Ava Bayless Season 2024-25

2024-2025 Redshirt Sophomore at Iowa

• Season record of 33-5
• Overall dual record of 7-1
• Earned 21 tech falls and seven pins, including the fastest fall of her career in 20 seconds
• Scored 35 points in dual competition 
• 2025 Grand View Open Champion
• 2025 NCWWC Regionals Champion
• 4th at 2025 NCWWC Tournament 
• 6-3 against ranked opponents 
• NWCA Scholastic All-American
• 2nd at 50 kg at U23 National Championship
• 2025 Pan American Bronze Medalist
• 7th at 50 kg at US Open
• Letterwinner

2023-2024 Redshirt Freshman at Iowa

• Season record of 31-1 
• 12-1 against ranked opponents
• Ranked nationally in the top five of her weight class for the entire season
• 2023 Soldier Salute Champion
• 2024 NCWWC Region Five Champion
• 2024 NCWWC National Champion
• Undefeated dual record of 12-0
• Scored 46 points in dual competition
• Earned 21 technical falls and two pins
• January student-athlete of the month
• President’s List and Dean’s List honoree
• NWCA Scholastic All-American
• Big Ten Distinguished Scholar
• Academic all-Big Ten
• Letterwinner

2022-2023 Unattached

• Third place at 2022 Soldier Salute
• 2023 Bearcat Open champion
• 6th place at U20 National Championship in 2023
• 7th place at 2023 US Open Wrestling Championship

High School

• Ranked No. 12 recruit nationally at 112 pounds
• Two-time GIRLS Prep Wrestling champion
• National Prep All-American at Wyoming Seminary
• Placed seventh at the 2021 U23 World Team Trials
• Placed fifth at 2021 Junior Fargo
• Placed fourth at the 2021 Junior World Team Trials
• Placed first at the 2019 Flatz open in Austria
• Placed first at the 2019 Tallinn Open in Estonia
• Earned bronze at the 2019 Vorobyeva Cup in Russia
• Runner-up at the 2019 Super 32
• Finished second in 2018 and third in 2019 at the Cadet World Team Trials

Personal

• Born October 8, 2003
• Daughter of Annese and Sean Bayless
• Majoring in Human Physiology