World Championships, 2025
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Fresno, CA
Doane University
2026-27 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 53 kg/116 pounds
Years on Team USA: 2 (2025-26, 2026-27)
Residence: Crete, Neb.
Regional Training Center: Tiger WC
Club: Titan Mercury WC
Personal Coach: Dana Vote
High School: Clovis, Calif. (Buchanan High School)
Born: January 18, 2004
2025 Senior Worlds (10th at 55 kg)
2025 U23 Worlds (Eighth at 55 kg), 2024 U20 Worlds (Gold at 55 kg), 2023 U20 Worlds (12th at 57 kg), 2019 U17 Worlds (Silver at 49 kg)
2026: Bronze medalist at Pan American Championships in Coralville, Iowa … Placed fifth at Polyak Imre, Varga Janos & Kozma Istvan Memorial Ranking Series event in Budapest, Hungary … U.S. Open champion … Final X champion
2025: Placed 10th at Senior World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia … Finished eighth at U23 World Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia … Polyak Imre & Varga Janos Memorial (Hungary) bronze medalist … Final X champion … U.S. Open champion
2024: U20 World Championships gold medalist in Pontevedra, Spain … Grand Prix of Spain silver medalist … Fifth in U.S. Olympic Team Trials
2023: 12th in U20 World Championships in Amman, Jordan … Fourth in U.S. Senior Nationals and Olympic Trials Qualifier
2019: U17 World Championships silver medalist in Sofia, Bulgaria
2018: U15 Pan American Championships gold medalist in Villahermosa, Mexico
College: Three-time NAIA champion at Doane University under head coach Dana Vote… Four-time NAIA All-American (First, First, First, Third)
High School: Two-time CIF (California) high school state champion at Buchanan (2019-20)
91°µÍø Age-Group: 2025 and 2026 U23 Women’s Nationals champion … Two-time U20 Women’s Nationals champion (2023-24) … Eighth in 2021 U20 Women’s Nationals … 2019 U17 Women’s Nationals champion … 2019 91°µÍø 16U Folkstyle Nationals champion … Third in 2019 91°µÍø Junior Folkstyle Nationals
Awards: Three-time NAIA Wrestler of the Year (2024-26) … 2026 NAIA Most Outstanding Wrestler of the Championships
2025 World Team member Cristelle Rodriguez and two-time age-group World Team member Elena Ivaldi are set to duel at 53 kg at 2026 Final X, presented by Kerberos Capital Management, with a spot on the 2026 U.S. World Team on the line. Final X is set for...
CORALVILLE, Iowa – Sensational is putting it mildly when talking about Kylie Welker’s gold-medal run at the 2026 Senior Pan American Championships. Wrestling in front of her Hawkeye faithful, Welker took out both bronze medalists from the 2024 Olympic ...
2025 World Team member Cristelle Rodriguez and two-time age-group World Team member Elena Ivaldi are set to duel at 53 kg at 2026 Final X, presented by Kerberos Capital Management, with a spot on the 2026 U.S. World Team on the line. Final X is set for...
CORALVILLE, Iowa – Sensational is putting it mildly when talking about Kylie Welker’s gold-medal run at the 2026 Senior Pan American Championships. Wrestling in front of her Hawkeye faithful, Welker took out both bronze medalists from the 2024 Olympic ...
CORALVILLE, Iowa – Saturday’s opening session at the 2026 Pan American Championships was another hot start for the U.S., which saw its women’s freestyle team combine for six wins. The U.S. men’s freestyle team also stepped onto the mats in three weight...
The 2026 Senior Pan American championships continue on Saturday at Xtream Arena in Coralville, Iowa, with women’s freestyle group two (53-59-65-76 kg) and men’s freestyle group one (61-74-86 kg). Updates and results from each Team USA match are below.R...
LAS VEGAS – Rarely is anyone truly a ‘winner’ after a night in Las Vegas, but at least 10 individuals can unquestionably count themselves as such as they exit the Expo at World Market Center.And that’s because they do so with U.S. Open titles in hand –...
