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All-American (2007)
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NCAA Qualifier (2007, 2010)
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First-Team All-Ivy (2010)
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Second-Team All-Ivy (2008)
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Sheridan Award (2008) (EIWA Tournament Award for Most Falls in Least Amount of Time)
At Cornell:
2008-09: At 197 pounds, Arnone had a 2-1 record at the Southern Scuffle before having to withdraw due to injury. He notched a 12-0 major decision over Bloomburg’s Shaw in his second match of the tournament.
2007-08: Arnone returned from injury to wrestle for Cornell at 184 pounds. He compiled a 6-1 dual record, and earned second-team All-Ivy honors. Arnone pinned his first two opponents before medical forfeiting to sixth place at the EIWA Tournament. After pinning Franklin & Marshall’s Daniel Canfield in 2:56 and Columbia’s Kenji Porter in 2:23, Arnone won the EIWA’s Sheridan Award for recording the most falls in the least amount of time in the championship bracket of the tournament.
2006-07: Arnone opened the season at the UB Open and won the title at 184 pounds with three victories. He was sidelined for a majority of the winter due to illness. In his second dual match of the season, Arnone upset Penn’s No. 13-ranked Lior Zamir, pinning him in 4:59 to help the Big Red secure its fifth-straight Ivy title. Arnone entered the EIWA tournament a No. 6 seed, and met Columbia’s Justin Barent in the first round. Arnone avenged a dual match loss to Barent by scoring a 12-1 major decision when it counted the most. Harvard’s Louis Caputo defeated Arnone in the quarterfinals, 4-2, but Arnone wrestled his way back to the third-place match with a victory over Zamir for the second time. To capture third, and an automatic bid to nationals, Arnone won a 5-1 decision over Lehigh’s David Craig. At the NCAA tournament, Arnone upset the No. 3 seed, Mike Pucillo (Ohio State), 3-1, to advance to the quarterfinals where he lost to the No. 6 seed, Jake Varner (Iowa State). In the wrestlebacks, Arnone pinned Indiana’s Marc Bennett to secure his first All-America honor.
2005-06: Arnone went 5-1 during his rookie campaign. He was the No. 6 seed at the Body Bar Invitational and went on to take third place after defeating the third and fourth seeds.
Prior to Cornell:
Arnone was a five-time letter winner at Honesdale HS. He finished seventh at the state championships in 2001 and improved on that in 2004, making the finals and finishing second. As a senior, he won the Pennsylvania state championship. He was also a sixth-place finisher at the Greco-Roman national championships.
Personal:
Joshua Arnone is the son of Joseph and Teresa Arnone and he is studying Human Development in Cornell's College of Human Ecology. He has four brothers, three older and one younger.
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