Collegiate wrestler Brady Lowry during a match while he was in high school. James M. Dobson / The Spectrum & Daily News

College wrestlers hospitalized after bear attack

By Chelena Goldman | Last updated 10/19/22

Two collegiate wrestlers in Wyoming were hospitalized over the weekend after surviving a bear attack southeast of Yellowstone National Park.

Brady Lowry and Kendall Cummings were reportedly searching for shed deer antlers on Saturday when a bear emerged from the trees and attacked Lowry. Cummings tried to scare the bear in order to save his teammate and ended up catching the brunt of the attack himself. According to ESPN, Lowry sustained a broken arm and puncture wounds while Cummings had to undergo surgery.

Wrestlers are truly built different.

Last Saturday, Northwest College Wrestlings’s Kendell Cummings saved teammate Brady Lowry while he was being mauled by a grizzly bear in Cody, Wyoming, USA. pic.twitter.com/nn9plyYFBd
— United World Wrestling (@wrestling) October 18, 2022

"The bear came running out of the trees. I didn't even see it until it was right in front of me, but I heard the crashing," Lowry said in an exclusive interview with ABC News that aired Wednesday on "Good Morning America."

Cummings added of his own experience: "It knocked me onto the ground and then, with its head, pushed me on the ground all the way up against the trees and then kind of pinned me up there and it was attacking me... I was putting my hands in its mouth and stuff, so it wouldn't be chewing on my neck and everything."

Cummings was attacked twice before the two wrestlers were able to get help. With the aid of some of their teammates, both were able to get off the mountain and to Billings Clinic Hospital.

According to Cowboy State Daily, Lowry was scheduled to be released from the hospital on Monday and Cummings is expected to leave later in the week.

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