12:26 PM ET Three-time NCAA champion wrestler Kyle Snyder of Ohio State was named Tuesday as the winner of the Sullivan Award, presented annually to top amateur athlete in the United States. A 2016 Olympic gold medalist at 97 kilograms and a two-time winner at the World Championships, Snyder is the first wrestler to win the award since Rulon Gardner in 2000. He is the first athlete from Ohio State to win the award since Ezekiel Elliott, now a running back with the Dallas Cowboys, did it in 2014. Snyder, 22, won his third NCAA title in March with a late takedown in the championship match of Michigan heavyweight Adam Coon, who outweighed Snyder by 55 pounds. The win avenged Snyder’s lone collegiate loss, suffered in February of this year. Other finalists for the award included Olympic bronze medal-winning figure skaters Maia and Alex Shibutani, NCAA champion volleyball players Kelly…
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