Ryan Mango ‘09

Athlete - Wrestling

Ryan Mango ‘09 is a wrestling powerhouse. He lettered four years in wrestling and is a four-time All-Metro, district champion, and Academic All-State. He is a three-time Missouri Class 1 state champion at 103, 119, and 130 pounds. As a junior and senior he went 95-0 and captained the wrestling team both years. His team placed second at the Class 1 Missouri State Championship when he was a sophomore before winning back-to-back State titles in 2008 and 2009. He also played soccer for two years while at Whitfield.

In 2009, the Missouri Wrestling Association named him the Class-1 Wrestler of the Year, and the Missouri Officials Association and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch both named him Missouri Wrestler of the Year.

After Whitfield, Ryan attended Stanford University where he earned a B.S. in Human Biology in 2013. A decorated wrestler at Stanford, he was a two-time NCAA Division 1 All-American, two-time Pac12 Champion, and a four-time NCAA Division 1 Qualifier. After college, Ryan served as a Sergeant in the United States Army World Class Athlete Program for eight years. Ryan’s wrestling accomplishments are vast. He was a U.S. World Team Member in 2019, finishing 7th at 63 kilograms in the World Wrestling Championships, a five-time National Team Member, a 65kg Military World Silver Medalist (2017), a two-time 63kg U.S. Open National Champion (2018, 2019), and a 63kg Pan-American Games Champion (2018). Ryan finished his wrestling career as the 2021 60kg Olympic Alternate. 

Ryan has since earned his MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and is currently a Senior Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, OH, where he works on Old Spice, managing innovation and brand strategy for North America and the end-to-end Europe business. Ryan and his wife, Lula Berhe, were married in the summer of 2022. She will join Ryan in Cincinnati after she finishes her three-year Doctor of Physical Therapy Degree at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine in April 2025.