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Missouri high school girls' wrestling
MSHSAA has crowned girls' state champions in Missouri since 2019. 3,135 girls wrestled here in 2025-26, at 245 schools.
By Joe Spisak, Pennsylvania state champion and 4x NCAA qualifier at Virginia · Published September 3, 2026
The association
Sanctioned
- Association
- MSHSAA
- Girls' championship
- Yes, first held in 2019
- Format
- A separate girls' championship, its own event
- Source
- mshsaa.org, read 2026-09-03
What the record shows
The 2019 year is confirmed by the MSHSAA's own count: the February 2027 event is billed as the 9th MSHSAA Girls Wrestling Championships, which counts back to 2019, and the MSHSAA voted to sanction in 2018 for the 2018-19 season. Weight classes re-read 2026-09-20: The MSHSAA 2026-27 manual keeps the 14 class girls set and requires it at freshman and JV level too; pooling wrestlers close in weight is not permitted. The girls growth allowance is added December 25.
The 2026-27 Missouri championship carries the dates, the venue, and the qualifying path.
How many girls wrestle in Missouri
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 148 more girls than 2024-25, up 5 percent.
Weight classes
MSHSAA uses the NFHS 14 class girls' set for 2026-27. The NFHS offers three, and a state association picks one and cannot switch mid-season.
- 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 MSHSAA decides whether and when it applies, so a bracket later in the season may read 2 pounds higher than this. Read off mshsaa.org on 2026-09-20. 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 MSHSAA decides whether and when it applies.
“A 2-pound growth allowance shall be added to each weight class on December 25 (Girls) and January 1 (Boys).”
From mshsaa.org, the 2026-27 document, read 2026-09-29.
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 MSHSAA 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 MSHSAA weigh-in rules. Ask your coach for the season bulletin.
If she weighs in above her plan
We have not yet read the MSHSAA weigh-in rules. Ask your coach for the season bulletin.
What to do if your school has no girls' team
MSHSAA publishes a rule for this. The MSHSAA publishes no wrestling specific rule for a girl at a school with no girls team. The general path is cooperative sponsorship, where the board of directors may approve combining two or three member high schools into one program.
From mshsaa.org, 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 MSHSAA 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 Missouri 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 Missouri wrestler goes from here.
College in the state
8 colleges here sponsor women's wrestling, from the directory built off each school's own athletics staff page.
- LindenwoodNCAA D1
- William JewellNCAA D2
- Westminster (MO)NCAA D3
- Avila UniversityNAIA
- Central Methodist UniversityNAIA
- Missouri Baptist UniversityNAIA
- Missouri Valley CollegeNAIA
- William Woods UniversityNAIA
Wrestlers from Missouri
3 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 MSHSAA's own pages and the NFHS participation survey, and parts of it were re-read since, most recently on 2026-09-29. 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, "Missouri girls HS wrestling", https://womenswrestlingclub.com/high-school/mo, checked 2026-09-29.
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