FROM THE NEST | SPRING 2025 | 33 and played soccer as well. Other passions took over and I got into other things. Now I’m finding that passion again, which is nice. You started a chess club at Lehigh? They had an underground chess club. … There were people who would meet up and play chess, but no one actually went to the Student Senate and said, ‘Let’s actually make a club out of this. Let’s establish that. Let's let the rest of the school know that we're playing and have more than just six people here.’ You helped get one organized? I established the chess club. I’ve been acting as president for three years, [since it’s been] established. It will be passed down next year, though. What’s the toughest thing about jumping? I’d say the toughest thing about jumping and track and field as a whole is that it is an individual sport. As much as you have a team and you have what we consider a family around us, at the end of the day, it’s you versus the rest of the people in competition. It’s you versus your own head and what you have going on. There’s no one else you can rely on. Once you’re out there, you’re going to have to show up, and everyone’s watching you. So much of the game is mental. What’s one fun fact that people may not know about you? I can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 12 seconds.—Stephen Gross LEHIGH LEADS IN NCAA GRADUATION SUCCESS RATE NCAA Graduation Success Rate (GSR) report data and Federal Graduation Rate (FGR) information for student-athletes who entered Lehigh in the 2017-2018 academic year shows Lehigh graduates student-athletes receiving athletically related aid at higher rates than the national average. Lehigh’s GSR for student-athletes is 92%. Lehigh’s four-year FGR is 93%, which is top among Patriot League institutions. Fourteen Lehigh varsity sport programs earned a perfect 100% fouryear GSR, and nine of those programs earned a perfect 100% four-year FGR for the current report year.—Steve Lomangino STATS Darryl Burley ’83 ’85G has been elected to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member. A Roger S. Penske/Lehigh Athletics Hall of Fame member, Burley is a two-time NCAA Division I national champion, a four-time finalist and one of just two four-time All-Americans for the Lehigh wrestling program. Burley amassed a 94-5-1 record for Lehigh from 1978 through 1983 and is one of five wrestlers to win four or more individual EIWA Championships for the Brown and White. Burley has coached at wrestling clubs in Pennsylvania and New Jersey while also being a clinician at wrestling camps at all levels. He currently works as an assistant wrestling coach at the Cannon School in Concord, North Carolina. The sixth Distinguished Member from Lehigh, Burley will be inducted as part of the Class of 2025 at the 48th Honors Weekend, June 6-7, in Stillwater, Oklahoma.—Steve Lomangino WRESTLING Darryl Burley Elected to National Wrestling Hall of Fame The former Lehigh wrestling standout will be formally inducted as a Distinguished Member in June. Darryl Burley ’83 ’85G LEHIGH UNIVERSITY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS / STEPHANIE VETO RYAN HULVAT
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