Highlight Hoos 2021-2022: Jay Aiello | UVA Wrestling

With the 2021-2022 Virginia athletics season formally accomplished, we enter the school sports activities offseason optimistic for issues to come back for the Cavaliers subsequent season. However with the autumn seasons nonetheless a few months away, we’ve time to have a look again at a number of the unbelievable athletic accomplishments achieved by UVA pupil athletes through the 2021-2022 sports activities 12 months in a collection known as Spotlight Hoos.

To date, we have coated Diana Ordóñez (Virginia ladies’s soccer), Mia Barnett (Virginia cross nation and observe & subject), Leo Afonso (Virginia males’s soccer), Brooklyn Borum (Virginia volleyball), Amber Ezechiels (Virginia subject hockey), Alex Walsh and Kate Douglass (Virginia swimming), and Dontayvion Wicks (Virginia soccer). 

Right this moment, we check out senior wrestler Jay Aiello, who put the ending touches on a embellished UVA profession by qualifying for the NCAA Championships for the fourth-consecutive season. 

Even earlier than the season began, Jay Aiello put one other spectacular accolade on his résumé by representing Staff USA on the U23 World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia again in November. Aiello gained three complete matches, together with a 13-2 victory over Vasil Pauliuchenka of Belarus to say the bronze medal within the 97kg weight class. 

Again within the orange and blue for one ultimate season, Aiello was as soon as once more one of many nation’s prime wrestlers on the 197-pound weight class. He turned in a 16-5 total file, together with a 5-2 mark in duals, and was 9-5 towards nationally-ranked opponents. Aiello positioned third on the ACC Championships, which had been held at John Paul Jones Area, and certified for the NCAA Championships at 197 kilos for the fourth-consecutive season, changing into the thirteenth Cavalier to ever earn 4 NCAA choices. 

For his profession, Aiello is a four-time NCAA qualifier (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022) and a three-time All-ACC choice (2019, 2020, 2021). He was the ACC Runner-Up at 197 kilos in each 2019 and 2021 and gained the ACC Championship at 197 kilos in 2020. Within the COVID-19 season in 2020, Aiello was named an All-American, though there was no NCAA Championship that season. Aiello was additionally named to the ACC Wrestling All-Tutorial Staff within the 2020 and 2022 seasons. Aiello completed his profession with a file of 90-36. 

Following the season, Jay Aiello turned the primary wrestler in UVA program historical past to earn a spot on the U.S. Senior Nationwide Staff roster by advantage of his thrilling 8-6 victory over Isaac Trumble at Madison Sq. Backyard on June eighth. 

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