2024-25 Team USA Ranking: No. 2 at 53 kg/116 lbs.

Years on Team USA: 6 (2015-20, 2024-25)

Residence: Lockport, Ill.

Hometown: Lockport, Ill.

Regional Training Center: Izzy Style Wrestling

Club: New York AC

Personal Coach: Israel Martinez

College: King University

High School: Lockport, Ill.

Born: Oct. 17, 1994 in Chicago, Ill.

Height: 5’2”

Olympic Teams

2016 Olympic Games (Ninth at 48 kg)

Senior World Teams

2017 Senior Worlds (Eighth at 53 kg)

Age-Group World Teams

2013 U20 Worlds (15th at 51 kg), 2012 U20 Worlds (16th at 51 kg), 2011 U17 Worlds (Gold at 46 kg)

Career Highlights

U.S. Olympic Team member
U.S. Senior World Team member
U17 World Championships gold medalist
Two-time U20 U.S. World Team member
Pan American Championships bronze medalist
Three-time WCWA college national champion for King University

Career Biography

2024: U.S. Olympic Team Trials runner-up…

2023: Third in U.S. Senior Nationals/Olympic Trials Qualifier…

2020: Fourth in Pan American Championships…

2019: Bill Farrell Memorial International silver medalist… Fifth in Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix (Russia)… World Team Trials Challenge Tournament runner-up…. Fourth in U.S. Open…

2018: Ion Corneanu & Ladislau Simon Memorial (Romania) bronze medalist… Fifth in Alexander Medved International (Belarus)… Final X runner-up… World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion… Second in U.S. Open…

2017: Eighth in World Championships in Paris, France… Outstanding Ukrainian Memorial bronze medalist… U.S. World Team Trials champion…

2016: Ninth in Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil… World Olympic Games Qualifier (Mongolia) silver medalist… U.S. Olympic Team Trials champion… University Nationals champion… U.S. Open runner-up…

2015: Dave Schultz Memorial International silver medalist… Third in U.S. World Team Trials… Fifth in U.S. Open…

2014: Pan American Championships bronze medalist… U20 Nationals runner-up…

2013: 15th in U20 World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria… Klippan Ladies Open bronze medalist… Fourth in Austria Ladies Open… U.S. Open runner-up… U20 Nationals champion… Pan American Championships Wrestle-Off champion…

2012: 16th in U20 World Championships in Pattaya, Thailand… Minnesota Storm Holiday Cup gold medalist… New York Athletic Club International silver medalist… Fourth in Dave Schultz Memorial International… Seventh in U.S. Open… U20 Nationals champion…

2011: U17 World Championships gold medalist in Szombathely, Hungary… U20 Nationals champion…

College: Three-time WCWA Nationals champion for King University (2014-15, 2017)… Coached by Jason Moorman… Took an Olympic redshirt in 2016 and made the U.S. Olympic Team…

High School: Attended Lockport High School…

Age-Group: Two-time USA Wrestling Junior Nationals champion (2010-11)…

Awards: 2016 Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame Amateur Female Athlete of the Year... 2012 and 2013 ASICS Girls High School Wrestler of the Year…

Personal: Daughter of Larry and Wendy Augello… Passion for coaching wrestling to Illinois youth… Coach at Izzy Style Wrestling…. Enjoys reality TV, reading mystery novels, gardening, and animals…

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