle Snyder refuses to dwell on those 68 seconds. [10], Major League Baseball pitching coaches by team, Kansas City Royals first-round draft picks, "All Time Major League Baseball Players from the Cape Cod League", "Miller, Bard Grabbed In First Round Of MLB Draft", "KC bats explode for win in 28-run affair", "Beckett move prompts Snyder's end: Boston to also make another transaction if Timlin is activated", "Rays name minor league coaching staffs for 2012", "Rays name minor league coaching staffs for 2013", "Rays Find Homegrown Replacement for Allen", "Jim Hickey won't be back as Rays pitching coach, Kyle Snyder to take over", 1999 Major League Baseball draft first round selections, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kyle_Snyder&oldid=981014119, North Carolina Tar Heels baseball players, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Career statistics and player information from, This page was last edited on 29 September 2020, at 19:43.
According to our records, Kyle Snyder is possibly single. [11], In 2017, Snyder defeated Abdulrashid Sadulaev at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships. [23] After fighting off his back and down 4–1, Snyder then ran off 10 unanswered points to secure the victory by technical fall in four minutes and four seconds, his third in his four matches at the tournament. Snyder played MLB for the Kansas City Royals and the Boston Red Sox.
Kyle Ehren Snyder (born September 9, 1977) is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher and current coach. After returning to Ohio State and winning his second consecutive NCAA heavyweight title at the end of an undefeated 2016–2017 wrestling season,[5] Snyder would avenge his loss to Gadson in the finals of America's 2017 World Team Trials, sweeping him with two straight tech-falls and a cumulative score of 23–2. Heavyweight division at just 226 pounds, Snyder was the lightest heavyweight in the field[49] and was named Most Outstanding Wrestler of the tournament. Login He is listed at 6-7 and 225 pounds. Login to add information, pictures and relationships, join in discussions and get credit for your contributions. He graduated from Riverview High School in Sarasota, Florida in 1996. Even giving away more than 30 pounds Snyder was able to end Gwiazdowski's 88-match win streak[29] and earn his first individual NCAA title as a true sophomore.[30]. [58] Snyder however backtracked on his MMA desires. [28] Snyder continued his extraordinary run by returning to Ohio State and rallying for an overtime victory over NC State University's Nick Gwiazdowski, the returning back-to-back heavyweight national champion. Snyder has expressed an interest in Mixed martial arts, wanting to compete in the UFC. After playing sparingly through the 2011 season, for multiple minor league teams, Snyder retired as an active player. Join Facebook to connect with Kyle Snyder and others you may know. Kyle Frederick Snyder (born November 20, 1995) is an American freestyle wrestler. [23][24] Snyder was coached by two former World Champions during his gold medal match: Bill Zadick of the Iowa Hawkeyes, who was a college teammate of Jeff McGinness, the youngest ever American FILA Junior World Champion who won the tournament in 1992,[39] as well as Zeke Jones. We’ll see what happens after that. [8] The Rays promoted him to the Durham Bulls for the 2015 season. [52], In the early minutes of his gold medal Junior World Championships match in 2013, Snyder was thrown to his back by his Armenian opponent, Viktor Kazishvili, and nearly pinned. He played for the Kansas City Royals and the Boston Red Sox. Leave a comment. Kyle Snyder is on Facebook. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens … Help us build our profile of Kyle Snyder! Snyder was the lightest heavyweight in the field at 226 pounds and finished 11–0 on the season. [7], Starting the 2013 season, Snyder was the pitching coach for the Bowling Green Hot Rods (A). [4], Snyder's first full season in the big league was in 2007, when he appeared in 46 games, one more than his previous three professional years combined. [41] Snyder, who competes internationally at 96 kg, lost a tightly contested exhibition match 6–3[42] against Khadzhimurat Gatsalov, the No. [16] He ended his collegiate career as the first wrestler to win the NCAA, World, and Olympic championships as a student athlete. [38], Snyder amassed a 179–0 record in his first three years of high school [18] before becoming the youngest American in over 20 years to win a FILA Junior World Championship in August 2013. In June 2006, Snyder was claimed off waivers by the Boston Red Sox. Entering the game with Boston trailing 8-6 in the 5th, Snyder held the Indians scoreless before David Ortiz hit a walk-off 3-run homer in the bottom of the 9th inning, giving the Red Sox a stunning 9-8 victory. [51] Snyder was well endowed with $250,000 for his 2016 Summer Olympics gold and earlier received $50,000 for his 2015 World Championship, monies he is allowed to keep since the NCAA made an exception to its rules against student-athlete financial compensation for the Fund. [17], In his first three years of high school, Snyder amassed a 179–0 record, won three Prep National