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Lachlan McNeil, a rising redshirt-sophomore on the North Carolina wrestling team, has been selected to represent Team Canada at the 2023 Pan American Games, Wrestling Canada Lutte and the Canadian Olympic Committee announced Thursday morning.

McNeil earned the selection for the 2023 games based on his performance at the 2023 Canadian Wrestling Championships, which took place March 9-12 in Waterloo, Ontario. At the championships, McNeil won all four of his matches by technical fall, to claim the 65 KG title.

The 2023 Pan American Games will be the fifth time McNeil has represented Team Canada at the event, winning gold medals in 2016, 2017, and 2021, with a silver medal showing in 2018.

The announcement continues a busy few months for the Toronto, Ontario product, finishing fourth at the 2023 NCAA Wrestling Championships at 141-pounds, collecting NWCA Scholar All-America and Amateur Wrestling News All-Rookie Team recognitions, competing at the Stepen Sargsyan Cup (Yerevuen, Armenia) and Polyak Imre & Vargas Janos (Budapest, Hungary), as well as winning the Grand Prix of Spain (Madrid, Spain) at 65 KG.

McNeil will represent Team Canada and the Tar Heels on November 1-4, at Centro de Entrenamiento Olímpico in Santiago, Chile.