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Colorado high school girls' wrestling
CHSAA has crowned girls' state champions in Colorado since 2021. 1,751 girls wrestled here in 2025-26, at 165 schools.
By Joe Spisak, Pennsylvania state champion and 4x NCAA qualifier at Virginia · Published September 3, 2026
The association
Sanctioned
- Association
- CHSAA
- Girls' championship
- Yes, first held in 2021
- Format
- Girls' divisions inside the state wrestling championships
- Source
- chsaanow.com, read 2026-09-03
What the record shows
CHSAA's championship archive lists girls wrestling team titles starting in 2021. Statewide girls tournaments were run in 2019 and 2020 but were not CHSAA sanctioned. Girls wrestling split into 4A and 5A classifications in 2025. Weight classes re-read 2026-09-22: no 2026-27 bulletin found on https://chsaanow.com/sports/wrestling/info as of 2026-09-22; the bulletin link there opens the October 2025 bulletin, and CHSAA has said the 2026-27 bulletin posts by October 1, 2026. That October 2025 bulletin reads: "Girls competition shall be divided into 14 weight classes as follows: 100-105-110-115-120-125-130-135-140-145-155-170-190-235". It replaces the undated approved weight classes sheet, a file created in September 2024, as this row's source. Recheck after October 1.
The 2026-27 Colorado championship carries the dates, the venue, and the qualifying path.
How many girls wrestle in Colorado
The NFHS High School Athletics Participation Survey, girls' wrestling column. Every number here is the survey's own; nothing is estimated or carried forward.
That is 425 more girls than 2024-25, up 32.1 percent.
Weight classes
CHSAA uses the NFHS 14 class girls' set. The NFHS offers three, and a state association picks one and cannot switch mid-season. That is the 2025-26 set. As of 2026-09-22 CHSAA had not posted its 2026-27 classes; states re-pick among the three sets each year, so the season bulletin your coach has is the final word until it does.
- 100
- 105
- 110
- 115
- 120
- 125
- 130
- 135
- 140
- 145
- 155
- 170
- 190
- 235
Scratch weights, in pounds. The NFHS book lets 2 pounds be added to each class after certification as a growth allowance (4-4-4), and the CHSAA decides whether and when it applies, so a bracket later in the season may read 2 pounds higher than this. Read off docs.google.com on 2026-09-22. The weight classes page puts this beside the NCAA, NAIA and international weights.
Growth allowance
The NFHS book says a growth allowance of 2 pounds "may be added to each weight class any time after the date of certification" (4-4-4). The CHSAA decides whether and when it applies.
The CHSAA sets when it applies; see its rules at chsaanow.com, or ask your coach for the season bulletin.
Consecutive-day allowance
On consecutive days of team competition, the NFHS book grants every wrestler 1 pound a day, up to 2 pounds, when the opponent has been given at least 48 hours' notice (4-5-5). The CHSAA decides whether and when it applies and can add conditions of its own; what its documents say is below.
We have not yet read the CHSAA weigh-in rules. Ask your coach for the season bulletin.
If she weighs in above her plan
We have not yet read the CHSAA weigh-in rules. Ask your coach for the season bulletin.
What to do if your school has no girls' team
CHSAA publishes a rule for this. If a school fields only a boys team in a sport, girls are permitted to qualify for that boys team. Once the school fields both a boys and a girls team in the same sport, a girl may no longer qualify for the boys team.
From s3.amazonaws.com, read 2026-09-03. The rule is the association's to change; the link goes to the page that will carry the change.
The general path, in the order that works: ask the athletic director first, in writing, whether the school will enter you and under what rule. Most schools have never been asked, and the answer to a written question goes on the record in a way a hallway conversation does not. If the school will not enter you, ask CHSAA directly what a student in your position may do; associations answer these, and the answer is the one that binds your school.
Train while you sort it out. A club room is where most girls in a state without a school team actually wrestle, and club season runs when the school season does not. The clubs in Colorado are listed by city, with the girls' rooms and girls' practices flagged where the club says so.
Where it goes next
The state final is not the end of the line. These are the two places a Colorado wrestler goes from here.
College in the state
3 colleges here sponsor women's wrestling, from the directory built off each school's own athletics staff page.
- Adams StateNCAA D2
- Colorado MesaNCAA D2
- Western ColoradoNCAA D2
Wrestlers from Colorado
5 women in the record we keep grew up here. Their careers started in a room like the one down the road.
Before the season starts
A girl's legal minimum wrestling weight is built on the 19 percent body fat floor the NFHS sets for girls, not the boys' 7 percent. That is roughly sixteen pounds of difference for a fifteen year old, and every app built on the boys' number gets it wrong. How making weight works covers certification and what your state enforces at the scale, and when wrestling season starts has the year month by month and the first practice dates we have read off the associations' own pages.
This page was read on 2026-09-03, off CHSAA's own pages and the NFHS participation survey, and parts of it were re-read since, most recently on 2026-09-22. Associations change rules in the spring and post the new ones late; the links here go to the page that will carry the change first.
Cite this data
Checked
Women's Wrestling Club, "Colorado girls HS wrestling", https://womenswrestlingclub.com/high-school/co, checked 2026-09-22.
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