2020-21 Wrestling Fact Book
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2020-21 WRESTLING FACT BOOK TABLE OF CONTENTS Wrestling Office Phone ......................... 434-981-5126 2020-21 SCHEDULE Roster ...................................................................2 Home Facility ..............................Memorial Gymnasium Head Coach Steve Garland ...................................3 Jan. 2 at App State Individual Quad All Day Coaching Staff ......................................................4 Jan. 9 GARDNER-WEBB 1 p.m Cavalier Profiles .............................................. 5-16 TEAM INFORMATION Jan. 15 NC STATE* 5 p.m. 2019-20 Dual-Meet Record ....................................8-6 Newcomer Profiles ........................................ 17-19 Jan. 22 at Virginia Tech* 5 p.m. ACC Dual Record ................................................1-4 Jan. 29 PITTSBURGH* 5 p.m. 2019-20 Season Review ....................................20 ACC Championships Finish ......................4th, 60.5 pts Feb. 5 DUKE* 6 p.m. History and Honors .............................................21 2020 NCAA Championship Finish ..........................N/A Feb. 13 at North Carolina* 6 p.m. All-Time Records .................................................22 Feb. 28 at ACC Championships6 All Day All-Americans Returning/Lost .................................1/1 7 Dual-Meet Records .............................................22 March 18-20 at NCAA Championships All Day 2020 NCAA Qualifiers Returning/Lost ....................5/1 NCAA Championships History .............................23 Total NCAA Qualifiers Returning/Lost .....................6/1 ACC Championships History ................................24 * ACC Dual Starters Returning/Lost ..........................................9/1 Academic Honors & Awards ................................25 Home matches in CAPS Letterwinners Returning/Lost ................................13/7 Year-by-Year Results ..................................... 26-29 Series Records ....................................................30 SOCIAL MEDIA Year-By-Year Results By Opponent ................ 31-34 MEDIA RELATIONS Assistant AD/Media Relations ......................Jim Daves Wrestling Media Relations Contact ........Bill Bunting UNIVERSITY QUICK FACTS E-mail [email protected] Location .........................Charlottesville, Va. 22904 Office Phone ....................................(434) 982-5535 Founded ........................ 1819 by Thomas Jefferson @UVAWrestling Facebook.com/ Media Relations Phone ......................(434) 982-5500 @UVAWrestling Enrollment .............24,639 (16,777 undergraduate) UVAWrestling President ............................................. Dr. Jim Ryan Athletics Director ..............................Carla Williams MEDIA INFORMATION Nicknames .......................Cavaliers, Wahoos, ‘Hoos Virginia no longer produces printed wrestling Colors ........................................... Orange and Blue media guides. Please use this file for historical Song .............................................“Good Old Song” reference information on Cavalier wrestling. Affiliations ..................................... NCAA Division I/ Virginia’s 2020-21 wrestling fact book was Atlantic Coast Conference prepared by the staff of the Virginia Athletics Media Athletics Web Site...................... VirginiaSports.com Relations Office to assist the news media in its University Web Site ...............................Virginia.edu coverage of the Cavaliers. Requests for interviews, feature materials, photographs and additional information should be made to the Athletics Media PROGRAM INFORMATION Relations Office. Head Coach ........................................... Steve Garland Additional information is available on the Alma Mater .......................................... Virginia, 2000 UVa Athletics Department’s official web site, Years at School ..................................................15th VirginiaSports.com. Dual Record at UVa/Career ........166-93, 33-38 ACC The UVA Athletics Media Relations Office is E-mail [email protected] located in John Paul Jones Arena. Regular business Assistant Coach ..................................... Travis Paulson hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Years at School ................................................Fourth The phone number is (434) 982-5500. E-mail ........................................... [email protected] All interviews must be arranged through Assistant Coach ...................................... Trent Paulson the UVA Athletics Media Relations Office. It is Years at School ................................................Fourth requested that