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The wintertime precocious schoolhouse sports play is good underway successful Ohio, including 1 of nan fastest-growing sports successful nan federation — girls wrestling.
Last month, Cleveland.com featured nan top girls wrestlers successful Northeast Ohio entering nan 2025-26 season.
Here are 25 of nan champion girls wrestlers crossed nan state, sloppy of weight people and region.
Note: Records are from TrackWrestling entering nan 2025-26 season.
TOP 25 OHIO GIRLS WRESTLERS TO WATCH
Riley Alborn, jr., Carrollton
Alborn has stood connected nan medals podium doubly astatine nan authorities championships, placing 4th arsenic a freshman and 3rd past season. She has an 86-7 precocious schoolhouse record.
Deionna Borders, sr., Berea Midpark
Borders has go 1 of nan nation’s champion heavyweights, improving from a seventh-place decorativeness astatine her first authorities tourney to 3rd arsenic a sophomore to winning nan title pinch a 47-0 grounds past season. She is 117-10 successful precocious school. She added a Fargo Junior 235-pound title successful July and precocious won nan Women of Ironman.
Ashlynn Brokaw, jr., Mount Vernon
Brokaw won nan 105-pound authorities title past season, adding it to her third-place decorativeness successful nan aforesaid bracket arsenic a freshman and improving to 88-8 overall.
Mackenzie Carder, jr., Olentangy Orange
Carder has been 1 of nan state’s champion wrestlers nan past two-plus years (81-4 done 2 seasons), but she has nan misfortune of being successful nan aforesaid weight people arsenic Steubenville’s Talea Guntrum, losing to her successful nan 110-pound authorities last arsenic a freshman and nan 120 last successful March. She placed 2nd astatine Fargo Junior Nationals astatine 115, 3rd astatine 118 astatine Super 32 successful October and 2nd astatine December’s Women of Ironman.
Natalie Carlisle, sr., Lebanon
Carlisle mislaid a heartbreaker to Bellbrook’s Jada Weiss successful past season’s 155-pound authorities final, falling successful sudden-victory overtime to reason a 43-6 season. She placed eighth arsenic a sophomore and entered this play pinch an 83-17 record.
GG Dominish, so., Perry
Dominish won 2 regular-season tournaments and a territory title arsenic a freshman earlier concluding nan play pinch a third-place decorativeness astatine authorities astatine 105 pounds, giving her a 42-6 record.
Carolyn Geckler, so., Perry
Geckler entered her freshman twelvemonth caller disconnected winning a U15 Pan American title, and she romped done nan 115-pound division, becoming Perry’s first woman to triumph a authorities title and finishing nan play 41-2. She added a 16U 120 title astatine Fargo successful July and won astatine Women of Ironman successful December.
Bella Graziani, sr., Tinora
Graziani doubly had her authorities title hopes dashed by Jackson’s Makennah Craft, losing to her successful nan quarterfinals arsenic a freshman and successful past season’s 100-pound last arsenic Craft completed her four-time title run. Graziani placed sixth arsenic a sophomore and entered this play pinch a 103-19 record.
Camryn Gresham, jr., Lakota East
Gresham hit Bella Graziani successful nan fifth-place lucifer astatine authorities arsenic a freshman, past came backmost past play and rolled done nan 110-pound bracket, completing a 41-0 play pinch a 4-1 determination complete Marysville’s Cami Leng.
Talea Guntrum, jr., Steubenville
Gentrum went undefeated arsenic a freshman successful winning her first authorities title arsenic a 110-pounder, past bounced backmost from a nonaccomplishment to Chippewa’s Kayla Moroschan astatine nan Mentor territory meet to triumph a 2nd authorities title — this 1 astatine 120, again beating Mackenzie Carder of Olentangy Orange successful nan last — and amended to 88-4 successful precocious school.
Lily Hendricks, jr., Greenview
Hendricks wrestled for a authorities title each of her first 2 seasons, falling successful nan 125-pound last arsenic a freshman and to Lincoln’s KyLee Tibbs successful a 15-12 determination successful nan 140 last successful March. She entered her inferior play 87-9 overall.
Kelsey King, sr., Lakota West
King placed seventh astatine authorities astatine 135 pounds arsenic a freshman, past mislaid successful nan first information arsenic a sophomore earlier defaulting because of wounded successful nan consolation bracket. She came backmost past play to return down nan section astatine 125, pinning Lila Krull of Miamisburg successful 41 seconds successful nan last to complete a 41-2 play that pushed her precocious schoolhouse grounds to 89-9.
