The Student Federation unanimously granted the Hillsdale Men’s Wrestling Club probational club status in its April 7 meeting.

Aidan Johnston, president of the wrestling club, said the club is hoping to increase its presence on campus. 

“We’ve seen a lot of growth in the last year,” he said. “We want to have a bigger role on campus though.”

As a club with probationary status, the wrestling club will return to the student federation in a year to be reevaluated and considered for full club status.

The club is planning to facilitate more wrestling events, especially campus-wide ones like the recent Charger Duels event. 

The club meets three times a week in the Sports Complex. An average of five to eight members are present at each meeting, with 12 members in total. 

“With the current mat space we have, if we get 10 guys, which has happened before, we can still manage that because we can rotate people in and out of training,” Johnston said. 

During the debate of the club’s status, federation treasurer and junior Regina Gravrok raised the prospect of the wrestling club becoming a club sport instead of a club. 

“There might be an advantage to the club pursuing club sport status instead of sport club status,” Gravrok said. 

Rachel Marinko, faculty advisor of the federation, said if the wrestling club did become a club sport, it would be required to travel and compete against other collegiate clubs.

“At this point, I don’t think the athletic department would not want them to become a club sport because they aren’t planning on competing,” Marinko said. 

Federation president and senior Thomas MacPhee asked the club to consider club sport status down the road.

The next Student Federation meeting will be at 7 p.m. on April 21 in the Formal Lounge.