2025-26
• AHA Rookie of the Week:
Nov. 11
• Tied for first on the team with 25 points while leading the way with 17 assists.
• Led all AHA first-year players in points and assists while ranking fourth in time on ice (19:55/game).
• Led the team and finished fifth in the AHA with 363 faceoff wins, including 18 games with double-digit wins.
• .561 faceoff winning percentage ranked second among all AHA skaters with at least 200 faceoff attempts.
• First career point was an assist in 6-1 setback at Sacred Heart (Oct. 11).
• Notched first career goal and won 10-of-15 faceoffs in 7-3 win vs. Air Force (Oct. 25) to start a six-game point streak.
• Notched the game-winning assist along with 16-of-23 faceoff wins in the 1-0 upset of No. 8 Penn State (Jan. 3).
• First-career multi-point game with two assists in 3-2 win over Robert Morris (Jan. 10).
• Scored a goal and won a career-high 19 faceoffs on 25 attempts for a .760 winning percentage--also a personal best--in the 3-3 home tie versus Niagara (Jan. 24)
• Scored the Tigers’ lone goal and won 13-of-19 faceoffs in 2-1 OT AHA Quarterfinal setback at Holy Cross (Mar. 6) before adding an assist and 18-of-28 faceoff wins in the 5-4 OT setback the following night (Mar.7)
BEFORE RIT
• Played five seasons in the OHL, compiling 69 points (29G/40A) in 173 appearances with the Barrie Colts.
• Played second half of 2024-25 season with the North Bay Battalion, adding 10 points (6G/4A) in 32 games.
• Graduated from Oakville Trafalgar High School in 2022
PERSONAL
• Zachary Wigle is the son of Jenn and Jeff Wigle
• Has two younger siblings—Kate and Natalie
• Enjoys biking and spending time with family and friends in his spare time
• Best advice he’s received, “Confidence is 20% of hockey, unless you don’t have it, then it becomes 100%”
• Credits his father for having the most influence on his playing career because, “he was the one who made it possible for me to play, was a good role model and first gave me my love of the game.”
• Started playing hockey at four years old
• Fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Jonathon Towes
• Majoring in finance
