WORCHESTER, Mass. – Roger Williams Sophomore Cole Shaughnessy (Fairfield, Conn.) was named the New England Wrestling Association Rookie of the Week and was one of six wrestlers who ranked in the top-five of their weight-class in the season-opening NEWA newsletter released on Wednesday morning.
 
Shaughnessy, who is currently ranked fifth in the 184-pound weight class, received the honor after taking third at the Roger Williams University Invitational over the weekend, beating the preseason number-four wrestler in the region as ranked by the NEWA, while also knocking out the third and fourth seeds in the tournament.
 
In addition, the NEWA released their individual rankings by weight class with Kyle Kaiser (Paramus, N.J.) holding the top spot at 133 while Addison Boisvert (Scarborough, Maine) was ranked as the third-best heavyweight. Ben Bariso (Butler, N.J.) was ranked fourth in the 149-pound weight class and Jack Kelly (Wall, N.J.) joined Shaughnessy by being ranked fifth at 165. 
 
Also, within the top-eight in the rankings for RWU were Connor Keegan (East Sandwich, Mass.), ranked sixth at 125, Peter Tringali (Chester, N.J.), ranked sixth at 141, Spencer Fetrow (Holliston, Mass.), ranked sixth at 197, and Jacob Cardozo (Southington, Conn.), ranked eighth at 174.
 
As a team, Roger Williams was ranked fifth in the region at this time.