Lacie Knick, sr., Olentangy Orange
Knick reached nan finals astatine her first 2 authorities tournaments, losing successful nan 120-pound last arsenic a freshman and winning nan 125 title arsenic a sophomore. She entered past season’s authorities tourney undefeated but mislaid to East Liverpool’s Paige Cowan successful nan quarterfinals, yet placing 4th to springiness her an 118-5 record.
Lila Krull, jr., Miamisburg
Krull placed eighth astatine authorities astatine 125 pounds arsenic a freshman. She returned astatine nan aforesaid weight people successful March and reached nan final, falling to Lakota West’s Kelsey King. She had a 62-13 grounds entering this season.
Vivi Legato, so., Archbold
Legato won 7 tournaments during her freshman play and reached nan semifinals astatine 155 pounds astatine her first authorities tourney earlier finishing 3rd pinch a 49-5 record.
Cami Leng, jr., Marysville
Leng’s older sister Cali was a two-time authorities champion, and Cami has had 2 cracks astatine winning her first, losing successful nan 115-pound last arsenic a freshman and nan 110 last to Camryn Graham of Lakota East successful March — her only nonaccomplishment of nan play arsenic she enters her inferior twelvemonth pinch a 72-4 record. Leng placed eighth successful nan 16U 120 bracket astatine Fargo Nationals successful July.
Elizabeth Madison, sr., Loveland
Madison’s hopes of becoming a four-time champion ended successful nan first information of March’s 170-pound last arsenic Findlay’s Kate Simmons pinned her successful 82 seconds — her only nonaccomplishment of nan play and conscionable nan 2nd successful 105 precocious schoolhouse matches.
Maddie Miller, sr., Indian Lake
Miller made history astatine nan authorities championships past season, pursuing becoming her school’s first female territory champion by reaching nan 235-pound final, losing to Deionna Borders of Berea Midpark but becoming nan school’s first authorities placer. She vanished 4th astatine 207 astatine Fargo Junior Nationals successful July and entered this play pinch a 70-15 record.
Kayla Moroschan, jr., Chippewa
Moroschan won nan 120-pound authorities title arsenic a freshman, but her hopes of repeating were dashed by Olentangy Orange’s Mackenzie Carder successful a 4-1 determination successful nan semifinals. She placed third, improving her grounds to 93-7.
Libertie Nigh, jr., Urbana
The early is agleam for Nigh, who improved from a third-place decorativeness astatine 100 pounds arsenic a freshman to reaching nan 105 last past season, giving up a takedown to Mount Vernon’s Ashlynn Brokaw pinch 39 seconds near that erased her 5-4 lead. She escaped seconds later but couldn’t people again successful a 7-6 defeat. She entered this play pinch a 71-8 record.
Kandice Spry, sr., Tri-Valley
Spry made it to her first authorities meet arsenic a sophomore, placing 3rd astatine 115 pounds. She returned successful March successful nan aforesaid weight people and knocked disconnected territory champion Maycee Adams of Eaton successful nan semifinals earlier falling to Perry’s Carolyn Geckler successful nan final. She opened her elder play pinch a 105-19 record, past reached nan Women of Ironman 125 last earlier losing to Geckler again by an 11-0 awesome decision.
Alora Strauser, sr., Archbishop Alter
Strauser qualified for authorities each of her first 2 seasons but grounded to scope nan badge rounds. Last season, she battled done nan 130-pound bracket to scope nan final, wherever she mislaid to two-time champion Kira Cole of Miami East 9-3. She entered her last play pinch an 85-26 record.
Ella Thomas, jr., Poland Seminary
Thomas looks to build disconnected 2 podium finishes astatine authorities astatine 100 pounds — 4th arsenic a freshman and 3rd successful March — aft placing 4th astatine Fargo Junior Nationals astatine 100 and reaching December’s Women of Ironman final, wherever she mislaid to U17 Worlds bronze medalist Madison Healey of Wyoming Seminary. She has an 84-6 grounds successful precocious school.
KyLee Tibbs, jr., Gahanna Lincoln
Tibbs precocious to nan 140-pound last each of her first 2 authorities championships, pinch her nonaccomplishment arsenic a freshman fueling a 47-0 sophomore run that culminated pinch a 15-12 determination complete Greeneview’s Lily Hendricks successful nan title match. Tibbs placed seventh astatine Fargo Junior Nationals astatine 155 successful July and entered this play pinch an 87-4 record.
Brooklyn Whited, so., Logan
Whited’s freshman play included a title astatine nan Iron Maiden tourney among her 49 victories, pinch her nonaccomplishment to Alliance’s Abigail Mozden successful nan 135-pound authorities last conscionable her 2nd of nan season.
