By Bret Strelow. BOONE, N.C. — With several high-profile opponents set to visit Varsity Gym, which has been upgraded via seating and visual enhancements for the 2024-25 season, App State Wrestling announced its complete schedule and season ticket availability Tuesday.
Key Home Events
The Mountaineers’ home schedule includes visits from nonconference foes West Virginia (on Nov. 22, a Friday night before a Nov. 23 home football game against James Madison), Virginia Tech (Sunday, Jan. 19) and Duke (Monday, Jan. 20) as well as SoCon counterparts Chattanooga (Sunday, Feb. 9) and Campbell (Sunday, Feb. 23).
Counting two Saturday tournaments and seven duals, there are nine home events on the schedule for App State, which closed last season with a second straight SoCon Championship tournament title and a No. 24 national ranking.
New Seating Opportunities
General admission season tickets with seating on the familiar sets of sideline bleachers are available for the low cost of $70 for the nine home events. For faculty/staff, the discounted price is $60.
New endline seating, facing the new competition mat and the Varsity Gym scoreboard, will be in place as a premium seating option for the 2024-25 season.
A season ticket in the Premium Gold section — which has a reserved seat that includes a seatback, a cupholder and more leg room than a traditional bleacher seat — costs $100. A season ticket in the Premium Black section, which is a general admission seat (that also has a seatback) within the Premium area, outside of the Premium Gold seats, costs $85.
Single-match tickets will go on sale at a later date, with the matches against West Virginia, Virginia Tech and Campbell serving as Varsity Plus duals, so the best value for App State Wrestling fans is purchasing a season ticket.
This season, home duals will be streamed live on FloWrestling, which has a subscription model.
Schedule Details
The Mountaineers’ schedule begins Nov. 3 with a tournament appearance at the Battle at The Citadel, and App State will host the Mountaineer Invitational the following Saturday. The dual schedule begins Friday night, Nov. 15 at NC State.
App State hosts West Virginia in Varsity Gym at 7 p.m. on Nov. 22 before competing away from home for nearly two months.
Those events are the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational (Dec. 6-7), the SoCon opener at VMI (Dec. 12), the Wilkes Open (in Pennsylvania on Dec. 20), the Southern Scuffle (in Chattanooga from Jan. 4-5) and another SoCon road dual against The Citadel (Jan. 12).
The Mountaineers host Virginia Tech and Duke on back-to-back days, with the Sunday dual against the Hokies scheduled for 3 p.m. and the Monday night dual against the Blue Devils scheduled for 7 p.m., following a high school match.
The Appalachian Open is set for Jan. 25, followed by a SoCon visit from Presbyterian two days later. The Mountaineers then conclude their road schedule with visits to Louisville-based Bellarmine on Jan. 31 and Gardner-Webb on Feb. 4.
The last three Sundays of the regular season feature 3 p.m. home duals against SoCon opponents Chattanooga (Feb. 9), Davidson (Feb. 16) and Campbell (Feb. 23).
The location and date have yet to be finalized for the SoCon Championship tournament, although it is expected to be March 7 or March 8, and the NCAA Championships begin March 20 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
