NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- Millikin senior Bradan Birt won his second College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) Wrestling Student-Athlete of the Week honor on Tuesday.

Birt, a native of Epworth, Iowa and Western Dubuque High School, won the 165 pound title with a 5-0 record at the 80th Pete Willson Invitational, hosted by Wheaton College and held Friday and Saturday. He improved to 30-0 on the season and was named the tournament's George Olson Outstanding Wrestler, as well as the Jack Swartz Award for most falls in the least amount of time. Birt finished with four falls and one technical fall including wins over UW-Whitewater's Shane Piper (Fall 0:56), Muskingum's Carter Layton (Fall 0:34), North Central's Payton Geigner (Fall 1:31), Cornell's Casey Allen (20-3 TF), and UW-Stevens Point's Brandon Peckham (Fall 5:00). 

2021-22 CCIW Wrestling Student-Athletes of the Week
Bradan Birt - Millikin (2/1/22)
Cole Cervantes - North Central (1/24/22)
Ethan Harsted - Wheaton (1/18/22)
Cody Baldridge - North Central (1/11/22)
Ellex Williams - Augustana (12/21/21)
Robbie Precin - North Central (12/14/21)
Bradan Birt - Millikin (12/7/21)
Javen Estrada - North Central (11/23/21)
The College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) was founded in 1946 and currently services nine member institutions including Augustana College (Rock Island, IL), Carroll University (Waukesha, WI), Carthage College (Kenosha, WI), Elmhurst College (Elmhurst, IL), Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL), Millikin University (Decatur, IL), North Central College (Naperville, IL), North Park University (Chicago, IL) and Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL). Associate members in wrestling include Concordia-Wisconsin, Lakeland University and the Milwaukee School of Engineering.