you allow the staff at least one day E-mail [email protected] to arrange an interview. Please contact wrestling SID Volunteer Assistant Coach .............................. Earl Hall Bill Bunting with interview requests. Years at School ...................................................First Office Location ............................Memorial Gymnasium 2020-21 VIRGINIA WRESTLING ROSTER Name Wt. Cl. Hometown/Last School Jay Aiello 197 R-Sr. Chantilly, Va./Westfield PRONUNICATION GUIDE Michael Battista 184 R-Jr. Ashburn, Va./Broad Run AIELLO: eye-ELL-oh Sam Book 133 R-Jr. Fairfax, Va./J.W. Robinson BATTISTA: Buh-TEE-stuh Evan Buchanan 133 Fr. Mechanicsville, Va./Atlee Dylan Cedeno 133 Fr. Fair Lawn, N.J./Bergen Catholic CEDENO: suh-DAY-no Channing Connors 174 R-Fr. Virginia Beach, Va./Kellam CONTRASTANO: CON-struh-STAHN-oh Joe Contrastano 125 Fr. East Williston, N.Y./Wheatley COSTA: CAH-stuh Ray Costa 149 R-Fr. Huntington, N.Y./Cold Spring Harbor Brian Courtney 141 R-Jr. Sayre, Pa./Athens Area ENCARNACION: in-car-NAY-see-on Cam Coy 165 R-Jr. Jeannette, Pa./Penn Trafford BENYAMIN KAMALI: ben-yah-meen kuh-MAH-lee Nick Coy 141 R-Fr. Jeannette, Pa./Penn Trafford KIYONO: KEY-own-oh Alex Cruz 149 R-So. Orting, Wash./Orting Josiah Encarnacion 125 Fr. Wantagh, N.Y./Wantagh MATEUSZ KUDRA: muh-TOOZ koo-druh Luca Errico 149 Fr. Armonk, N.Y./The Brunswick School MARCELLI: mar-SELL-ee Patrick Evans 157 R-Fr. New Orleans, La./Brother Martin SANSONE: san-SOWN Gray Hart 141 R-So. Richmond, Va./St. Christopher’s School Louie Hayes 133 R-Sr. Orland Park, Ill./Carl Sandburg VELTRI: VELL-tree Loudon Hurt 174 Fr. Midlothian, Va./St. Christopher’s School VILLAREAL: vee-YAH-ree-ALL Benyamin Kamali 125/133 R-So. Lansing, Mich./Detroit Catholic Central Jake Keating 157 R-Jr. Naperville, Ill./Naperville Central BREAKDOWN BY STATE Krystian Kinsey 174 R-So. Havelock, N.C./Havelock Scott Kiyono 141 Jr. Poway, Calif./Poway California ....................................... 1 Jessie Knight HWT Fr. Bridgewater, Va./Turner Ashby Florida ........................................... 1 Mateusz Kudra HWT R-Fr. North Attleboro, Mass./North Attleboro Georgia ......................................... 2 Trey Lane 133 R-Fr. Brandon, Fla./Brandon Victor Marcelli 174 R-So. Massillon, Ohio/Jackson Illinois ............................................ 3 Patrick McCormick 125 R-So. Poquoson, Va./Poquoson Louisiana ....................................... 1 Justin McCoy 157 R-So. New Paris, Pa./Chestnut Ridge Massachusetts ............................... 1 Quinn Miller HWT R-Jr. Lilburn, Ga./Archer Michigan ........................................ 2 Patrick Noonan 141 Fr. Stroudsburg, Pa./Stroudsburg Robby Patrick 165 R-So. Ligonier, Pa./Ligonier Valley Pennsylvania .................................. 8 Drew Peck 174 Sr. Chambersburg, Pa./Chambersburg New Jersey ..................................... 1 Justin Phillips 157 R-Fr. Lynchburg, Va./Liberty Christian Academy New York ........................................ 4 Nic Sansone 165 R-Fr. Virginia Beach, Va./Kellam Denton Spencer 149 R-Jr. Waverly, Ga./Camden County (Gardner-Webb) North Carolina ............................... 2 Anthony Steinmeyer 157 R-Fr. Reading, Pa./Wilson Ohio .............................................. 1 Hudson Stewart 184 Fr. Goode, Va./Brookeville Virginia ........................................ 12 David Veltri 174 R-Fr. Chapel Hill, N.C./Carrboro Noah Villareal 141 Fr. Plano, Ill./Aurora Christian Washington .................................... 1 Ethan Weatherspoon 184 R-Fr. Jackson, Mich./Napolean Head Coach: Steve Garland (Virginia, ’00), 15th season Assistant Coach: Travis Paulson (Iowa State, ’07), 4th season Assistant Coach: Trent Paulson (Iowa State, ’07), 4th season Volunteer Assistant Coach: Earl Hall (Iowa State, ‘17), 1st season 2 VIRGINIA WRESTLING 2020-21 FACT BOOK Head Coach STEVE GARLAND Former Cavalier All-American Steve Garland is serving in his 15th season as the NCAA Championships after taking head wrestling coach at Virginia. A master motivator, recruiter and coach, Garland 23th place. UVa produced a pair of has worked diligently to push the Cavaliers among the nation’s elite. The results of All-Americans, as Derek Valenti (149) and THE GARLAND FILE Garland’s perseverance are evident. Chris Henrich (174) each reached the Family: Wife, English; In Garland’s first 14 seasons at Virginia, the Cavaliers earned 13 All-America podium at NCAAs, while seven Cavaliers Daughters, Sarah and Grace honors and 19 ACC individual titles while qualifying 82 to the NCAA Championships qualified for the national championships. High School: Middletown H.S. (N.Y.) and recording Top-25 team finishes at NCAAs in seven of the last 10 years the event As a team, UVa