So when a student-athlete performs so well for four years that he breaks the school’s all-time record for victories, he gets noticed.

Logan Jaquay has certainly gotten noticed.

The three-time Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association wrestling championships qualifier placed twice in Hershey, including a fourth-place podium finish as a senior in March at 120 pounds.

Along the way he set the Knights’ record for career wins, finishing with 140 after going 40-3 this past season.

Now, he’ll take his talents to Edinboro University to wrestle for the Fighting Scots.

“Last summer, I started working out there and I got to know Coach (Matt) Hill pretty well,” Jaquay said Tuesday afternoon. “Over the winter, I went on a visit. It’s nice being close to home. It kind of all just came together.”

Jaquay grew up in a wrestling family as his father, Todd, and uncle, Jason, also wrestled for Eisenhower.

His high school coach, Kris Black, is a friend of the family. He noticed some of Jaquay’s abilities as early as elementary school and then Jaquay began to excel at the junior high level.

“I’ve known Logan his whole life. His mom and my wife are best friends so I’ve known him forever,” Black said Monday afternoon. “Coming up through elementary school he had some abilities. Come freshman year, we had big hopes for Logan.”

“During junior high, I started beating kids that were a little bit better and I started getting better,” Jaquay added. “I noticed that I started growing and realized it was a possibility to go on to the next level.”

Jaquay wrestled at 106 pounds during his freshman and sophomore years, reaching the state tournament and finishing eighth as a sophomore.

“As a freshman, I was just hoping one day to go to states,” Jaquay said. “When sophomore year came around, making it to states was awesome. I went down to Hershey and I didn’t really expect to place. When I ended up placing, it was a big relief.”

Wrestling at 113 pounds as a junior, Jaquay again reached the state championships, but did not finish on the podium.

He put it all together as a senior, breaking the school record with his 118th win Jan. 15 to eclipse Travis Hummel’s Eisenhower mark established in 1997.

“It was pretty cool. When I was breaking those records, it felt like it was meant to be,” Jaquay said. “It’s something I’ll never forget.”

During his fourth varsity season on the mat, Jaquay lost just once in the regular season to Reynolds’ Cole Bayless.

“That one loss actually helped me a lot. It kind of drove me to tighten things up and get a little crisper on some things,” Jaquay said. “I think it helped me in the long run at the state tournament because there wasn’t the pressure of being undefeated.”

Jaquay came back at the Giant Center in Hershey to beat Bayless after falling in the semifinals.

“Logan was pretty untested throughout the year. … We had a pretty good idea Logan could wrestle with those guys at the state tournament,” Black said. “A lot of the guys in his bracket we’d seen at the state tournament before. We kind of knew what we had in front of us.”

Now, Warren County’s all-time wins leader and Eisenhower’s only two-time state place finisher will begin his freshman year at Edinboro, wrestling at 125 pounds, but knows that might not be where he’ll end up.

“The coach when I was being recruited said if I can make 125 that’d be great, but I might grow with a bigger frame,” Jaquay said. “I’ll start at 125 and if I grow, I’ll hit the weight room to get bigger, stronger and faster.”

Jaquay will begin his academic career at Edinboro as a physical education major.

“It’s definitely going to be a big jump,” he said about wrestling at the NCAA Division I level. “I’ve worked hard my whole life for these moments. I think I have to continue to work hard and be the best that I can be while just having fun with it, too.”

And the student-athletes at Eisenhower will have a wrestler just across state Route 6 to aspire to in the years to come.

“It’s big. I can’t put into words what it does for the program,” Black said of Jaquay’s success. “You see it once kids realize guys they are practicing with are ranked in the top three in the state or placing in the top eight in the state every year.

“Once you have those successful individuals,” Black added, “it’s a big deal.”