Championships, and only conceded a single takedown. Snyder played three years for North Carolina, and in 1998 played collegiate summer baseball for the Chatham Athletics of the Cape Cod Baseball League where he was named the top prospect. [48] Weighing in for the 285 lb. Learn about Kyle Snyder: his birthday, what he did before fame, his family life, fun trivia facts, popularity rankings, and more. [18] Named the national high school wrestler of the year by both Intermat[19] and ASICS,[20] Snyder was also ranked as the #1 pound-for-pound high school wrestler in America by Flowrestling after his junior season. Although Snyder was unable to repeat his gold medal run in 2014, he brought home a bronze medal, and in the process became the youngest two-time Junior World medalist in American history. Kyle Frederick Snyder (born November 20, 1995) is an American freestyle wrestler. [40], Before bringing home his Junior World title in 2013, Snyder had already decided to forgo his senior year of high school competition and instead compete internationally as a resident athlete at the United States Olympic Training Center beginning in the fall of 2013. But Snyder battled back, and tied the match at 3–3 before the end of the first period, only to have Sadulaev score another takedown and regain the lead. I think I’m going to wrestle as long as I can as long as [God] wants me to. [47] Since USA Wrestling's National Team Trials use a best two-out-of-three format for their finals, Snyder had to beat the returning Olympic gold medalist a total of four times, which he did with a cumulative score of 21–6 over the course of their matches. [61][62] Snyder is a Christian. [5] In 2018, Snyder won his third straight individual NCAA title as a heavyweight, this time being out-weighed by nearly 60 pounds "in one of the biggest size differences in an NCAA championship match in history,"[6] and became the first three-time NCAA heavyweight champion in nearly 30 years. [2] He played for the Spokane Indians in 1999 and was named top prospect in the Northwest League by Baseball America. Famous Birthdays.
In 2012 the Tampa Bay Rays hired Snyder as pitching coach for the Short-Season A level Hudson Valley Renegades.
Fun facts: before fame, family life, popularity rankings, and more. [32] His opponent was Abdulrashid Sadulaev, a young Russian phenom on a three-year undefeated streak that included two World Championships as well as an Olympic gold, who was then considered the best pound-for-pound wrestler in the world. [50], For his two international championships Snyder was rewarded with over a quarter million dollars by the Living the Dream Medal Fund, which was founded by "two former collegiate wrestlers-turned Wall Street tycoons," billionaire investment banker Michael E. Novogratz and real estate developer David Barry. In January 2007, Snyder signed a one-year contract with the Red Sox avoiding the arbitration process.[5]. [2], Snyder then made more history by becoming the first Olympic gold medalist to return to college and win an NCAA wrestling championship, clinching his second consecutive NCAA heavyweight title in 2017 despite tearing cartilage in his chest in the quarter-finals[3][4] and being out-weighed by upwards of 40 pounds throughout the tournament. [56] In November 2013, Snyder became the #1 ranked "Pound for Pound" (P4P) American high school wrestler according to Flowrestling.org.[21]. [35][15], And in a story recounted to The Washington Post by his college coach, Tom Ryan,[36] after Snyder's thrilling come-from-behind overtime victory which clinched his first NCAA heavyweight title in front of a sold-out Madison Square Garden – a match chosen by fans to be the final one of the night[29] and broadcast live in primetime to millions on ESPN[37] – a maintenance worker approached Ryan to let him know what made Snyder, who'd already made wrestling history as America's youngest World Champion and was named Most Outstanding Wrestler of those NCAA Championships,[30] stand out from his competition the most that weekend: he'd been the only athlete in the entire tournament who continually thanked him for refilling the stadium's water jugs. Kyle Snyder, an Olympic and world champion and one of the world’s best wrestlers, spent the autumn living in a basement.. Not just any basement. Snyder’s career with the Royals was hampered by several injuries. He was granted free agency after the 2008 season and signed a minor league contract with the New York Mets, in January 2009. [9] The Rays promoted him to be the MLB pitching coach for the 2018 season, replacing longtime pitching coach Jim Hickey. He played for the Kansas City Royals and the Boston Red Sox. Snyder started the 2006 season with the Royal's minor league affiliate, the Omaha Royals, and was promoted to the major leagues on June 8, 2006, to face the Texas Rangers. At the young age of 21, he has already set a bench mark for all the players out there. And then less than one year later, Snyder bested Azerbaijan's Khetag Gazyumov, a former World Champion and two-time Olympic medalist, for his Rio Olympic gold. Despite his history with injuries, Snyder was named the 7th-best prospect in the organization by Baseball America in 2003.