JOSH HOKIT: FRESNO STATE’S TWO-SPORT STUDENT-ATHLETE

Being an athlete in a Division One program is rare. Being an athlete who competes in two sports is practically unheard of.

Josh Hokit scores in both wrestling and in football. He is the only Division One athlete competing in both.

This is his second year as a dual-sport athlete at Fresno State.

“He loves both of them,” Fresno State wrestling head coach Troy Steinert said. “He has an opportunity to play both, why not do it?”

Why not? Well, he has to drop at least 25 pounds to compete on the wrestling mat at 197 pounds. But on the football field, his listed weight for football is 220.

“I just did it way smarter and I wrapped my mind around it,” Running Back and Wrestler Josh Hokit said. “You know, when the mind is set on something, the body seems to follow.”

It has not been easy for Hokit. He finished his sophomore year with a 9-8 overall record and 6-6 in dual meets.

“I really thought I was going to come in here and just bully people and win by a lot,” Hokit said. “I thought it was going to be no challenge, but every match is a fight.”

“He’s much better off right now than where he was last year, no doubt about it,” Steinert said. “He came in a lot more prepared not just physically but mentally he came in more prepared.”

Which is now showing in his record, he went from being unranked to ranked as high as No. 13.

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“I’m looking at it and I don’t take a back seat to nobody,” Hokit said. “So what is stopping me from beating the number one guy? And that’s how I’m training every day.”

Hokit has a Mountain West Championship under his belt in football and now he is one step closer to a Big 12 Championship in wrestling.

It is safe to say he will be a name Bulldog fans remember for a long time.