Charlottesville High School Wrestling

CHARLOTTESVILLE WRESTLING IS SHAKING THE GROUND!
The region has felt the shock waves from our hard takedowns. Ears have been pierced by the shrill sound of the ref whistles and mat slapping signifying our dominating pins.
Charlottesville Wrestling is in the papers once again!

DAILY PROGRESS - Thursday April 30, 2026
All Central Virginia Wrestling

FIRST TEAM:

🏆Roman Calvani
Calvani was the VHSL Class 4 state runner-up in the 190-pound weight class and posted a 27-5 record throughout the season.

🏆Theo Reinhart
Reinhart won the Region 4D title, then finished third in VHSL Class 4 in the 157-pound weight class. He ended the season with a 36-4 record.

🏆Adriel Peña
Peña placed third in the 113-pound weight class at the VHSL Class 4 State Championships and was runner-up in Region 4D. He went 34-4 throughout the winter.

🏆Walter Pilkey
Pilkey placed sixth in the 150-pound weight class at the VHSL Class 4 State Championships after having to leave the tournament due to injury. He placed at states in all four years of his high school career.

COACH OF THE YEAR:

🏆Stephen Yanchuk
In Yanchuk’s first year as head coach, the Black Knights had their highest state placement in team history and the best state placement among Central Virginia programs in 2026. After never having had a wrestler finish above fifth at states, three Charlottesville wrestlers were in the top three this season.

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Just as every wrestler needs a partner and room full of athletes to stay engaged and keep progressing, A coach needs his assistants and volunteer coaches! Thank you for all of your hard work and many sacrifices you've made his season and seasons before to get the program to this point!

We've only just begun...

Alternate State Tournament - USAWrestling
It was a great day out in Orange County. Geno, Victor, Theo Fiske, Marcus, and Eamon all competed against some great competition. It was a great capstone to an inspiring season.

Thank you to our coaches who showed up and to the parents that continue to support the program! It was great to have the support of our state qualifiers Theo Reinhart and Roman to cheer on the their teammates!

🥇Geno (8th grade) took 1st at 106
🥉Victor (Sophomore) took 3rd

REGIONAL RESULTS
Charlottesville finished #9 of 15 schools in the 4A Region D with 100.0 team points. With this result, we can now say our team has earned over 100 team points in every team competition this year!

Congratulations to our medal winners and State Qualifiers!
🥇Theo Reinhart (157)
🥈Adriel Peña (113)
🥈Roman Calvani (113)
🥉Walter Pilkey (150)

Theo Fiske (144) scored team points with his regional record of 2-2.

Your Black Knights will be competing in Virginia Beach on Feb 20-21.

Wrestlers compete individually, but thrive in a community.

5th Patriot Revolution Invitational Henry High School
Team took 3rd place out of 14 teams.
🥇Adriel Peña, Walter Pilkey, Theo Reinhart, Roman Calvani
🥉Berren Drier
Placers - Theo Fiske, Mikhail Kolomeisky
Varsity competitors - Ryan Wiles, Eamon Manning, Marcus Reinhart, Damonte Baker

The team scored 155.5 tournament points to take 3rd.
The fourth place team scored 152.5. The difference of 3 points in a tournament is the difference between getting a pin versus winning, or the difference of not getting pinned! Every wrestler contributed to our team's success today through their effort, hard work, and camaraderie.

Nov 22, 2025 was the first scrimmage to kick off the 2025-2026 wrestling season. Charlottesville High School hosted Madison County and Western Albemarle.

All of the wrestlers brought their skills, strength, and endurance they developed in the practice room to the scrimmage mats! We are off to a great start and showing a high level of potential.

Save the date - Sat Dec 6, 2025 - Rivanna Rumble
9:00am your Black Knight Wrestlers will take the mat in a Duals Tournament against six other high schools.

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VHSL Executive Committee votes to make girls wrestling an officially sanctioned sport On Wednesday in Charlottesville, the Virginia High School League's Executive Committee voted to make girls wrestling an officially sanctioned sport.

2024-25 All Central Virginia wrestling team The 2024-25 All Central Virginia wrestling team and coach of the year.

With a heavy heart but a very clear mind, I announced my retirement from coaching last night. Though the words were difficult to share, life events have conspired to make it clear that it is time for someone else to lead. I have been existentially fortunate to have shared so many years with kids, parents, other coaches, and the beautiful sport of wrestling. To all the families from Fork Union, Covenant, Washington & Lee, and Charlottesville, it has been my honor and privilege to be trusted, valued, and included in so many vital life moments for the last 25 years. There is never a perfect time to say goodbye and there were many disappointed faces last night, including my own, but I have every confidence that our extraordinary staff will produce a head coach who is up to the task of taking what has become a solid program toward ever greater heights.

Coaching has been among the great honors of my life and it has consumed an enormous proportion of my emotional energy for most of the 21st Century. I owe April more Valentine's Days than I will be able to repay, but as we sell one house and build another, she definitely deserves my full attention and time. Middle age also has meant that I no longer have the inordinate energy I once had that often masked my questionable organizational skills and meager talent, so I am convinced that someone else is best poised to lead the program to the next level of achievement and opportunity.

As anyone who has wrestled knows, the life lessons are as indelible as the relationships and the bonds formed through toil, challenge, and sweat. I will always be there for any of my wrestlers and my relationship with the sport will merely be morphing rather than ending as I expect to don the official's stripes once more in November.

I will cherish the memories, be a friend to the sport, and value every component of my wrestling life for the duration. It has been a wild, beautiful, extraordinary ride that I continue to believe is life-altering for anyone who dares to strive greatly. If you are brave enough to give all that you have to a singular purpose which is always earned but never promised, then you have the courage for any task that life demands.

I'll see you matside.

-David Wilkerson

What an extraordinary day. I got to bed at 3am after leaving VA Beach at 10:30, so a full recap may have to be post-nap. Suffice it to say, we are incredibly proud and three state place winners is almost certainly a school record.

We are ready.

A lot of work by a lot of committed individuals has gone into the culminating experience that is the state championship.

No matter the outcome, our journey toward competitiveness, respectability, and the reality that champions can be manufactured at CHS, has been an unmitigated success.

As to the outcome, we'll see you in VA Beach at 8am when the first whistle blows.

We are ready.