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Massachusetts high school girls' wrestling
MIAA has crowned girls' state champions in Massachusetts since 2019. 479 girls wrestled here in 2025-26.
By Joe Spisak, Pennsylvania state champion and 4x NCAA qualifier at Virginia · Published September 3, 2026
The association
Sanctioned
- Association
- MIAA
- Girls' championship
- Yes, first held in 2019
- Format
- Girls' divisions inside the state wrestling championships
- Source
- miaa.net, read 2026-09-03
What the record shows
Sources conflict on the first year and the association's own record wins. The MIAA girls all-state champions record starts at 2019 and the MIAA set the inaugural girls wrestling tournament for February 23, 2019. A graphic hosted on the MIAA site but produced elsewhere says 2020 and mislabels the Massachusetts row, so it was not used. The record notes no individual tournament in 2021. Weight classes re-read 2026-10-11 from the MIAA's final 2026-27 wrestling format, dated June 17, 2026 and linked from its Tournament Formats page, which replaced the March draft read 2026-09-20: it keeps the 12 class set for the Girls All-State Tournament (100, 107, 114, 120, 126, 132, 138, 145, 152, 165, 185, 235) and 14 classes for the mixed gender tournament. New England sets re-read 2026-09-29: the CIAC's 2025-26 information packet says the other New England states adopted its 13 girls' classes, the 12 plus 285; this MIAA format prints 12 with no 285 for the Girls All-State Tournament. The two documents disagree; this page prints the MIAA's.
The 2026-27 Massachusetts championship carries the dates, the venue, and the qualifying path.
How many girls wrestle in Massachusetts
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 126 more girls than 2024-25, up 35.7 percent.
Weight classes
MIAA uses the NFHS 12 class girls' set for 2026-27. The NFHS offers three, and a state association picks one and cannot switch mid-season.
- 100
- 107
- 114
- 120
- 126
- 132
- 138
- 145
- 152
- 165
- 185
- 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 MIAA decides whether and when it applies, so a bracket later in the season may read 2 pounds higher than this. Read off miaa.net on 2026-10-11. 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 MIAA decides whether and when it applies.
The MIAA sets when it applies; see its rules at miaa.net, 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 MIAA 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 MIAA weigh-in rules. Ask your coach for the season bulletin.
If she weighs in above her plan
We have not yet read the MIAA weigh-in rules. Ask your coach for the season bulletin.
What to do if your school has no girls' team
MIAA publishes a rule for this. Girls wrestle on their school's regular wrestling team and declare into the MIAA girls postseason, entering both the mixed gender sectional and the girls divisional state tournament. Where a school cannot field a team at all, two or more schools may apply to the host school's district athletic committee to form a cooperative team.
From miaa.net, 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 MIAA 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 Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts wrestler goes from here.
College in the state
2 colleges here sponsor women's wrestling, from the directory built off each school's own athletics staff page.
- Springfield CollegeNCAA D3
- Western New EnglandNCAA D3
Wrestlers from Massachusetts
2 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 MIAA's own pages and the NFHS participation survey, and parts of it were re-read since, most recently on 2026-10-11. 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, "Massachusetts girls HS wrestling", https://womenswrestlingclub.com/high-school/ma, checked 2026-10-11.
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